I always thought a color stripe for takedown date would make takedown quicker, easier and more accurate. Kind of like your car inspection sticker, green for this week, yellow for next, blue for the following. ‘’All green stripe signs off tonight’’, or whenever u walk past them during the week if missed.
Oh I agree. Unfortunately that won’t fix laziness. They should have one dependable team member take down signs for the entire store on Saturday nights. You can’t make seasonal team members responsible for ad takedown. It doesn’t work.
There is no room to do our part to fix it. With corporate it's the Nazi agenda, comply or die. Don't wanna do it this way? Get out well find someone who will. Part of why tms aren't being promoted anymore and our new managers are coming from outside the company.
I'm even fine with Beauty, A&A, Electronics, and Market being pushed by its salesfloor teams because, when given the time to zone and do the job correctly, it does actually work out better that way. But we still need a dedicated stocking team at 4am. There's no reason you can't have some salesfloor people (softlines, market, whatever a store needs) come in at 4am (or even 6am), help with sort, and stay until 12:30 (or 2:30) (spending the second half of their shift on the salesfloor).
For Softlines sort (breakout?) at my store one of us is scheduled 6 or 6:30a until 10:30a or 11a. The other is 7a to 11a or 11:30a. Sometimes until noon. It still isn't getting done. Today we had one TM from 6:30a-8:30a, another from 6:30a-10:30a, and a third from 7a-11a. Still had 30+ repacks left after 11, but no one was asked to extend. One of us (me) is a salesfloor TM, and I'm supposed to go to the salesfloor after sort, but "we don't have the payroll right now." In Q4. On Black Friday week. Everything is sorted and detrashed in the backroom so that all softlines salesfloor team has to do is place items on shelves and racks and zones as we go. But our leadership expects 2 people to get sorted what we used to have at least 4 or 5 people do. In less time, with less room to move around. And we have to have a more detailed sort than we did before.
Also let someone in HR or department heads write their own schedules. My STL has no damn clue what she's doing and takes out her personal feelings about me on my schedule.
She'll either say it's because my availability isn't great (which to be fair, it isn't; but it's better than most in softlines, and I'm trained in other [at least 5] workstations and have said I'm willing to learn ANY work station [I keep mentioning SFS, but nothing, and I've been mentioning that since our store started it], even help the PMT with stuff if he needs) or that "we don't have the hours right now" which is just her parroting our STL. But a lot of team members with worse availability and second jobs still get more hours than I do.
Dear Corporate,
To be fair, we think they were working on performancing her out but have to put it on hold for...a certain reason. It's a common enough reason, but I'm worried that if I say the reason, someone might figure out who my STL is and I won't stay anonymous on here. Only time will tell, I guess?
