She's great though. I like her. She's really helpful in Softlines. Another intern is spending some time with our ETL-AP and then some time with our ETL-SF. I haven't talked to her much but she seems really motivated. I like the first intern the most, though.
We definitely don't work for FREE lol
I went on a weekend trip and went to another target outside my district and had a run in with an intern there. He was in a volunteer tshirt and was just standing in the middle of hardlines texting someone. I wanted to know if they had something in stock and thought he might just be a regular TM (not saying this still would have been okay) I started talking to him and when I told him I was an ETL intern from another store he said he was an intern at that one and I almost started laughing (I honestly thought he was joking at first) and asked him how he could get away with not only wearing a tshirt but also having wrinkled khakis (didnt necessarily say it in that way) and standing around texting. I told him about our routines and it looked like everything I was saying was completely foreign to him......I'm sorry for any store that has an intern that is treating this more like a summer job than a career and that their decisions actually can and will impact others, but I will say not every intern is picked from the same tree.
It was hit on but not drilled into us as much as some interns I've talked to in other districts but they want us to know we're the third highest ranking in the building and that unless it's our mentor or the STL telling us to do something we're not obligated to do it. you say this to the wrong person, who's never had any kind of power or title, and feels like they may have something to prove or wants a quick power trip then you're pretty much throwing gas on a small fire.
The difference? About two week gap from intern to eit unless you leave the program...
Last 4th quarter we had an intern that worked with out etl/log. IF the stl wasn't there they would sit up front all day...texting etc. The etl log would throw out lil nuggets of wisdom sometimes and the intern would have this expression like she was thinking...cant we just go back to texting .
They shouldn't even tell them that. They should have them be an actual intern and learn work centers. No intern will ever override what I have my team do especially when they know nothing about my area. Some are cool but the ones that go on a fake power trip need to take several seats and let the ones with experience lead. I'm sure you're a great intern I just haven't had any good ones lately.
