ESL New Hires as Checkout Advocate and Service Desk?

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Any Other Stores experiencing this in the last 6 months…
How does it meet the needs of the business to place an ESL new hire in a fast paced direct and constant communication with Guests who are predominantly an English only demographic and only 2 out of 20 front end TM s are bi lingual?

In fact what was the hiring process ? when these TM can’t answer basic questions , like, “ do you need register funds?”, “ can you go on your break a little early?”, “ can you please bring register 5 a roll of receipt paper?” without them putting their phones Google translator under your chin face and they do it with guests as well to complete a transaction?
Or, Placed at a register when they cannot identity coin/denominations in a cash transaction?
Or /And so Tm s also need Google translator to understand even their questions while training them?

These new hires are the kindest people.
It s heartbreaking to hear them struggle on the walkie to call for back up and when they start shouting at guests because the guests cannot understand them -and the checkout process stalls to say the least., and TM s are of little help because they can’t understand them either.

Any one have this going on at their store and how are you coping? I v been with Target over 5 years and worked in a few stores east and west coast and never in my life has this occurred.
 
This makes me both sad and angry, both on behalf of the new hires. They're being set up to fail, and that's not fair to them. I've done tutoring with ESL students and have never met anyone who tries harder to do a good job and do everything they can to please. But it's not like they can just magically be fluent in English if they're hired for a customer service kind of job.
 

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