GrayDots
Instocks TM
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Been absent from the forum for a while. Forgive me if this has been discussed already and I should look back at previous threads.
Talking with other team members at my store, I've noticed some irregularities with the 2015 annual reviews at our store.
At first I thought it might be just my work center. I and the other instocks team members each got an IE, citing our failure to finish the research tasks consistently. This may have been understandable, had it not come after we spent months being told not to research anything because deliveries were not fully pushed and backstocked. I think there was actually a whole month where we weren't allowed to research at all for this reason, and we mostly spent our shifts pushing merchandise that had been bowled out into the aisles before our shifts began, then backstocking whatever couldn't be pushed out. Lately we've been allowed to spend the first few hours of our shifts actually researching, but that only started again after our reviews were written, so it seems our negative scores were based mostly on factors out of our control.
But I started to hear that team members in other work centers had similar reviews. One hardlines team member who has been at the store for ages, who has never (as far as I know) had any real conflict with anyone else at the store, who is always the first person to respond to guest calls and register backup calls even when he is not nearby, who covers all of electronics' breaks and holds doors for everyone and is generally indispensible, got a really negative review for reasons I can't even imagine. The whole backroom team reportedly received reviews that reprimanded them for failing to sign up any guests for red cards, which struck me as very strange because they hardly have any opportunities to walk out onto the sales floor while they're on the clock.
One team member I know, who was a TL before the store was reorganized a while back and used to get EX reviews, said she asked why her work was now considered to be of IE quality, and was told that the store can't afford to give out a lot of EX reviews and that if she continued as she was doing she may receive a better review next year. Could this be connected to a payroll issue? The store leadership has for a while now been pretty clear that they are finding it difficult to "make payroll." What is the likelyhood that this could bring down the store's average annual review scores for team members?
Talking with other team members at my store, I've noticed some irregularities with the 2015 annual reviews at our store.
At first I thought it might be just my work center. I and the other instocks team members each got an IE, citing our failure to finish the research tasks consistently. This may have been understandable, had it not come after we spent months being told not to research anything because deliveries were not fully pushed and backstocked. I think there was actually a whole month where we weren't allowed to research at all for this reason, and we mostly spent our shifts pushing merchandise that had been bowled out into the aisles before our shifts began, then backstocking whatever couldn't be pushed out. Lately we've been allowed to spend the first few hours of our shifts actually researching, but that only started again after our reviews were written, so it seems our negative scores were based mostly on factors out of our control.
But I started to hear that team members in other work centers had similar reviews. One hardlines team member who has been at the store for ages, who has never (as far as I know) had any real conflict with anyone else at the store, who is always the first person to respond to guest calls and register backup calls even when he is not nearby, who covers all of electronics' breaks and holds doors for everyone and is generally indispensible, got a really negative review for reasons I can't even imagine. The whole backroom team reportedly received reviews that reprimanded them for failing to sign up any guests for red cards, which struck me as very strange because they hardly have any opportunities to walk out onto the sales floor while they're on the clock.
One team member I know, who was a TL before the store was reorganized a while back and used to get EX reviews, said she asked why her work was now considered to be of IE quality, and was told that the store can't afford to give out a lot of EX reviews and that if she continued as she was doing she may receive a better review next year. Could this be connected to a payroll issue? The store leadership has for a while now been pretty clear that they are finding it difficult to "make payroll." What is the likelyhood that this could bring down the store's average annual review scores for team members?
