So I was having a debate with one of my peer TL's about the possibility of someone being put on a corrective action for a red DTK metric.. I will not say what numbers I am talking about for obvious reasons. The exec has brought it up a few times as a potential counseling if the number does not improve in the future. Out of curiousity, on what basis can an ETL put a TL on a corrective action for a metric that the TL has coached TMs for continuously and tried to change the culture
They can put you on a CA anytime for anything on your Core Roles that you don't do on a "regular" basis (whatever THEY say is "regular"). They have to give you 30 days to improve...but that's ALL they have to give you. Then you go to a Final Warning and 30 days after that you are gone. Even if you improve, they can always say that "yeah, you did improve, but it wasn't enough! You're fired!" So if your metric goes up during your 30 days, they can still fire you for it not going up enough.
Believe me, I have seen all of this happen. I was put on a corrective action a few years ago for not having a "Green Zone" on a daily basis in EVERY aisle of my backroom. (This was at another store.) My ETL-LOG was on a Final Warning himself and I am sure he wanted to take someone with him before he was terminated, so he devised his little "zoning issue scheme" to get me. He failed because I came up with an action plan that addressed every point on the CA. I submitted a copy to him on a daily basis for 30 days. I also sent a recap copy to my STL and DTL every two weeks.
By the way, I was solid green in every backroom metric for the year. We were leading the district in the total backroom score. The trucks got done every day within the goal times and I led a highly productive team. We had no weak team members. Even with all of this, I was written up. So if your boss wants you out, he is going to find something on your Core Roles that he can get you on.
I was one step ahead of my ETL-LOG, but even with all of my action plan documentation, he tried to put me on a Final anyway. The STL nixed the Final and my boss was fired later that week. I won that round.
I got tired of all the crap I was getting as a leader, however, and finally stepped down in March of this year after 11 years. You can only take so much. I was on three medications last year at this time as a TL. This year, as a TM, I sleep like a baby!
