So, some background on me, I'm almost at 6 years with Spot, 3 years an Electronics TM, 3 years a Sr./TPS. In my store I formed some strong bonds with the team, and I'd like to think I'm personable, charismatic, and likeable. (at least to my knowledge) I've had a good relationship with about everyone in my store, and overall I like the idea that people like me. I never had an 'enemy,' and nothing's ever come up that somebody had a bad thing to say about me. Overall I treat everybody with respect and like to make them laugh along the way, and it's a nice feeling.
But
I just got promoted to AP-TL, and I'm moving to an all new store. A store that I'm told by peers and even my predecessor has broken processes and plenty opportunities with operational routines, safety, and so on. I know the drill, you come into a store guns blazing and try to fix/change everything from the get-go is basically asking to be loathed, I have no intention of doing that. But something has to give. Be it one week, two weeks, or a month into role, eventually I have to start making an effort to improve operations, shortage, etc. And I know that I'll have two options: Push the team to see results, or try not to rock the boat and let the store stay stagnant. I'm over 50% to my degree and I want to be ETL before my 8 years, so you can guess which option I want to go for.
Now, obviously ASANTS is a big factor here, and there is absolutely leaders that are both effective and loved by their stores, but for all of those there's just as many TL's, ETL's that are great at their jobs but are hated by at least some team members, fairly or not (For every ETL-HR that's hated by their team for retaliation and other legit concerns there's an ETL-GE that's hated by their cart attendants for just making them follow the 7 cart rule). So whether it's going to happen or not, I'm mentally preparing for the outcome that by making my efforts to improve the store, successful or not, it's going to rub some people the wrong way. I've never actually had that happen to me before, like I said before while I can't and won't claim that nobody disliked me, I've never actually been in a situation where it was a known.
I'm not 100% sure why I made this thread, I'm not looking for "how to deal with being disliked" advice, I guess I just never talked about this aspect of the job with anybody yet and I just needed to get these thoughts out there. So...thanks for letting me let this out?
But
I just got promoted to AP-TL, and I'm moving to an all new store. A store that I'm told by peers and even my predecessor has broken processes and plenty opportunities with operational routines, safety, and so on. I know the drill, you come into a store guns blazing and try to fix/change everything from the get-go is basically asking to be loathed, I have no intention of doing that. But something has to give. Be it one week, two weeks, or a month into role, eventually I have to start making an effort to improve operations, shortage, etc. And I know that I'll have two options: Push the team to see results, or try not to rock the boat and let the store stay stagnant. I'm over 50% to my degree and I want to be ETL before my 8 years, so you can guess which option I want to go for.
Now, obviously ASANTS is a big factor here, and there is absolutely leaders that are both effective and loved by their stores, but for all of those there's just as many TL's, ETL's that are great at their jobs but are hated by at least some team members, fairly or not (For every ETL-HR that's hated by their team for retaliation and other legit concerns there's an ETL-GE that's hated by their cart attendants for just making them follow the 7 cart rule). So whether it's going to happen or not, I'm mentally preparing for the outcome that by making my efforts to improve the store, successful or not, it's going to rub some people the wrong way. I've never actually had that happen to me before, like I said before while I can't and won't claim that nobody disliked me, I've never actually been in a situation where it was a known.
I'm not 100% sure why I made this thread, I'm not looking for "how to deal with being disliked" advice, I guess I just never talked about this aspect of the job with anybody yet and I just needed to get these thoughts out there. So...thanks for letting me let this out?
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