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[ntauctions]

Does anyone else feel like the team environment is gone at Target? I remember coming in at 10 or 11pm, working a full 8 hours with our team. 20 or so of us all eating and talking in the breakroom. Every couple weeks or do we would requestion breakfast items and they would feed us. We'd have a huddle near daily going over the days sales, news, trends, recognition, etc before 'getting back out there' to finish things up before the store opens. Nearly the whole store would collectively push the refrigerated and frozen pallets on pfresh days. Every day or every other day there would be a huddle project where the morning dayside team would help us (inbound) finish up an area that was particularly heavy that day. Or they would push out, zone or flex seasonal.

To be honest Im pretty quiet and keep to myself but it was nice to see the whole store team come together to work together. Now it seems it's 'this is my area and I shouldn't be expected to help you in yours since I won't meet my goals.'

I used to know all hardlines areas of the store forward and backward. If I was pushing pets food and someone asked where air purifiers we're I'd drop what I was doing and bring the guest right to them. Now they ask me, I still try and bring them but it usually takes some searching (which they could have done or probably did themselves.) I don't remember the last time I walked through or pushed anything besides pet food, paper or chem.

Yes Modernization is here and it's how things are going forward - or until they come up w an even better plan to cut payroll. But how do we get back that 'team feeling's which, at atleast in my store, was so very important and essential? Or is it gone for good?

 

[NKG]

Cool start 50 threads within 5 minutes

 

[Tainted Kool aid]

Team members are no longer a thing. I stress the word team. We are now all individual business owners if you want a team join a softball league

 

[qmosqueen]

do you get team pay no, and those slow ass team members just tag along and slow you down, when they should have been gone years ago.

 

[NKG]

Team members are no longer a thing. I stress the word team. We are now all individual business owners if you want a team join a softball league

Can we start a beer drinking league???

 

[Black Sheep 214]

Sad to say, but the team feeling is gone for good, that’s the trade-off for having “dedicated business owners”. Spot chose dog-eat-dog over team co-operation, and that’s what they have, stores where the DBOs look out for their own area and to Hell with everybody else. Makes for a lot of infighting, too, especially if people in one area see favoritism or diverting of hours to other areas. If you think it’s toxic now during the slow season, wait until it gets busy. Hope Spot enjoys the culture of “Screw them, that’s not my area”, because that’s their replacement for “Fast, Fun, and Friendly”. The worst is yet to come...

 

[Hardlinesmaster]

Please read the store modernization thread from start to present day. You will find the answers to every question, you have asked. From hours to process.

 

[Tainted Kool aid]

Or make another thread

 

[busyzoningtoys]

Au contraire, when it comes to my team, I don’t think the team feeling or mentality has been stronger. They’re very independent, but working towards the same goal, and help each other out. The one with the smallest truck will do reshop or help with the autos, they take turns backing up and usually will respond more to prevent the one with the biggest workload losing too much time, etc. Theyre unified working towards the same goal: coming clean for the day. Truck, pulls, backstock, audit. Salesplanners for the week.

 

[Dead and Khaki]

Hell, why not just shut down the entire site and leave only the Modernization Megathread? Modernization encompasses every aspect of working at Target now, so there is literally no thread we can start that won't be redundant.

 

[Dog]

Hell, why not just shut down the entire site and leave only the Modernization Megathread? Modernization encompasses every aspect of working at Target now, so there is literally no thread we can start that won't be redundant.

guests shitting on the floor in the pharmacy bathroom is part of modernization?

 

[Hardlinesmaster]

Hell, why not just shut down the entire site and leave only the Modernization Megathread? Modernization encompasses every aspect of working at Target now, so there is literally no thread we can start that won't be redundant.

Let me guess! You did not see the specialist roles, reduce tl headcount, viper 1.0/viper2.0, cartwheel app, & vibe over the years at spot?

 

[redeye58]

Let me guess! You did not see the specialist roles, reduce tl headcount, viper 1.0/viper2.0, cartwheel app, & vibe over the years at spot?

They forgot the sarcasm font.

 

[SitSpotSit]

I can see the team mentality in this process. The reason we would help each other was because we all had specialties to some degree. Now everyone will know all of those things so no one needs to create a big NOF pile for me, they will do their own. (Yayyyy!!!!)

So even though we won't need each other in the same sense, we are still a part of the bigger team in our store. If I'm working Kitchen aisles and a tm in Toys needs help I'd help. Most help hasn't involved a lot of time in the past and I don't see it changing. My store hasn't changed yet so maybe I'm deluded. I hope not....

 

[Dapper]

My team has only gotten closer, now that they’re being trained to do more processes they work with each other to create a more dynamic working environment, and I can feel how strong the team bond really is. If your store has shitty management, you’ll rarely have a good team bond. It’s just how it is

 

[flow4areasonuno]

I can't tell what the team situation is like. Most of us are only there 1-3 days a week, and I'm almost never around when some of my favorite coworkers are.

There's word that they'll start labeling U-boats with what they feel is an appropriate time to finish them in (30 minutes, 2 hours, etc) this week, which seems dumb tbh. Does disposing of garbage and backstocking count?

 

[graffiti]

On a memory lane note, one of the first things i remember disappearing from when I started was the phrase "core roles and responsibilities". We were getting quizzed literally weekly on what ours were to be sure we understood what was expected of us. Can you imagine getting asked that now? 😂

"Well, I stock. And backstock. But only if there isn't a callout and I have to push their freight too. And I zone. But only for 30 minutes, unless it's a small truck, then for longer. And I scan outs, sometimes while i zone and sometimes after i push, depends which leader is there. Oh, scan EXFs today? Set some endcaps? Pull my autos because backroom called out? Should I started stocking soon?"