To that one Team Member I - ARCHIVED

[DMNDZ bruhh]

to this fellow backroom tm,

you tell me "your still here? i thought you left a long time ago?" every single f****** day, the only reason why im here is because YOU cant finish backstocking your S***, and i have to pick up your slack. oh your mad because you could do it yourself and there wasteing there time with me there? maybe if you were more productive, and wouldn't b**** and complain about everything and anything, you would get ALL the backstock done by the time im done with my huge workload.

i like the fact how you go on the PDA and see what time im scheduled too and question me. my schedule, as well as what the TLs and execs have ME do is none of YOUR concern.

i also love the fact how all the fast, hard working backroom tms have to leave earlier because you complain how they are stealing all the hours. the only reason why they "steal"hours is because they are the hardest workers in the store and DESERVE what they work for, unlike you who complains there way through to get hours, idk why people like you are still there, you can bearly use a F****** pallet jack!

 

[JTFLOW]

This is one of the many reasons why it's good to be cross-trained. When you understand how another area operates you can avoid doing things that make their job harder which makes you more popular with your coworkers :sun:.

This is exactly what I do. Before we got new hires in on the truck I was one of a couple of people who would stay and finish the truck push. Other than that I have worked with cashier shifts, ad set, pushing line and am now working on getting backroom trained. I'm usually scheduled for 15 hours and have been able to pick up nearly 35+ hours! Am always the first people they call especially when they need help and all the TL know they can count on me to come in and help when they need it

 

[Retail Girl]

To the person doing scheduling...I'm a measly cashier. In school. I really, really don't need the 36 hour work weeks at this point. Really, it's okay. Surely, with down time between BTS and 4th quarter there is someone else who would love some extra hours.

 

[mrknownothing]

To the person doing scheduling...I'm a measly cashier. In school. I really, really don't need the 36 hour work weeks at this point. Really, it's okay. Surely, with down time between BTS and 4th quarter there is someone else who would love some extra hours.

This is the first post I've seen in a while where the poster has too many hours. I'll take some for you.

 

[B26]

It's been a while since I posted her, but all is going good and I have a TM story to share.

To that one team member, I want to punch you in the face. I had the pleasure of working next to you on the registers all day long.

This guy has been here for under a month and already everyone is talking about his crazy conversion rate. (he's averaging 5 per day)

While working next to him today here is some quotes I heard;

"The REDcard will save you 5% on every purchase and on select weeks as much as 15%"

"Sign up for a target redcard and you will receive special offers and discounts in the mail every month"

"Sign up for the RedCard and we will donate a portion of your purchases to various local charities"

Seriously dude, that's so messed up to people like me who are working our asses off and getting 1-3 a week. Here's one of my favorite quotes from after he explained the REDcard to an interested guest without a check.

"Come back tomorrow night with a blank check and we will set you up. Come to my line and I'll give you extra benefits that the other cashiers wont"

I am just waiting for someone to hear this crap.

Then, when I finished covering for this new girl, I saw her entering her Team Member # so I taught her how to make a Speed ID and she was really appreciative. Then, I get the REDcard liar guy come to me and tell me that it's his goal to have sex with this girl and he'd appreciate it if I stopped helping her. Yep, that was the icing on the cake.

/Rant

 

[pfreshdude]

Haha...

That reminds me of one of my friends who somehow sold someone a product which needed an active land line even though they didnt even have one, so they had to return it. Somehow he left out the most important part to get the sale.

 

[GrumpyAP]

It's been a while since I posted her, but all is going good and I have a TM story to share.

To that one team member, I want to punch you in the face. I had the pleasure of working next to you on the registers all day long.

This guy has been here for under a month and already everyone is talking about his crazy conversion rate. (he's averaging 5 per day)

While working next to him today here is some quotes I heard;

"The REDcard will save you 5% on every purchase and on select weeks as much as 15%"

"Sign up for a target redcard and you will receive special offers and discounts in the mail every month"

"Sign up for the RedCard and we will donate a portion of your purchases to various local charities"

Seriously dude, that's so messed up to people like me who are working our asses off and getting 1-3 a week. Here's one of my favorite quotes from after he explained the REDcard to an interested guest without a check.

"Come back tomorrow night with a blank check and we will set you up. Come to my line and I'll give you extra benefits that the other cashiers wont"

I am just waiting for someone to hear this crap.

Then, when I finished covering for this new girl, I saw her entering her Team Member # so I taught her how to make a Speed ID and she was really appreciative. Then, I get the REDcard liar guy come to me and tell me that it's his goal to have sex with this girl and he'd appreciate it if I stopped helping her. Yep, that was the icing on the cake.

/Rant

I'm pretty sure .... icing her cake ... is what he has in mind.
#endPerv

Seriously, this guy makes me want to leave him body in the bailer.

 

[babytrees]

I am pretty sure my STL thinks I am bonkers-tonight I told him he was killing me with reshop (he brought roughly 3 carts back to the fitting room), he heard me call my PDA a silly goose (hey, it didn't talk back!!), when I told him an alarm was going off when he was near the fitting room he came and turned it off and told me it was my alarm clock, I turned around a half hour later and told him my alarm clock was going off (it was). When I asked where I could meet him with the paychecks right after store closing...he told me to hold on to them and bring them back to TSC with me when I clocked out...I replied with glee. My TL got on the walkie and said we have to find you a life...Yes!! Please!! This was after last night he was looking for a TM (after closing) and I told him I last saw her in panties. Okay, I am bonkers ardon:

 

[Retail Girl]

It's been a while since I posted her, but all is going good and I have a TM story to share.

To that one team member, I want to punch you in the face. I had the pleasure of working next to you on the registers all day long.

This guy has been here for under a month and already everyone is talking about his crazy conversion rate. (he's averaging 5 per day)

While working next to him today here is some quotes I heard;

"The REDcard will save you 5% on every purchase and on select weeks as much as 15%"

"Sign up for a target redcard and you will receive special offers and discounts in the mail every month"

"Sign up for the RedCard and we will donate a portion of your purchases to various local charities"

Seriously dude, that's so messed up to people like me who are working our asses off and getting 1-3 a week. Here's one of my favorite quotes from after he explained the REDcard to an interested guest without a check.

"Come back tomorrow night with a blank check and we will set you up. Come to my line and I'll give you extra benefits that the other cashiers wont"

I am just waiting for someone to hear this crap.

Then, when I finished covering for this new girl, I saw her entering her Team Member # so I taught her how to make a Speed ID and she was really appreciative. Then, I get the REDcard liar guy come to me and tell me that it's his goal to have sex with this girl and he'd appreciate it if I stopped helping her. Yep, that was the icing on the cake.

/Rant

I hate when cashiers do crap like that. I had to listen to an LOD once tell a guest that the TCOE was 5%. I've already mentioned the other cashier who tells guests that they can use their Redcard at any store and that the interest rate was only 18 or 19 percent.

I felt bad enough for doing a Redcard app on a foreign passport knowing it would be declined and we figured the Redcard people could decline it or sort it out with her later.

 

[commiecorvus]

It's been a while since I posted her, but all is going good and I have a TM story to share.

To that one team member, I want to punch you in the face. I had the pleasure of working next to you on the registers all day long.

This guy has been here for under a month and already everyone is talking about his crazy conversion rate. (he's averaging 5 per day)

While working next to him today here is some quotes I heard;

"The REDcard will save you 5% on every purchase and on select weeks as much as 15%"

"Sign up for a target redcard and you will receive special offers and discounts in the mail every month"

"Sign up for the RedCard and we will donate a portion of your purchases to various local charities"

Seriously dude, that's so messed up to people like me who are working our asses off and getting 1-3 a week. Here's one of my favorite quotes from after he explained the REDcard to an interested guest without a check.

"Come back tomorrow night with a blank check and we will set you up. Come to my line and I'll give you extra benefits that the other cashiers wont"

I am just waiting for someone to hear this crap.

Then, when I finished covering for this new girl, I saw her entering her Team Member # so I taught her how to make a Speed ID and she was really appreciative. Then, I get the REDcard liar guy come to me and tell me that it's his goal to have sex with this girl and he'd appreciate it if I stopped helping her. Yep, that was the icing on the cake.

/Rant

So for the GSTL's out there, when you catch a serial liar (who is great for you conversion rate) how do you deal with them?

 

[redeye58]

Then, when I finished covering for this new girl, I saw her entering her Team Member # so I taught her how to make a Speed ID and she was really appreciative. Then, I get the REDcard liar guy come to me and tell me that it's his goal to have sex with this girl and he'd appreciate it if I stopped helping her. Yep, that was the icing on the cake.

/Rant

Warn the girl about this low-life & psychopath.
You'll be doing her a favor.

 

[redandkhaki]

So for the GSTL's out there, when you catch a serial liar (who is great for you conversion rate) how do you deal with them?

i haven't had this happen but if i heard something like that happening they would instantly be coached. I'm all for a great conversion rate but not by lying! that's just opening up a can of worms when they get pissed off that those things aren't true.

 

[Retail Girl]

To that (now former) cashier...what do you mean you quit?! You were my favorite co-worker up front! I wondered why we hadn't worked together in a while...now I know. And I don't like it. :-(

To the SrTL who updated me on what is going on with me training wise. Thank you. Keeping me in the loop keeps me happy.

 

[babytrees]

to all of the newbies tonight (4 out of the 5 on the softlines side.....a huge amount of closers!!! and one I was training at the fitting room)-if I could have done it, I would have fired 3 of you on the spot and given another of you a CA. Between the whining about how they didn't feel good or the heavy sighs and the bs about having their areas done, coming in late, talking amongst themselves instead of working....you get the picture. What you don't realize that while I don't get the TL pay when I am back in the fitting room and there is no TL I am considered by all the LOD's a TL so they listen to what I have to say and act on it. Most of you are not long for the store. It is really sad that you all had very reasonable areas that had been worked earlier in the day but the only one who had an awesome zone AND did all of their reshop (+ some of a couple of others) is the one who had the hardest area and the old timer. You all have been there long enough to know the expectations....grow up and WORK!!!

 

[DMNDZ bruhh]

to the early morning cleaning crew

when you see a big crown flying down the aisle with a pallet of water, honking as i go, that dosent meen just stand there and keep sweeping, move out of my way! i cant see you!

why do you think i honk the horn when i go down the aisle? that is to make you aware that i am going down the aisle and so you dont pop out and get nailed in the face. this isnt the first time i almost killed you with it.

 

[Barcode]

to all of the newbies tonight (4 out of the 5 on the softlines side.....a huge amount of closers!!! and one I was training at the fitting room)-if I could have done it, I would have fired 3 of you on the spot and given another of you a CA. Between the whining about how they didn't feel good or the heavy sighs and the bs about having their areas done, coming in late, talking amongst themselves instead of working....you get the picture. What you don't realize that while I don't get the TL pay when I am back in the fitting room and there is no TL I am considered by all the LOD's a TL so they listen to what I have to say and act on it. Most of you are not long for the store. It is really sad that you all had very reasonable areas that had been worked earlier in the day but the only one who had an awesome zone AND did all of their reshop (+ some of a couple of others) is the one who had the hardest area and the old timer. You all have been there long enough to know the expectations....grow up and WORK!!!

I don't think they can have you take over TL duties of an area without giving you the TL bump... Someone correct me if im wrong.

 

[babytrees]

I don't think they can have you take over TL duties of an area without giving you the TL bump... Someone correct me if im wrong.

not supposed to....that's why they've never said it officially....what it really is, is I am a not-so-glorified babysitter (on a side note...it's been like pulling teeth just getting my bump in pay to specialist)

 

[Hardlinesmaster]

They are considered the senior tm on the floor. Lod has no worries if that tm is really good without a tl working the closing shift. It happens at my store, 2 nights a week. There is no reshop or pulls when they closed. They drive the team to get done & correctly. On certain nights, when they closed with half the staff, reshop isn't done, but zones are! Gtc to them for trying!

 

[mrknownothing]

not supposed to....that's why they've never said it officially....what it really is, is I am a not-so-glorified babysitter (on a side note...it's been like pulling teeth just getting my bump in pay to specialist)

That's how softlines brand TMs in my store are handled when closing without a TL. They keep the zone sheet and make the break schedule, but they're not actually a TL - they have less power over TMS on the floor than a GSA has at the front end.

 

[redeye58]

To the sulky TM 'helping' me in FA today: Since I opened, everything was already done when you strolled in. All I needed for you to do was watch the counter & keep the hot case full while I did salads & sandwiches (which had all expired).
So every time I looked up, there was a line & you were in the back texting.
Yeh, I was ticked & no, I'm NOT sorry you got your feelings hurt. Stick THAT on your Facebook page!

 

[Retail Girl]

So, you've been hired as a SrTL with no retail experience whatsoever? Well, you're cute, blonde and mid-20s, so what the hell. Welcome to Spot!

 

[babytrees]

to my TL tonight...thank you so much for letting me vent and cry...I probably should have taken a mental health day. I have been banging my head on the wall because of the way my transfer from one area to the other is being handled. Thank you so much for giving me constructive ways to maybe move it in the right direction. I am sorry that the TL who has done the majority of the scheduling, whether she was doing it intentionally or not, kept us apart. I don't think you will go far in Target because you know what you are doing and can see through the bs, but you will be appreciated and go far for the right company!!I agree with you that I should have probably come to you before making my decision to move...mainly so I could have you fully in my corner and you would have warned me it would be this way.
to the LOD and STL when I came in tonight who told me, and only me, to push caf's for the first two hours of my measly 5 and a half hours on the sales floor....thanks(not) for pushing me over the edge. It's crap like this that makes it very, very difficult for me to like my job on either side of the floor.

 

[babytrees]

That's how softlines brand TMs in my store are handled when closing without a TL. They keep the zone sheet and make the break schedule, but they're not actually a TL - they have less power over TMS on the floor than a GSA has at the front end.

this is what I have been doing... and I have been empowered (not the right word but I can't think of it right now)by the ETL to do peer to peer talks.
it was a bit easier last night on me because the LOD was a bit more visible on the softline side but I think there is just a who stinking cares about softlines attitude through all of the LODS

 

[mrknownothing]

To that one TM in Infants: It's not easy to push diapers and make sure they're in the right place when you haven't zoned them. Especially since diapers are on sale this week and the sale signs are all over the floor, you really should keep it zoned, but what were you doing instead? Of course, chit-chatting with the operator. I ended up having to superzone half of the aisle myself and put the signs back in place when I could've gotten another CAF pushed in that time.

 

[mrknownothing]

Also, to the Spot genius that decided that Fan Central shirts should be unlocated as though they were in softlines, I loathe thee.