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Hey everyone.
Been with Target about 3.5 years now. I work on the Flow team. I don't really know where to start so this may seem to jump around a bit but this is basically just to vent about my "role" as I'll call it on the team.
I'm on the unload pretty much every day as a thrower. If I ever miss an unload during any given week it's once a week maximum.
It seems like everyone on the team generally does the same thing every shift except for me. I honesty go into every shift with no clue what they'll have me do that given day.
Some days I help out with the push, other times I am back stocking in light duty or back stocking in steel. I am the person who does all of the back stocking in the coolers/freezers during the food trucks as well. I cover receiving once a week as well as our receivers call outs/vacations.
I have made it known to my TL and my ETL that I have a very strong dislike for the back room. I would prefer to push the freight over anything else.
We just recently got a new TL and she is trying to get to know everyone and find out what our strengths are and where we like to work the most. I told her that if I am not working in the back room then I am happy. This has had no effect on where I get to work as I am thrust into the back room pretty much 80% of the time I'm working. Even if by some miracle I actually get to push on one of my shifts, at the very first hint that we may be slightly ahead of schedule, I am handed a mydevice and told to go and back stock light duty. Me. Not any of the other 15 team members who are more than capable of backstocking.
Now onto my actual problem. To sum it up in one sentence: I'm never happy with what they have me do there. Every single person on the flow team, which amounts to about 20-25 people on the average day does what they want to do, or at the very least what they don't mind doing. I know I probably sound like I'm coming off as a complainer with a bad attitude, but I honestly feel like the whipping boy of the team who fulfills all the roles no one else wants to do just to kind of take one for the team.
If I am not scheduled for a food truck shift, I can guarantee you 100% that the very next one I do work, I will have the previous day's food trucks back stock plus the current days back stock waiting for me. They just throw it in there and close the door. I'm sure I don't need to tell anyone how unpleasant it is to back stock inside the freezer.
Steel seems to be a huge area no one wants to work. No one wants to use any of the power equipment (wave, crown, power jack). I hate doing this more than anything. Why should I be hauling up huge boxes of plastic with ridiculously small space to work with because of the Christmas back stock getting out of control when I could just be putting a toy on a shelf while making the same amount of money?
Because of the new wage raises, even an 18 year old kid now suddenly makes 50 cents less than I do just to start! Lol what? I have seniority over a lot of these people too who remain day after day pushing on the sales floor at the speed of a turtoise.
What can I do to make a change? I'm so unhappy while I'm working there. If there's an area that many people don't want to work then it shouldn't be forced upon one person. I feel like I don't speak up as much as I could in fear of losing hours and being looked at suddenly as not as valuable.
The other thing I wanted to bring up as something that really bothers me is the role of a female worker. I am curious to see how this goes in other stores but if you are a female worker on the flow team I work on, you are pardoned from about 90% of the things one can do on the flow team. I have never seen a woman step foot into even the dairy cooler. I can understand a woman not being a thrower on the unload, but is it less cold for a man inside the -20 degree freezer than it is for a woman? And the wages are identical or pennies apart. What gives?
Does my boss secretly hate me and want me to quit? Am I being a baby or over reacting? I understand that no one wants to get up and go to work for a living but to be miserable during your shift? No one deserves that man.
I don't know if anyone will read this but I would love to get some responses and advice. Thank you to those who read this huge wall of text!
Been with Target about 3.5 years now. I work on the Flow team. I don't really know where to start so this may seem to jump around a bit but this is basically just to vent about my "role" as I'll call it on the team.
I'm on the unload pretty much every day as a thrower. If I ever miss an unload during any given week it's once a week maximum.
It seems like everyone on the team generally does the same thing every shift except for me. I honesty go into every shift with no clue what they'll have me do that given day.
Some days I help out with the push, other times I am back stocking in light duty or back stocking in steel. I am the person who does all of the back stocking in the coolers/freezers during the food trucks as well. I cover receiving once a week as well as our receivers call outs/vacations.
I have made it known to my TL and my ETL that I have a very strong dislike for the back room. I would prefer to push the freight over anything else.
We just recently got a new TL and she is trying to get to know everyone and find out what our strengths are and where we like to work the most. I told her that if I am not working in the back room then I am happy. This has had no effect on where I get to work as I am thrust into the back room pretty much 80% of the time I'm working. Even if by some miracle I actually get to push on one of my shifts, at the very first hint that we may be slightly ahead of schedule, I am handed a mydevice and told to go and back stock light duty. Me. Not any of the other 15 team members who are more than capable of backstocking.
Now onto my actual problem. To sum it up in one sentence: I'm never happy with what they have me do there. Every single person on the flow team, which amounts to about 20-25 people on the average day does what they want to do, or at the very least what they don't mind doing. I know I probably sound like I'm coming off as a complainer with a bad attitude, but I honestly feel like the whipping boy of the team who fulfills all the roles no one else wants to do just to kind of take one for the team.
If I am not scheduled for a food truck shift, I can guarantee you 100% that the very next one I do work, I will have the previous day's food trucks back stock plus the current days back stock waiting for me. They just throw it in there and close the door. I'm sure I don't need to tell anyone how unpleasant it is to back stock inside the freezer.
Steel seems to be a huge area no one wants to work. No one wants to use any of the power equipment (wave, crown, power jack). I hate doing this more than anything. Why should I be hauling up huge boxes of plastic with ridiculously small space to work with because of the Christmas back stock getting out of control when I could just be putting a toy on a shelf while making the same amount of money?
Because of the new wage raises, even an 18 year old kid now suddenly makes 50 cents less than I do just to start! Lol what? I have seniority over a lot of these people too who remain day after day pushing on the sales floor at the speed of a turtoise.
What can I do to make a change? I'm so unhappy while I'm working there. If there's an area that many people don't want to work then it shouldn't be forced upon one person. I feel like I don't speak up as much as I could in fear of losing hours and being looked at suddenly as not as valuable.
The other thing I wanted to bring up as something that really bothers me is the role of a female worker. I am curious to see how this goes in other stores but if you are a female worker on the flow team I work on, you are pardoned from about 90% of the things one can do on the flow team. I have never seen a woman step foot into even the dairy cooler. I can understand a woman not being a thrower on the unload, but is it less cold for a man inside the -20 degree freezer than it is for a woman? And the wages are identical or pennies apart. What gives?
Does my boss secretly hate me and want me to quit? Am I being a baby or over reacting? I understand that no one wants to get up and go to work for a living but to be miserable during your shift? No one deserves that man.
I don't know if anyone will read this but I would love to get some responses and advice. Thank you to those who read this huge wall of text!