Recent content by prim07

Ex-logistics executive (not sure what they call that nowadays). I was noticing the same as you. Dwindling payroll, increased expectations, etc. I went to college for Accounting, Target made me an offer and like any college kid, having a job lined up direct out of college is something you jump...

Bonuses will depend on your pay due to it being a percentage. Usually around 1k-3k depending on your review and company performance + current pay. Of course the government likes to take almost half of that away from you (40% tax on bonuses) so you don't really see your entire bonus. STLs in high...

Are you an ETL? I responded to a question regarding why I left that you can find here. I sat down with my STL and simply told him/her that I received a new job opportunity that aligned with my long term career goals that I simply couldn't pass up. I told them that while it wasn't an easy...

I can't say confidently I put in 60 hours, nor is that the norm. On average it's more like 50 hour work weeks. (40 one week, 60 the next, alternating). Depends on the STL, where I'm at now the ETLs work closer to ~45/50 hours a week. I don't really look at it in that perspective, I'm more...

When I term someone, I stay on top of them and nickel and dime them for every mistake. Because it takes far too long between serious issues to fire someone who clearly isn't a right fit and is eating up hours. For instance, I had a TM who was constantly late and moved at a slow pace. So I pulled...

Speaking for myself personally, if I'm on the salesfloor I chat/work professionally. Sometimes we'll have casual conversations but they're moving conversations toward some place we need to be. Speaking on the other ETLs in my building, what you describe takes place. It annoys me too and it was a...

Yes, there's one in logistics, one on salesfloor, and one up front. Experience is nothing special really, they just work once a week for limited hours doing something in their scope. As far as working with agencies, they work with the ADA. I was never a part of the hiring process, I...

Logistics is chocolate because we get shit on, that's all I could really tell you. Salesfloor would be birthday cake since they have to have a happy and excited attitude out of everyone to be a model for their salesfloor TMs. HR is vanilla, just plain and nothing special. AP is Neapolian, a...

I don't doubt favoritism exists. During performance discussion sit-ins I've been a part of, that just wasn't the case.

Haven't been in a store where favoritism came into play during reviews. But we all usually know who our tops and bottoms are, and most of the time our bottoms would stay on the bottom but more because they had too little/no improvement to be able to bump them up a performance level. Overall I've...

We didn't have a say on amounts, but we had a say on how we rated our TLs. And that played into how significant or not of a raise they'd receive. We'd have a meeting once a year and essentially rate/review each TL effectiveness that year.

Stopped caring. Long story short the ETLs in my store never seemed to care too much and my STL never set an expectation nor held them to one. So I started to question where the motivation was for me to continuously put in 10+hrs a day just to keep the store running when the rest of the ETLs left...

I can't say if that's just a coincidence or what, but I see your point. But I've met quite a few STLs/ETLs who aren't covergirls. At some point, you need some sense.

Didn't really run into that.

At my store, we have that sort of situation where we have less TMs for certain work centers and give them 40hrs a week. The issue is when they call out and we run into issues replacing the shift. That's probably one reason.