I was encouraged to use up my vacation time when I left. My husband and I went on a long-overdue visit to friends made possible by homework that could be done remotely.
My best friend lives in proximity of the new store being built in one of our suburbs. It's much closer to her home than other Targets in the area, and she is a big fan of Spot. She has been asking about its opening day a lot.
Because my store is training many of the new store's team...
We are in the same complex as a Cermak grocery store, and their carts end up in our corrals as much as ours end up in theirs. The difference? Theirs are covered. Every so often we also find cards from the Dollar Tree across the parking lot.
We had an ETL who was fired for sexual harassment of same-sex team members. He also hovered over my husband a lot but never said anything of that nature to him--probably because we both worked at the same store at the time. I had worked for him when he was a TL at a different store and I was...
Drat. That ELOA was great for those of us who went on study abroad (I went to Ireland for Irish language school for 3 weeks one summer). That's a huge problem. I start clinicals in November and was thinking that might be an option if things got tight with that.
Of course, I was in good...
Barg. We switched our FDC delivery from evening to morning a few weeks ago. It has been a huge mess, particularly in dairy and frozen. I had to cut back my work schedule to evenings only during the week because of school, and now only do Monday and Friday evenings in Pfresh, and Sat-Sun...
I am closing open market this week. All of the bananas we had last night were within hours of banana bread quality. We have no bagged salads or organic leafy greens. I had a guest about throw a tantrum because we didn't have any spring mix. (and she turned out to be pretty needy and beggy in...
Same with the Progresso, Pringles, Boom Chicka Pop, Sweet Baby Ray's, ketchup, and a whole lot of transition as we are due for remodel starting next week in our department. (The beer coolers are already installed, though.)
This makes a little sense as vinegar is the mordant for Easter egg dyes, and we ran out of vinegar during the panic because people use it as a cleaning agent. However, backstocking it is a royal pain.
We put our GM team overnight for the most part. A few of our F&B team chose overnight. I did a hard pass because I do not do well physically during that time period. Then I was pretty much given an ultimatum of overnight or lose hours.
I think I was able to work out a compromise, with my...
It's a horrid time for us to be nearing our reset/remodel period, isn't it? Our beer coolers are in finally. But the shelves are a hot mess with all the flexing we have done lately. Our newer TMs ran with the directive "don't backstock" long after we started backstocking again. Our FBTL was...
A few of our older TMs have taken LOAs. One of my coworkers is on a 14-day quarantine. Nothing confirmed for Covid-19.
I got sent home early one day because I was sweating and had a dry throat. It turned out I had too many Pepsi Max in a short period of time and it was nearly caffeine OD.
I did OM on Saturday evening. I was able to get the chicken bunker mostly filled, as well as the custom chicken in the meat shelf. Lots of bacon as well. Very little produce and what did come in, went out. I made sure bananas were filled for the morning. I was told we were expecting 150...