My HR told my coworker that I will be considered tech/electronics lead & there will be a beauty lead. Both of us also get raises, but another LOD said otherwise.
Some of the truck unload team pushes. Take u-boat, replace it with empty one, push product, swap for one that now has product on it, etc, until the unload is done.
Depends on head count. Don’t expect a raise until review time.
Like the other person said, you have a few TMs pushing uboats and swap them around as you empty them. That’s why the custom block papers are supposed to be removable
Doesn't work. We start our unload 2 hours before anyone arrives to push anything, and we don't have enough U-boats to get through those 2 hours without having to move to pallets or other vehicles. We could order more U-boats.. but there's no room for them. No room for the ones we fill, no room for the empty ones. This is with maxing each U-boat out with as much freight as we can. It just doesn't work.
Then you’re unloading too fast. Break of of theirs TMs off to push? Even out your unload to push ratio. It’s not a broken system it’s a brokenprocess at your store. Not every issue has an obvious solution, but u loading too fast is a pretty easy one.
sounds like a captain position and not a team lead position
We only have 5 TMs on the unload -- 1 thrower, 1 pusher/SS, and 3 SS. It would be 6 if you count A&A breakout. We tried extending unload, but we ended up rolling most of the freight as those on the line had to leave 30 mins after the unload was done -- not enough time to push their areas. No hours to add anyone else or extend shifts.
Correct, if you are lucky enough to have this. Lately my TL has had to be part of the whole pushing the line aspect because like today we only have 4 sorters scheduled. My STL considers them to be part of the actual sort because payroll is so shit. So when the next group of people come in a half hour after the beginning of the sort you need to take one if not two to get the line going and actually be efficient, or spend your whole shift sorting and work one uboat before you are cut. Then people bitch that the sort looks like shit and that the TL needs to be doing more to make sure the sort is precise. Then bitch that trailers aren't getting finished because no pp1 has been touched until the truck is unloaded because you had to rob Peter to pay Paul. Uboats are on the sales floor because there is no room by the line, trash, the list goes on and on....
Sounds like a team lead position which is a notch above GSA.
Never thought I would ever hear this at Target.
If we don't we get down to like 1 vehicle. In all reality it depends on the repack count.
What’s the point of being a GSA anymore then? I heard of this being a possibility right before I left and both of our GSAs told HR they wanted to step down to cashier because of it
Hours? At my store the GSAs are scheduled to work a lot more than any cashiers. The extra responsibility isn't worth it because I imagine for most GSAs the whole "it's a good stepping stone to a TL position" thing is never going to result in a promotion.
I think that could be said of any role away from cashier, though. Imagine going from cashier to Plano or flow where the physical labor and pressure is more intense. Yet they all make the same as a cashier. Cashier to gsa is definitely an increase in responsibility but puts them more in line with every other role in the store so none of us make enough!!
Wouldn’t be surprising. I remember them saying HR tried to justify it as them “gaining extra experience” but they both didn’t want to move up from GSA in the first place so they didn’t really see any benefit from it. I also remember hearing “all cashiers will end up being GSA equivalent” when talking modernization but they never had any time for training when there were 2 cashiers up front at a time
GSAs are expected to act as “TLs” over the front end and it’s team members though, at least at the store I was at, not to mention closing registers/counting money. To me at least that’s more responsibility than being in Plano/sales floor/etc. (not saying those jobs are easy)
There will be elevated position in Food, Home, Beauty and Electronics. They will have more responsibility then a team member but not as much as a lead. They will paid more then a team member. There is anothe pay lift his summer and these changes will be reflected then.
Oh for sure, and I agree they work very hard and the increase in responsibility deserves better pay. And I am plano/pricing so I might take it too personally.
Your store must be well staffed...we have to have people pushing while the unload is going on or we'd never get things started right.
In theory, that's how it's supposed to be. In practice, I've been in two pilot stores and have yet to see this come to fruition most of the time. The GSA turnover rate is too high.