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Okay here's the scope...I don't think anybody on the flow team felt anything more than "slight" annoyance at what happened during today's truck, but I'd like to get some of your opinions on this.
So today our ETL-Logistics was in an usually good mood. He was trying to sell team members flat screen tv's as we were unloading them from the trailer. Afterwards he got on the overhead and announced today was a special day and that he wanted us all to sign up for target visa cards. Then while we were in market stocking, he was continuing to pitch visa cards and he was starting to cross the line. I mean he was really leaning on us to spend more of our money at target. He wasn't taking no for an answer either, he was debating every negative response he recieved.
Now Target has done things like this before like pressuring team members to buy patio furniture when we were entering the depression in 2008 and more recently trying to get team members to buy more frozen foods with promotions during huddle...
But today kind of got to me. I just think it's in poor taste to try and sell Flat Screen TV's to people who are making 9 dollars an hour and getting 3 or 4 days a week. And then in a final act of hypocrisy, our ETL went and bought McDonalds and ate it with our logistics team lead. Somebody questioned him on it, asking why did he go put money into another company when target carries perfectly good food, as he was just telling us. He openly lied saying it wasn't my money and it wasn't my food. And I don't even know if complaining about this would do any good, because what he did may have been exactly what corporate directed him to do....so opinions???
So today our ETL-Logistics was in an usually good mood. He was trying to sell team members flat screen tv's as we were unloading them from the trailer. Afterwards he got on the overhead and announced today was a special day and that he wanted us all to sign up for target visa cards. Then while we were in market stocking, he was continuing to pitch visa cards and he was starting to cross the line. I mean he was really leaning on us to spend more of our money at target. He wasn't taking no for an answer either, he was debating every negative response he recieved.
Now Target has done things like this before like pressuring team members to buy patio furniture when we were entering the depression in 2008 and more recently trying to get team members to buy more frozen foods with promotions during huddle...
But today kind of got to me. I just think it's in poor taste to try and sell Flat Screen TV's to people who are making 9 dollars an hour and getting 3 or 4 days a week. And then in a final act of hypocrisy, our ETL went and bought McDonalds and ate it with our logistics team lead. Somebody questioned him on it, asking why did he go put money into another company when target carries perfectly good food, as he was just telling us. He openly lied saying it wasn't my money and it wasn't my food. And I don't even know if complaining about this would do any good, because what he did may have been exactly what corporate directed him to do....so opinions???