@sabria 19 years old, living at home, no Bachelors degree and your store and STL hired you when you weren't even qualified and took a chance on you and brought you into the team. Shame on you for calling your fellow ETL team "meh" and your store team busting their asses every day for you 75% dead weight, and your STL who hired you "terrible at his job"! Now you are practically calling yourself the best thing that ever happened to that store and the hardest working employee there!? BS! The arrogance that oozes from your comments is frustrating to say the least. Be thankful you even have the position you're in. 9 times out of 10, no other store would have hired you and the reasoning is clear. With this attitude, you don't deserve 75% of your team, your ETL coworkers should hate you and your STL should fire you. You're the newbie. But somehow experienced enough to call everyone else out on their poor performance?
Look in the mirror.....unless you change your perspective....YOU are the only dead weight in that store!
I'm sorry you know so much more than I do about how my store operates. I haven't been in my store for long but apparently you've been here longer?
I'm a realist. My store is the worst in the district in all areas except red cards actually. We're red all over the board. Our HR process actually flows pretty well even before I got here (special thanks to our rockstar HR TM). I don't mean to sound like I'm the best worker here. I'm not. That'd definitely be our ETL Logistics who pretty much has been doing the same approach as I am now - trying to pick up all the slack in general areas.
@Hardlinesmaster I've spoke a lot to my STL and he just constantly tells me not to worry about stuff outside of HR and that we'll have a new ETL-SF/GE soon. Even on my LOD shifts if he goes to my office and I'm not there and instead on the floor or in the backroom doing something non-HR related he'll lecture me. It doesn't take all 10-12 hours that I'm there to get done what I need to get done in my office.. I mean my STL does give the vibe that he loves Target. However he's mostly just "present" and talks to us as if he's trying to recruit us for Target. Never actually directing any of his energy towards our store itself.
Our ETL-AP is the most unfriendly, quiet, and reserved person in an ETL role I've met. I understand AP has more office time than most others but I wish he could at least smile or be somewhat friendly when he IS out and about.
I just really want to see our store function properly like stores I was trained at. I'd like to not have 12 pulls on the line at 11pm that we have to leave for flow team. I'd like to not still have softlines VA's from november. I'd like to not have 100 empty/thrown together clearance endcaps/sidecaps. I'd like to not miss sales by 15-30k every day.
@Ross3268 I'm sorry for speaking what I've observed. However I wouldn't be on this board if I was going to sugarcoat all the bad and tell you want you wanted to hear. I don't feel like I deserve 75% of my team, I feel like I do deserve to work with people who can at least be motivated to not slow walk 1 item from their tub from grocery all the way to In With the New. I feel like I deserve to work with leadership who will hold their team accountable for 10 call ins in a month, signing out equipment, or not responding to callboxes/backup calls. When these team members are completely baffled and taken aback that I'm coaching them for these things - it shows me leadership hasn't been practicing accountability whatsoever.
That said, I don't mean for this next sentence to sound vain or arrogant - however this job was kind of thrown into my lap on accident. I don't really 100% need it and yes the money is great earlier than I expected and the experience is awesome. However I really want to finish my 4year and I'm semi-bummed that I won't be going off to the University with everyone else I was in school with starting in August (if I'm still here). I'm taking 3 classes online for it now on top of working for Target however it isn't the same. So at the very least I want to do the best I can to impact my store and make it a better place to work because that will make it more tolerable to be with Target for the long haul.
Ross I'd really love for you to come into my store and observe the majority of our team for a day. You know them so much better than I do already though so it probably wouldn't do much good. Then again from the way you assume and post here it sounds like you'd be one of the people who'd be content with performance issues and doesn't truly care about the job.
Anywho. I'm thinking about reaching out to my DTL this week. She's fantastic and I feel very comfortable talking to her. If it bites me in the butt - oh well. I'd just like to get her feedback on whether or not I'm overthinking it/heading in the wrong direction or what.