Archived Pictures that make you go hmmm.

[unknown]

Had to take a pic of this today. Apparently, the idiots at corporate not only forgot they took away the specialist positions years ago but also forgot my store, along with most others, doesn't even have a signing tm anymore. Way to rub salt in the wound. Should be interesting to see what happens to all the signing that will accumulate.

 

[Black Sheep 214]

Balers will be full...

 

[Ringwraith917]

Who hangs the door signs and other non department specific signs? At my store its the same TM who used to do it, but I assume they're scheduled under different workcenters depending on the project.

 

[GreasyGary]

Who hangs the door signs and other non department specific signs? At my store its the same TM who used to do it, but I assume they're scheduled under different workcenters depending on the project.

According to the April Addendum, a "General Merchandise Expert" was supposed to hang the Mother's Day FOS overhead this week.

In reality, I was asked to do it as the former signing TM. And I'll be doing all of them going forward. I just have to "make time" between sets and "be fast" because the other Presentation Experts or Transition Experts or whatever we are now are down one person while I'm doing laps around the racetrack in the WAVE (apparently what everyone in my store thinks signing people do).

 

[unknown]

I don't normally cuss ..... but I can't FUCKING wait to see someone other than me do some signing. Fir example, the goodfellow metal thing where you have to take every screw off. Or hang some of the fabric signs.

 

[daemon]

Signing may not be a separate job position, but our designated pog guy gets extra hours for it, so it's not like he has to do it on top of the same work and hours other pog members get.

 

[unknown]

Signing may not be a separate job position, but our designated pog guy gets extra hours for it, so it's not like he has to do it on top of the same work and hours other pog members get.

I was told I wouldn't get any extra hours for it. That some stores would try to fudge it and keep someone there. Gee, really? You mean have someone do work and just not hope it happens magically.

 

[GreasyGary]

I don't normally cuss ..... but I can't FUCKING wait to see someone other than me do some signing. Fir example, the goodfellow metal thing where you have to take every screw off. Or hang some of the fabric signs.

Yeah, after doing next weeks signing, the softlines person said something about how much easier doing the signing was than they expected. All we had for that week were a few 11x11s. I didn't have the heart to tell them about CSEs or the Goodfellow thing. I'll let them keep thinking my job was super easy until that time comes along.

Maybe they'll do another brand launch soon with another big wooden sign holder thing like Auden or UT.

 

[SFSunicorn]

This one was posted on one of the fab pages. It made me go “hmmmm”

 

[daemon]

I was told I wouldn't get any extra hours for it. That some stores would try to fudge it and keep someone there. Gee, really? You mean have someone do work and just not hope it happens magically.

If your store alots no extra hours then they will just have to accept what ever gets done gets done, and what ever does not, does not.

 

[unknown]

If your store alots no extra hours then they will just have to accept what ever gets done gets done, and what ever does not, does not.

It's just not my responsibility anymore. For example, my gm tl told me that the stl wants the mini seasonal ohs union Monday. But if not specifically asked and not part of whatever pog I'm working on, I'm not doing. This week's pallet, ridiculously small, is still sitting in the back. I did see the evergreen signing in the cleaner aisle early since we didn't do mini. I dug that out. But the rest I left lying there. Can't wait till a huge pallet comes in.

 

[busyzoningtoys]

It's just not my responsibility anymore. For example, my gm tl told me that the stl wants the mini seasonal ohs union Monday. But if not specifically asked and not part of whatever pog I'm working on, I'm not doing. This week's pallet, ridiculously small, is still sitting in the back. I did see the evergreen signing in the cleaner aisle early since we didn't do mini. I dug that out. But the rest I left lying there. Can't wait till a huge pallet comes in.

@unknown I hope your hours haven’t been slashed or something. Stores need to stay on the good side of the TMs who previously did highly specialized tasks, so they can continue to be the valued resource they always have been. It’s not your store getting rid of the position, so don’t unleash your contempt on your store and your peers and leaders.

My former signing TM still does all of our signing. They’re scheduled GM but they only help out if there isn’t any signing work to do. They get the amount of hours that aligns with signing workload.

They don’t care that they’re now called general merchandise expert. With modernization, we are more of a team than ever, because now we are all on the SAME team.

I don’t know what your situation is with being a DBO or them having unload/truck expectations of you, but I know if my ‘team member formerly known as Signing Specialist’ pulled this ‘not my problem anymore’ shit, I’d have them performanced out in RECORD time. Looking forward to setting your TL and store up for failure with a piece of the process that HQ didn’t think through very well? Sounds like resisting the process to me, and that doesn’t fly at any level. TLs can’t support someone who isn’t on board, because our ETLs can’t support us if we aren’t on board, because we the STL can’t support an ETL that’s not on board, and so on DTL GVP SVP etc. that shit won’t be rolling uphill on my watch, or theirs, and HRBPs aren’t batting an eye at terms due to performance on the new process. That attitude would have every moment of their 4 hour shift timed by a stopwatch and under a microscope.

 

[seasonaldude]

@unknown I hope your hours haven’t been slashed or something. Stores need to stay on the good side of the TMs who previously did highly specialized tasks, so they can continue to be the valued resource they always have been. It’s not your store getting rid of the position, so don’t unleash your contempt on your store and your peers and leaders.

My former signing TM still does all of our signing. They’re scheduled GM but they only help out if there isn’t any signing work to do. They get the amount of hours that aligns with signing workload.

They don’t care that they’re now called general merchandise expert. With modernization, we are more of a team than ever, because now we are all on the SAME team.

I don’t know what your situation is with being a DBO or them having unload/truck expectations of you, but I know if my ‘team member formerly known as Signing Specialist’ pulled this ‘not my problem anymore’ shit, I’d have them performanced out in RECORD time. Looking forward to setting your TL and store up for failure with a piece of the process that HQ didn’t think through very well? Sounds like resisting the process to me, and that doesn’t fly at any level. TLs can’t support someone who isn’t on board, because our ETLs can’t support us if we aren’t on board, because we the STL can’t support an ETL that’s not on board, and so on DTL GVP SVP etc. that shit won’t be rolling uphill on my watch, or theirs, and HRBPs aren’t batting an eye at terms due to performance on the new process. That attitude would have every moment of their 4 hour shift timed by a stopwatch and under a microscope.

The word on how things should work needs to be passed along to leadership at more stores. At my store former specialists are now all DBOs tasked with everything that entails. They also still get pulled constantly to perform their old roles, so naturally the sections they are DBOs for tend to fail. A single TM simply can't be in two places at once performing two different jobs at once. You would never schedule such that you only have a single cashier who is also expected to be the cart attendant and no way to get help. (I'm surprised this hasn't been tried yet actually.) Either the lines are going to back up or you're going to run out of carts. You have to pick one. Perhaps it's just my store has suddenly stopped knowing how to allocate payroll that just happens to coincide with trying to implement modernization. Don't know. But, for a lot of TMs the store is seemingly deciding they don't have the payroll to have two different people doing the two different jobs and they don't want to pick one that won't get done. This obviously leads to poor outcomes and TMs that have a less than chipper attitude about the support they are getting from leadership.

 

[unknown]

@unknown I hope your hours haven’t been slashed or something. Stores need to stay on the good side of the TMs who previously did highly specialized tasks, so they can continue to be the valued resource they always have been. It’s not your store getting rid of the position, so don’t unleash your contempt on your store and your peers and leaders.

My former signing TM still does all of our signing. They’re scheduled GM but they only help out if there isn’t any signing work to do. They get the amount of hours that aligns with signing workload.

They don’t care that they’re now called general merchandise expert. With modernization, we are more of a team than ever, because now we are all on the SAME team.

I don’t know what your situation is with being a DBO or them having unload/truck expectations of you, but I know if my ‘team member formerly known as Signing Specialist’ pulled this ‘not my problem anymore’ shit, I’d have them performanced out in RECORD time. Looking forward to setting your TL and store up for failure with a piece of the process that HQ didn’t think through very well? Sounds like resisting the process to me, and that doesn’t fly at any level. TLs can’t support someone who isn’t on board, because our ETLs can’t support us if we aren’t on board, because we the STL can’t support an ETL that’s not on board, and so on DTL GVP SVP etc. that shit won’t be rolling uphill on my watch, or theirs, and HRBPs aren’t batting an eye at terms due to performance on the new process. That attitude would have every moment of their 4 hour shift timed by a stopwatch and under a microscope.

My "situation" is that I was told in a one on one meeting with my ETL hr and then another with my stl/store director that the signing job is gone. And that I was no longer responsible for signing. That's it. What don't you understand about that? I'm scheduled under transition hours. I'll do my signing for my pog and whatever else I'm told to do. But as far as being responsible for signing in general, that's over. If I'm told to do a specific piece of the signing, such as overhead signing, I'll do it. I was told that some stores would try to "fudge the system" not my words, and keep a signing person, but that it wasn't part of the modernization paradigm. Is that true or not? I don't know. But to be frank, I don't appreciate having my job abolished like it was not ever important, and then come on mhere and have someone like you try to tell me what my attitude should be. You don't like my attitude, piss off. As far as I'm concerned, the signing can rot in a landfill for the rest of time before I take one speck of responsibility for it anymore.

 

[BoxCutter]

With modernization, we are more of a team than ever, because now we are all on the SAME team.

Except we are now Cosmetics, Style, Electronics, Market, General Merchandise, and whatever they are calling the FOS teams this week.

Pre-Mod, I and most of the TMs in my store, had an accurate idea of where a product was if a guest asked. Now, I'm relegated to my Specialty area and can not leave there. The only reason I knew about some of the changes in the Health and Personal Care aisles is because I had to go down them to get to TSC. It won't be long until after so many transitions that I won't know where anything is other than my area. My only choice will be to radio over to that department and hope someone is scheduled then.

And, no,I don't have the time while on-the-clock to check out the new sets because I have to be in my area. And, no, it is not my responsibility to do it on my own time.

When my area gets told, "Well, all other departments made their sale goals yesterday, why didn't you?," you are NOT creating and fostering a One Team environment.

We used to be a global One Team.

Now they are just pitting specialized teams against each other.

 

[NPC]

HHHHmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmMMmm

 

[Hardlinesmaster]

My signing person walked out.

 

[flow4areasonuno]

My signing person walked out.

What was the reason they gave? Too much expected too soon? ETLs been bugging them?

 

[Hardlinesmaster]

What was the reason they gave? Too much expected too soon? ETLs been bugging them?

They left & did not come or call back.

 

[Bosch]

Except we are now Cosmetics, Style, Electronics, Market, General Merchandise, and whatever they are calling the FOS teams this week.

Pre-Mod, I and most of the TMs in my store, had an accurate idea of where a product was if a guest asked. Now, I'm relegated to my Specialty area and can not leave there. The only reason I knew about some of the changes in the Health and Personal Care aisles is because I had to go down them to get to TSC. It won't be long until after so many transitions that I won't know where anything is other than my area. My only choice will be to radio over to that department and hope someone is scheduled then.

And, no,I don't have the time while on-the-clock to check out the new sets because I have to be in my area. And, no, it is not my responsibility to do it on my own time.

When my area gets told, "Well, all other departments made their sale goals yesterday, why didn't you?," you are NOT creating and fostering a One Team environment.

We used to be a global One Team.

Now they are just pitting specialized teams against each other.

Preach! And you can always ask fulfillment where things are, we know where everything is.

The one Team One Dream was left in a shallow grave out behind the baler.. No one has given a fuck about anything but there own since this started.

 

[seasonaldude]

And you can always ask fulfillment where things are, we know where everything is.

Caveat: Unless we're in an OPU batch. Then, kindly leave us alone.

 

[can't touch this]

HHHHmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmMMmm

got that MOTIVATION for CONTEMPLATION

 

[gsa4lyfe]

My "situation" is that I was told in a one on one meeting with my ETL hr and then another with my stl/store director that the signing job is gone. And that I was no longer responsible for signing. That's it. What don't you understand about that? I'm scheduled under transition hours. I'll do my signing for my pog and whatever else I'm told to do. But as far as being responsible for signing in general, that's over. If I'm told to do a specific piece of the signing, such as overhead signing, I'll do it. I was told that some stores would try to "fudge the system" not my words, and keep a signing person, but that it wasn't part of the modernization paradigm. Is that true or not? I don't know. But to be frank, I don't appreciate having my job abolished like it was not ever important, and then come on mhere and have someone like you try to tell me what my attitude should be. You don't like my attitude, piss off. As far as I'm concerned, the signing can rot in a landfill for the rest of time before I take one speck of responsibility for it anymore.

It’s not your job to worry about anymore as in it’s not something you should actively be doing without direction. Before you were expected to do allnthe signing related tasks without being asked because that was your job. The fact it’s no longer your worry does not mean you won’t be doing it. The whole “it’s not my job” bs doesn’t work in retail. Your job is to do what your TL/ETL/SD asks of you. They want you to set pog? Push carts? Cashier for the day? Do some reshop? Put up overheads? Then that’s what you’ll do. Unless you have actual work related restrictions then you have zero reason to not do what your asked of by your leader.

 

[Not My Name]

@unknown I hope your hours haven’t been slashed or something. Stores need to stay on the good side of the TMs who previously did highly specialized tasks, so they can continue to be the valued resource they always have been. It’s not your store getting rid of the position, so don’t unleash your contempt on your store and your peers and leaders.

My former signing TM still does all of our signing. They’re scheduled GM but they only help out if there isn’t any signing work to do. They get the amount of hours that aligns with signing workload.

They don’t care that they’re now called general merchandise expert. With modernization, we are more of a team than ever, because now we are all on the SAME team.

I don’t know what your situation is with being a DBO or them having unload/truck expectations of you, but I know if my ‘team member formerly known as Signing Specialist’ pulled this ‘not my problem anymore’ shit, I’d have them performanced out in RECORD time. Looking forward to setting your TL and store up for failure with a piece of the process that HQ didn’t think through very well? Sounds like resisting the process to me, and that doesn’t fly at any level. TLs can’t support someone who isn’t on board, because our ETLs can’t support us if we aren’t on board, because we the STL can’t support an ETL that’s not on board, and so on DTL GVP SVP etc. that shit won’t be rolling uphill on my watch, or theirs, and HRBPs aren’t batting an eye at terms due to performance on the new process. That attitude would have every moment of their 4 hour shift timed by a stopwatch and under a microscope.

You are a dumbass.

 

[Bosch]

Caveat: Unless we're in an OPU batch. Then, kindly leave us alone.

I can answer a question on the radio while I walk, but no I am not doing your backroom pull kindly fuck off and get your ass up the ladder and get it.

It’s not your job to worry about anymore as in it’s not something you should actively be doing without direction. Before you were expected to do allnthe signing related tasks without being asked because that was your job. The fact it’s no longer your worry does not mean you won’t be doing it. The whole “it’s not my job” bs doesn’t work in retail. Your job is to do what your TL/ETL/SD asks of you. They want you to set pog? Push carts? Cashier for the day? Do some reshop? Put up overheads? Then that’s what you’ll do. Unless you have actual work related restrictions then you have zero reason to not do what your asked of by your leader.

You missed the point. She was told she was no longer signing and its not her job to be responsible for it anymore. Meaning when things don't get done its not on her. If she responsible for Chem and an overhead it babies isn't there it's not on her. She can be scheduled to hang it but its no longer her responsibility its on the DBO for that section of the store. And yeah leaders can ask, but much like when my ETL isn't there stealing us for the benefit of other leaders gets stopped really quick when our responsibilities start slipping. Cause it quickly escalates to the point where we get pulled so often our SFS doesn't get completed and OPU's get missed.