Zero credit here too. No news is good news. Meaning, that if no one is saying anything to you, you're doing ok. You only hear from anyone when they think you're screwing up.
We are also the catch-all team in the store, because I guess they think we have nothing better or useful to do. Need help zoning? Backroom will do it! TM in market called off? Backroom will fill in! Market, with their 10 TMs, didn't finish the backstock in the freezer or pfresh coolers? Backroom will do it! Some other workcenter didn't finish their workload? Backroom will do it! Push and/or B-code the candy? Backroom will do it! 8 cages of market truck cardboard, as well as cardboard all over the floor around the baler? Backroom will do it! Dozen people at the front end, two in the backroom? Doesn't matter, backroom will curb-side-service your guest pull all the way to the front!
Apparently, we are sitting around in the backroom on futons all day, listening to music, playing cards, and BSing - just waiting for that call to come in to get up off our asses for something to do!
Because it's not like we're doing:
- craploads of backstock, much of it from plano, unfinished flow/early-backroom workload, and endcaps.
- pulling large CAFs 7 times per day (11, 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
- pulling 15-30 planos, depending on day
- pulling PTMs everyday
- pulling 4-7 salesplanners for EACH of 3-5 TLs each day
- pulling price change batches with WILDLY variable sizes each day
- pulling dozens of research batches
- pulling orders
- pulling EXFs
- doing the daily audit (section 11 under Work Batches)
- nonstop guest pulls, especially during the 12PM CAF
- doing the weekly Item Merge
- and, on top of that, being the ONE TEAM responsible for pushing CAF
or anything. Nope. We're just standing around waiting for something to happen; I guess new automation systems and robots are doing all that work. Otherwise, I don't know who they think is doing it.
Working everyday in the backroom for one solid month straight should be required for ALL new ETLs. And it should be refreshed periodically. I'm talking about ALL DAY, doing the same tasks as a TM, with no delegation privileges. Because they clearly and obviously have no idea how the backroom actually works. It's all about the floor. Zone those empty shelves! (The product to fill those empty shelves is in the backroom, waiting for that 10-15 minutes we are able to squeeze in some CAF push between all of our other tasks).