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Where I work the carrot and stick is real. The bench fucking sucks lol. I've seen good people passed up too many times. I was lucky and my boss quit, and I was the only TM who asked for the job while the kids on the bench were sitting around waiting to be asked. So no bench, no bullshit, just...

Sorry, that one sounds difficult. My approach, and I've only had to do this twice, is that the TM would absolutely not be allowed to just walk away after going off, but would have to wait in TMSC for myself and another leader (hopefully their leader) for a witness to the coaching. Outlining how...

Depends on volume. If you're just now getting a FOTL maybe it's doable? But when you have 20+ TMs to chase around and your store is struggling, it's already the hardest job in the store aside from Market TL (imo). I'd love to be able to break away and help the rest of the store, but the first...

I about threw up at the 3% I got, legitimately made me nauseous. Doesn't help that I got 6% last year and I know I work smarter now. I'll give it some time but my initial reaction is that I will absolutely not work as hard this year. Most of my peers seemed to think their 3% was okay. At least...

You've probably noticed this, but things have gotten worse since you left with payroll and expectations. And the raises again don't keep up with cost of housing and food, not even close. Definitely headed on the KMart path.

Well it isn't much but that's still nice to hear it's going in the right direction

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/21/target-doubles-bonuses-for-salaried-employees-as-profits-recover-.html Interesting. Headline is a little misleading because as I understand, their bonuses are basically recovering from last year's cut. Of course this pisses me off knowing I'll likely be getting...

Style in our store is often neglected and I really feel for them. I try not to pull them for OPUs because of this but it still happens. It seems like we're doing a special kind of chasing our tail where style gets screwed until there are 60 repacks stacked to the sky and we absolutely have to...

TTOG, thank you for the opportunity to train my gag reflex to levels only witnessed in the porn industry. Your multi-textured masterpiece was too good for a simple toilet. For thirty minutes I experienced your world, and your diet, in a way that I will never forget. Though I don't know you and...

I think it's mostly Fulfillment causing the problems that are pushing stores from "struggling with modernization" unpleasantness over the edge into "jfc it's all broken." If 15-20% of your sales require so much extra labor (D/U, FF, backups) and there are no fees to make up for it and you're...

Wow, our schedule is made to be bare bones (which is already ridiculous) but at least people can get all the OT they want these last couple weeks. That's crap.

Wow we have days in the low 90s which is crazy enough. I wonder if your district manager cares at all. Ours would be calling the SD every 5 minutes.

This one got me the other night. A game was advertised for $10 down from $60. Wasn't correct in the system though it was correct by shelf label and by zebra scan as being on sale. So I rang it up unidentified and asked the electronics dude to inventory audit one off. Only way I could think of.

You have to watch your cart flow into OPU hold space and play it by ear. Store Directors and ETLs are not as highly-tuned to the workflow and will pull the trigger on this too early, hurting your productivity. I have 4 OPU pack stations and they can't really be shared efficiently, so I'm...

Great post to consider for the influx of seasonal kids, thanks

Rocking a sold 9% OPU inf every day now. SFS somehow still super green. Freight is destroying us, and corporate knows. Not sure why they're intentionally tanking sales. First they killed guest service and now they're okay with massive bottlenecks of merch...this is getting dumber by the day. A...

I left the store tonight with 7.8% INF in OPU. For the week we're high 6. I almost shat myself when I saw that. Yours couldn't be worse could it?

They want me to focus on pick speed and INF. Yeah, that's mostly what we do lol. Super helpful strategy. Realistically the store is in bad enough shape that all I can do is convince my team that their efforts represent Fulfillment doing our part to fix things, by communicating INFs so I can...

This is a cool idea! Some of my TMs would love this. Others would be upset about missing their bag & chill time at the stations lol.

Yeah, but depending on the state of style breakout, even with RFID it can still take 5 minutes to find something from a pile of repacks or the dreaded panty boxes lol. The lack of RFID guns (3 in the store, though 1 is lost) make it tough because my team is always using them.