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So today I was visiting one of my Target stores when I had an ETL come over to me to ask me about an issue with their display.
I noticed her staring at me from the race track and assumed she was a guest, so I didn't really pay much attention to her. I was pretty thrown off at first because I didn't realize she worked at Target.... She was wearing khaki pants, but had on a white shirt with some kind of red blazer vest thing on top of it. (Damn if I know anything about fashion....) She wasn't wearing a name tag, and really just didn't come across dressed like a typical ETL.
Anyway, I said to her "Sorry I wasn't paying much attention to you. I didn't realize you were a team member." then she told me "I'm not a team member, I'm a manager. We aren't allowed to wear name tags, and we are supposed to dress different than team members"..... I assumed that since she had no idea I worked for Target in the past she was using non-Target terms with me when she said "manager" and I said "You mean an ETL?" and she said yes. So I was like "Oh I didn't realize ETLs weren't allowed to wear name tags anymore." and she told me it was "strongly discouraged now almost to the point of being a rule".
So what is the deal with this? ETLs aren't supposed to wear name tags anymore nor dress "like team members"? I know obviously most ETL's dress nicer than TMs (like a button up red shirt or polo as opposed to a t-shirt), but when I left Target it would have been extremely weird for ETLs not to be wearing name tags. It would also be weird to be wearing the red vest outfit with the white shirt she was wearing..... So what prompted this change?
I noticed her staring at me from the race track and assumed she was a guest, so I didn't really pay much attention to her. I was pretty thrown off at first because I didn't realize she worked at Target.... She was wearing khaki pants, but had on a white shirt with some kind of red blazer vest thing on top of it. (Damn if I know anything about fashion....) She wasn't wearing a name tag, and really just didn't come across dressed like a typical ETL.
Anyway, I said to her "Sorry I wasn't paying much attention to you. I didn't realize you were a team member." then she told me "I'm not a team member, I'm a manager. We aren't allowed to wear name tags, and we are supposed to dress different than team members"..... I assumed that since she had no idea I worked for Target in the past she was using non-Target terms with me when she said "manager" and I said "You mean an ETL?" and she said yes. So I was like "Oh I didn't realize ETLs weren't allowed to wear name tags anymore." and she told me it was "strongly discouraged now almost to the point of being a rule".
So what is the deal with this? ETLs aren't supposed to wear name tags anymore nor dress "like team members"? I know obviously most ETL's dress nicer than TMs (like a button up red shirt or polo as opposed to a t-shirt), but when I left Target it would have been extremely weird for ETLs not to be wearing name tags. It would also be weird to be wearing the red vest outfit with the white shirt she was wearing..... So what prompted this change?