Archived Goodbye Vibe Wall

[squirrely]

Hello YOU board. I can't remember the actual name of it, but our store is changing the cards and someone will be named employee of the month (not actual name, it's something more Targetish, I just can't remember what it's called, lol). They briefly covered it at huddle which is why I have so little info. Any other stores doing this?

 

[Retail Girl]

Oh God. Not employee of the month. Studies have shown that is incredibly demoralizing for people and the worst way to go about recognition.

So of course Target is doing it.

 

[Captainzim]

I wonder why Target is bring it back considering most stores got rid of it since 2010ish and now they decide its a good idea to bring it back. BAH

 

[Keling]

Employee of the month, right...its just gonna be a rotation of soft line team members since they only write vibe cards about each other or whatever cashier got the most reds cards that month.

 

[DoWork]

Team member of the month will either be a cashier with red cards or an ETL. Sounds great.

 

[Retail Girl]

At my store it will be an ETL. They apparently got called out on a visit once that all the vibe cards on the board were for TLs and ETLs.

 

[Targe]

Flow will watch the board shift around, but flow will never see a single name there..

Ha

 

[Bosch]

Flow will watch the board shift around, but flow will never see a single name there..

Ha

My store has always done dayside and overnight "Team Hero" but as always it ends up being the same people over and over. And with vibe cards, I just started writing them to our team, every time we save someone's behind = team card that we for example pushed all the batches Plano left on the line, helped pull the CAF round or back up cashiered for an hour.

 

[backspeed]

Our store has "Great Team Hero of the Month" where all the TL and ETL get together and pick someone to be it. They get their name engraved on a plaque that is by the break room.

 

[signingminion]

Flow will watch the board shift around, but flow will never see a single name there..

Ha

We held on ours after they got rid of it for like a year. The plaques are still up. Mostly non tls. Backroom, flow, and all the floor areas are represented equally.

 

[Redzee]

I ignored the board except for adding a couple of limericks. For a long time the posts were written in only two hands regardless of names or content so bleh.

 

[antwan5544]

Yeah on are new vibe wall we have one vibe for every position except flow and cart attendant.because know onexactly every sees us lol

 

[jadzia]

It'll still be the same thing. A massive circlejerk of TLs and ETLs kissing asses. "Hey thanks for leading the team so efficiently and with a sense of urgency last night!" (Meanwhile that ETL was nowhere to be seen on the salesfloor.)

 

[jenna]

I scored Great Team Hero (or whatever they used to call the employee of the month) and the next month they promptly awarded it to one of the LEAST productive TL's - think the Milli Vanilli of Target.

Kind of took the wind out of my sails.

 

[SeniorAP]

Once you've been around long enough, you realize that the company recycles the same crap over and over again. First it discontinues it-- only to bring back the same concept a few years later. It's pretty comical.

 

[DoWork]

A truly anonymous system would be great. Maybe like a 4chan for each store.

 

[redeye58]

Flow will watch the board shift around, but flow will never see a single name there..

Ditto for FA or SB.

 

[Redexpress]

The new board is called "because of you...". It took team members at our store less than a day to started quoting the Kelly clarkson song on the cards

 

[oath2order]

A truly anonymous system would be great. Maybe like a 4chan for each store.

oh my god

 

[squirrely]

The new board is called "because of you...". It took team members at our store less than a day to started quoting the Kelly clarkson song on the cards

Thank you! I knew it had the word 'you' in it!

 

[SnorlaxTM]

A truly anonymous system would be great. Maybe like a 4chan for each store.

>be me, 20 year loser cashier
>etl come up tell me get three redcards for three hour shift
>get none because no checks
>get coached

Or even better, TM/ETL so-so stinks or other less pleasant words.

Yeah... That would only last a day.

 

[Loki]

Ah Employee of the Month. Nothing like letting everyone else know they're crap. I don't agree with that either especially when you know it's going to make people feel like shit and then the work place will be even more depressing.

 

[redeye58]

Employee of the month: aka 'most popular TM', 'Who's blowin' the boss', 'world's biggest brown-noser', 'TM most likely to contract an STD', 'best at rigging the metrics', etc.

 

[Kartman]

I want "Badass Of The Month."

 

[EagleEye]

We've had a Vibe Team Hero for about 7 months so far.