talan123
Team Member/Troll
- Joined
- Jun 16, 2011
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I lost it the other day and actually went from being frustrated to being seething angry. They held interviews for Team Leads, I didn't get it but that wasn't the annoying part (didn't help but still).
It was the fact that they told a lot of other people, six or seven by my count, that they need to work on their Target vocab (can somebody explain to me how that prevents promotions?) and they needed to show leadership.
So now, I have four or five people that have been here for six months who think they can tell me what to do. I don't do anything they say or suggest that I should do because I have actual work to get done. But it is taking a lot of my time up to listen to them.
What finally drove me over the line was their last hire, a Sr. TL. They held us in the building while they did a final head count. Four times over the space of ten minutes because they kept getting confused on counting from one to seven. I called out who was where and what they doing and that we were all there because everybody was right there. Still confused them.
What drove me over the edge was the fact that this person was promoted two steps from team member to Sr. TL. I cannot even transfer from within the same building from one team to another, while they are promoting people based on god knows what criteria.
I lost it, went outside and screamed the "F" word to the top of my lungs and walked away (we had closed).
So I have finally come to the terms that this company is so broken from the inside out that it may not actually be a functioning entity. No matter how well you do your job, your vocab will count more than anything else. No matter what you do or who you do it with, who coaches you for the interview is infinitely more important. Merit is not the object at Target anymore, it is entirely how much BS you can shove.
In the last three years, I cannot come up with one improvement in processes that has come from headquarters. Every single aspect of the job is increasingly difficult with fewer rewards, they took away our "Perfect Package" rewards because we were getting too many!
Finally, they have announced that they are going to take select team members, not by any rational measurable expectations but those who they feel have something to offer the company, and give them extra training in the correct way to be interviewed.
They are putting favoritism into the freaking code book. Do they actually think that was a good idea? It's like telling your team members, "Hey we don't like you and there will never be an opportunity for you to move up the chain, but we are doubling your work load."
Morale at our store is becoming so low that their is actual talk of rebelling and I'm not the one instigating it! People are just tired of things getting worse and worse while nothing is being done, our ETL's are no longer going onto the floor which is furthering the stratification of our store.
I would love for corporate to actually talk to the team members alone, one on one. The last time those idiots came through, they didn't even say hello to team members there unless they were young and blond. They spent most of their time with two interviews, very young women. They literally ignored our AP guy. It was demeaning and embarrassing for all concerned.
It was the fact that they told a lot of other people, six or seven by my count, that they need to work on their Target vocab (can somebody explain to me how that prevents promotions?) and they needed to show leadership.
So now, I have four or five people that have been here for six months who think they can tell me what to do. I don't do anything they say or suggest that I should do because I have actual work to get done. But it is taking a lot of my time up to listen to them.
What finally drove me over the line was their last hire, a Sr. TL. They held us in the building while they did a final head count. Four times over the space of ten minutes because they kept getting confused on counting from one to seven. I called out who was where and what they doing and that we were all there because everybody was right there. Still confused them.
What drove me over the edge was the fact that this person was promoted two steps from team member to Sr. TL. I cannot even transfer from within the same building from one team to another, while they are promoting people based on god knows what criteria.
I lost it, went outside and screamed the "F" word to the top of my lungs and walked away (we had closed).
So I have finally come to the terms that this company is so broken from the inside out that it may not actually be a functioning entity. No matter how well you do your job, your vocab will count more than anything else. No matter what you do or who you do it with, who coaches you for the interview is infinitely more important. Merit is not the object at Target anymore, it is entirely how much BS you can shove.
In the last three years, I cannot come up with one improvement in processes that has come from headquarters. Every single aspect of the job is increasingly difficult with fewer rewards, they took away our "Perfect Package" rewards because we were getting too many!
Finally, they have announced that they are going to take select team members, not by any rational measurable expectations but those who they feel have something to offer the company, and give them extra training in the correct way to be interviewed.
They are putting favoritism into the freaking code book. Do they actually think that was a good idea? It's like telling your team members, "Hey we don't like you and there will never be an opportunity for you to move up the chain, but we are doubling your work load."
Morale at our store is becoming so low that their is actual talk of rebelling and I'm not the one instigating it! People are just tired of things getting worse and worse while nothing is being done, our ETL's are no longer going onto the floor which is furthering the stratification of our store.
I would love for corporate to actually talk to the team members alone, one on one. The last time those idiots came through, they didn't even say hello to team members there unless they were young and blond. They spent most of their time with two interviews, very young women. They literally ignored our AP guy. It was demeaning and embarrassing for all concerned.
