I recently have been given the opportunity to choose between working for the POG or Backroom team and was hoping someone with a little knowledge or experience with one or both would be able to shed some insight or opinion.
I've been working in the Backroom for about 5 months at a pretty high volume store. Not sure where we rank, but we're in a large urban area with no other major retailers nearby, so everything does very high business volume. I've been in the Backroom for 40 hours a week at 8.25/hour literally since orientation - people quitting or slacking is rampant in my BR, which has been great for my paycheck but horrible for the work atmosphere. I do love the work back there, cleaning my aisles and playing with the WAV & Crown are fun, but getting yelled at by TLs and let down by a lazy team every day is horrible (pulling pallets for a 2900 piece truck while everyone takes an hour-and-a-half break? Aaaaaah!). I have worked a bit of POG and liked it a lot more, they're a good team and I get along with them very well.
Anyway, I'm about to move to the remodel team and POG the whole store for the next 3 months, and I've been told I can pick between POG or BR when that ends. Obviously this is my moral decision - stay with a bad team and help with the rebuilding, or leave for something easy and nice. I'll figure that out with me and my conscience, but was hoping someone with more Target experience would be willing to give me some insight on anything from hours available, is there a different paygrade, work experience as you become more experienced in POG or BR, really anything...
Thanks, Breakroom Members!
(1st post BTW, thanks all)
I've been working in the Backroom for about 5 months at a pretty high volume store. Not sure where we rank, but we're in a large urban area with no other major retailers nearby, so everything does very high business volume. I've been in the Backroom for 40 hours a week at 8.25/hour literally since orientation - people quitting or slacking is rampant in my BR, which has been great for my paycheck but horrible for the work atmosphere. I do love the work back there, cleaning my aisles and playing with the WAV & Crown are fun, but getting yelled at by TLs and let down by a lazy team every day is horrible (pulling pallets for a 2900 piece truck while everyone takes an hour-and-a-half break? Aaaaaah!). I have worked a bit of POG and liked it a lot more, they're a good team and I get along with them very well.
Anyway, I'm about to move to the remodel team and POG the whole store for the next 3 months, and I've been told I can pick between POG or BR when that ends. Obviously this is my moral decision - stay with a bad team and help with the rebuilding, or leave for something easy and nice. I'll figure that out with me and my conscience, but was hoping someone with more Target experience would be willing to give me some insight on anything from hours available, is there a different paygrade, work experience as you become more experienced in POG or BR, really anything...
Thanks, Breakroom Members!
(1st post BTW, thanks all)