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- Sep 22, 2018
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- 23
I enjoy working for the company a great deal as it matches my personality and desires from a job. I don't love everything especially some of the current changes but I feel like I've reached a point where I need more than a paycheck every month for my hard work, I keep adapting to the fast repetitive changes but I always stay in place. I want personal growth and new challenges, and a change of pace. Making well above the chains minimum of 12, have negotiated multiple pay raises outside of normal yearly ones with the store team lead. They very clearly value me, and appreciate everything I do but I've been waiting quite some time for a promotion inside our outside our store, and I'm starting to get tired of waiting. I've been on the bench since mid first quarter, still nothing has happened. The store team lead seems to think I just need to be patient, and listen to his advice/steps to more forward.
But I've been doing that for months, but my last team lead was toxic and lied/misconstrued things to come up with a complaint that made no sense relative to the reality in our section of the store. The Store Team Lead could ask literally anyone in my section, and they would contest the claims made against me as they were the opposite of the reality. As a result i'm starting to feel like they are making excuses and refusing to promote me as if I leave the section will likely fall into disarray without my presence. Numbers have been green most of the time I have been in this position, and they were not so pretty before I arrived. If I move and grow, they will have to do the same and struggle until they find someone else to take up my role.
Things have been so good the Store Team Lead has repeatedly praised our section and myself directly giving me credit where its due, as we have had nearly no issues since the modernization started and have carried our workload and then some every single day under my leadership. I've earned the respect and admiration of those below me, as I am always who they fall back on when things don't go well, I've always got the answers and can always smooth things over with guests no matter how bad the guest or foo-pah from my team. My actual team leads always have no clue what they are doing one tossed over me, and become reliant on me to watch the section while they take care of whatever others they lead over. I'm tired of having people over me who make more than me and are building towards something while I run in place and have for years. To make matters worse they just throw their work and responsibilities on me, and I get nothing but a bigger pay bump each year which does not help my resume.
I feel like a rabbit, and someones holding a carrot out on a stick, they keep promising a reward when I meet goals, but then when I meet or beat them I end up with a nice pay bump but no progression. What do I do here, start applying at locations within 50 miles for team lead positions, and start commuting every day and go over my local management? What do I need to be doing to get noticed and promoted in or outside the store i'm located in?
His biggest request is he continues to demand I lift everyone in my team to the same performance levels as myself, the problem is the rest of the staff work way less hours and care way less. I don't hire these people, I just train them, and I cant force someone to change their attitude and work ethic. I've improved them, but I cant imagine pushing them to carry out my work load without being actively monitored. Only one maybe has the drive to do it, and he is loosing motivation from watching me struggle to get promoted as he is starting to see Target as a dead end.
But I've been doing that for months, but my last team lead was toxic and lied/misconstrued things to come up with a complaint that made no sense relative to the reality in our section of the store. The Store Team Lead could ask literally anyone in my section, and they would contest the claims made against me as they were the opposite of the reality. As a result i'm starting to feel like they are making excuses and refusing to promote me as if I leave the section will likely fall into disarray without my presence. Numbers have been green most of the time I have been in this position, and they were not so pretty before I arrived. If I move and grow, they will have to do the same and struggle until they find someone else to take up my role.
Things have been so good the Store Team Lead has repeatedly praised our section and myself directly giving me credit where its due, as we have had nearly no issues since the modernization started and have carried our workload and then some every single day under my leadership. I've earned the respect and admiration of those below me, as I am always who they fall back on when things don't go well, I've always got the answers and can always smooth things over with guests no matter how bad the guest or foo-pah from my team. My actual team leads always have no clue what they are doing one tossed over me, and become reliant on me to watch the section while they take care of whatever others they lead over. I'm tired of having people over me who make more than me and are building towards something while I run in place and have for years. To make matters worse they just throw their work and responsibilities on me, and I get nothing but a bigger pay bump each year which does not help my resume.
I feel like a rabbit, and someones holding a carrot out on a stick, they keep promising a reward when I meet goals, but then when I meet or beat them I end up with a nice pay bump but no progression. What do I do here, start applying at locations within 50 miles for team lead positions, and start commuting every day and go over my local management? What do I need to be doing to get noticed and promoted in or outside the store i'm located in?
His biggest request is he continues to demand I lift everyone in my team to the same performance levels as myself, the problem is the rest of the staff work way less hours and care way less. I don't hire these people, I just train them, and I cant force someone to change their attitude and work ethic. I've improved them, but I cant imagine pushing them to carry out my work load without being actively monitored. Only one maybe has the drive to do it, and he is loosing motivation from watching me struggle to get promoted as he is starting to see Target as a dead end.
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