This is big. I was very close with the STL and ETL team, and would always try to have a solution in mind already before bringing up an issue with them. Although eventually, their trust got to the point where they would just have me address the issue myself without involving them.
That's me at my store. I'm the PA back up team lead and exactly what you said. Some days I just put on a joe fuckup impression because it tires me that I do all this shit and no pay increase whatsoever. I just want to scream and yell at the loafers but I can't because I will get in trouble and yet joe fuckup gets to loaf around and nobody says anything.
I give my 110% everyday sometimes 150%. Where is my TL offering? By now, I should be Sr TL. But hey, the leaders want you to stay in your position because to them, they won't have to worry about finding a replacement as good as you are who sticks around that long.
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No offense but have you had that feedback conversation with your leaders? There is probably other reasons you’re not being promoted. My store has done pretty well promoting within to deserving candidates. We have a pretty high turn over rate and no because of people quitting but people being promoted upwards and elsewhere constantly
while this may be true in the next year or two with the pay increases wiping out merit pay differences, in the normal way of doing things the captain would get a larger raise than the bum, which compounded over time leads to a significant difference in pay rate.
That's your store. Your store doesn't run my store and your leaders have no influence on the leaders at my store or vice versa. "Other reasons you're not being promoted" how can you say that when you don't know what is even going on at my store. My store has been done promoting team members since a year and a half ago. And leadership is downsizing. There are only made-up captaining titles but that's it. If you are great at what you do, they pretty much want you to stay in that spot because it makes life easier for the team leader. And then they also don't have to find a replacement for your spot. Say whatever you want, but I know how it is in my store and that's what I can talk about. I can't talk about any other store when I'm not there. The good leaders are long gone who actually cared for their team members and willing to recognize their potential and move them up.
One of my old TLs who has long left Target used to say that around here, you either get tons of recognition without the pay you deserve, or you’re paid more but get zero recognition. Speaking from experience, this is 1000% true. Went from being the rockstar TM in the store and district, speaking to the STLs from the district about what I’m doing to get the results that we were getting, to being a not-quite-new-in-role TL, who is given less and less resources every week despite expectations growing more and more, and being held accountable for the result. But I make $7 more an hour!
