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What are some of your guys's pet peeves when it comes to management/hr? I'll throw some of mine out there. It will probably come off as some sort of incoherent rambling, but oh well. I'm not going to throwing all of management under the bus either, but mostly. There has been a few decent managers of all levels throughout the years, and like anything else if you're good and you actually care about your "job", not the office politics! And also care about your employee's, the office clique tends to throw you in the grinder.
But, with my 10 plus years of experience I've noticed certain habitual habits that management has.
#1. Being an actual, physical obstacle in your way while you're working.
Number one encompasses a lot of things, but here's a few examples. A group of leads just talking in front of the main stockroom doors, basically halting people coming in and out with freight or whatever need be. Burning a heavy pallet of water or whatever it is, once again leads standing in a circle just talking in the middle of an aisle or stock room. Leads doing their loop around the store in a V pattern blocking guests and employees from doing what they need to do.
It has always astonished me the complete situational and spatial awareness that most leaders have. That they will not move or think that the spot that they just decided to have little pow wow in, isn't exactly the best spot to do so. Early morning, we're unloading a truck, stalking, and bringing stuff in and out of the stockroom constantly. Then a bunch of leads will just stand in front of the stockroom doors acting completely pissed off that people are interrupting their very important conversation.
#2. Acting mad when a leader a "key carrier" is mad that they have to open up the equipment box/room or cash office.
My favorite thing is when I was working electronics, I would need the electronics key/magnet to basically open up almost everything and also spider wrap, and put cases on stuff, which was almost my entire workload. The leaders would be constantly annoyed by me for just asking them to get the keys for me, so I could do my job! They would tell me that." I was just up front I'll get it later. You can just double back and do the lock up stuff later". I can't tell you how annoying that is.
Or hearing every morning at the same time, everyday, that someone is wanting to get into the cash office. Because the store is about to open, and hearing the leaders in anguish, that they have to go over there and let someone in.
Or in the early morning before the store opens, being all pissy letting employees in. They know what time people are coming in, and most time they come in a big group, letting them wait out there for 10 or 15 minutes, just because they don't want to get up and open the door two times instead of once.
#3. Leader groupies.
Basically a leader will have a small very obvious suck up group of team members that just fellatio their ego. These team members do absolutely no work and just basically hang out with management. And HR basically just turns a blind eye to it.
#4. Leaders and HR delegating team member concerns and disputes to sort out amongst each other. Pretty self-explanatory here but I'll throw an example out there. A fellow team member was stalking in my area because we had a huddle, and refuse to take the plastic and styrofoam off the product while they were putting it on the shelf. Also was overstocking the shelf to a point where the shelf was unattaching itself from the fixture. I just got done fixing an end cap that this individual destroyed. So I went over there and kindly corrected them, and told them to please take the plastic and stare from off the product and please don't overstock. The reaction from this team member was to slap some of the product off the shelf and step up in my face and raise a hand at me. I stood my ground and remained cool and the situation diffused itself. But afterwards I told leadership about the incident and they just said "well maybe you should just talk to them and explain to them how to properly stock a area. It would mean so much more coming from a fellow team member than it would from upper management or HR." WHAT!? Responses like that have been going on for quite some time. Even from different regimes, so it's just not isolated to one individual.
#5.HR
I feel like a lot of problems have been exacerbated since modernization. But I think seriously, HR has been some of the worst since the new protocol. I even wonder why half the time that they're even there? Because whenever you do have a question, they basically just hand you a card with some phone numbers on it, and you have to do all the leg work. We seriously should just have a vending machine that dispenses those at this point. They're basically just a zealot for any new buzz words that Target throws down the pipeline at this point.
I have tons and tons of other little nitpicks that I could go on and on about. Maybe I will later. What do you guys have?
But, with my 10 plus years of experience I've noticed certain habitual habits that management has.
#1. Being an actual, physical obstacle in your way while you're working.
Number one encompasses a lot of things, but here's a few examples. A group of leads just talking in front of the main stockroom doors, basically halting people coming in and out with freight or whatever need be. Burning a heavy pallet of water or whatever it is, once again leads standing in a circle just talking in the middle of an aisle or stock room. Leads doing their loop around the store in a V pattern blocking guests and employees from doing what they need to do.
It has always astonished me the complete situational and spatial awareness that most leaders have. That they will not move or think that the spot that they just decided to have little pow wow in, isn't exactly the best spot to do so. Early morning, we're unloading a truck, stalking, and bringing stuff in and out of the stockroom constantly. Then a bunch of leads will just stand in front of the stockroom doors acting completely pissed off that people are interrupting their very important conversation.
#2. Acting mad when a leader a "key carrier" is mad that they have to open up the equipment box/room or cash office.
My favorite thing is when I was working electronics, I would need the electronics key/magnet to basically open up almost everything and also spider wrap, and put cases on stuff, which was almost my entire workload. The leaders would be constantly annoyed by me for just asking them to get the keys for me, so I could do my job! They would tell me that." I was just up front I'll get it later. You can just double back and do the lock up stuff later". I can't tell you how annoying that is.
Or hearing every morning at the same time, everyday, that someone is wanting to get into the cash office. Because the store is about to open, and hearing the leaders in anguish, that they have to go over there and let someone in.
Or in the early morning before the store opens, being all pissy letting employees in. They know what time people are coming in, and most time they come in a big group, letting them wait out there for 10 or 15 minutes, just because they don't want to get up and open the door two times instead of once.
#3. Leader groupies.
Basically a leader will have a small very obvious suck up group of team members that just fellatio their ego. These team members do absolutely no work and just basically hang out with management. And HR basically just turns a blind eye to it.
#4. Leaders and HR delegating team member concerns and disputes to sort out amongst each other. Pretty self-explanatory here but I'll throw an example out there. A fellow team member was stalking in my area because we had a huddle, and refuse to take the plastic and styrofoam off the product while they were putting it on the shelf. Also was overstocking the shelf to a point where the shelf was unattaching itself from the fixture. I just got done fixing an end cap that this individual destroyed. So I went over there and kindly corrected them, and told them to please take the plastic and stare from off the product and please don't overstock. The reaction from this team member was to slap some of the product off the shelf and step up in my face and raise a hand at me. I stood my ground and remained cool and the situation diffused itself. But afterwards I told leadership about the incident and they just said "well maybe you should just talk to them and explain to them how to properly stock a area. It would mean so much more coming from a fellow team member than it would from upper management or HR." WHAT!? Responses like that have been going on for quite some time. Even from different regimes, so it's just not isolated to one individual.
#5.HR
I feel like a lot of problems have been exacerbated since modernization. But I think seriously, HR has been some of the worst since the new protocol. I even wonder why half the time that they're even there? Because whenever you do have a question, they basically just hand you a card with some phone numbers on it, and you have to do all the leg work. We seriously should just have a vending machine that dispenses those at this point. They're basically just a zealot for any new buzz words that Target throws down the pipeline at this point.
I have tons and tons of other little nitpicks that I could go on and on about. Maybe I will later. What do you guys have?
