JustJoe
"Can you go to 3, please?" *Turns off walkie*
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- Nov 19, 2012
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The other night I was confronted by my ETL in regards to my job performance. After four months she comes to me and says that I am not meeting expectations. I told her that I felt that I don't have the same amount of time to complete my area as others do. It also seemed like she was not as concerned as I was about things being set correctly *the first time*.
Example:
Me: The shirts on this table were not correctly set last week.
ETL: Blah blah blah flexed blah blah blah.
Me: No, it was an entire stack in size order on the wrong side of the table.
ETL: Blah blah guest blah blah.
Me: I don't think it was a guest who moved an entire stack of new DPCI shirts and put them in the wrong spot on a recently set table.
ETL: Grumble....
Or....
Me: I reset these Denizen tables a couple of weeks ago and it looks like nobody else cares about it.
ETL: Blah blah part of the zone blah blah
Me: No, when whoever set *THAT* table (points to Wrangler table behind us) just threw the Denizen product that was on it on the remaining tables.
ETL: Blah blah guests did it blah blah
Me: I know what guests do, and this is not their work.
Or...
*While working in Baby Basics/Infant Hardlines/Whatever you call it... the Diaper aisle and waiting about 15 minutes for a new PDA battery
Me: These are NOP.
ETL: Blah blah *scans with PDA* they aren't discontinued.
Me: Yes, that's why I needed the battery... so I could scan them and figure out where they go. All I know is they don't go here.
ETL: Flex them in.
Me: You want me to flex in a higher price point item, unsigned, into an already crowded aisle? (My state can get real *****y about price accuracy).
ETL: Blah blah you need to finish your zone.
Me: This aisle has not been zoned at night during any shift I've worked in the past month. In fact, it looks like the only people that have been in here are guests, backroom, and flow.
ETL: Yes, blah blah blah you're taking too long.
Me: I'm sorry that I'm trying to do a good job but if you want it done right things have to go in the right spot.
Anyway, here is the "unfortunate" part:
I was a seasonal hire who didn't find out he was working in softlines until his first day. I needed the job, so I couldn't turn it down. I was also told that I would be trained in hardlines by the ETL that hired me. He has since moved away and transferred. I suck at folding, so it takes me longer to do it. There are days where I bring stuff back to the fitting room at the end of the night because I didn't have a chance to re-hang the 50+ clearance items that were thrown on the floor throughout the day.
To paraphrase my ETL to the idea of me changing workcenters:
You aren't doing a good job in the workcenter that you don't want to work in/don't have the experience working in/are not goot at the task. Unfortunately, we can't move you to a new workcenter that you might actually want to work in/have the experience working in/good at the tasks until you show improvement in the job that you're probably not going to get any better at.
And before you say "talk to your ETL-HR or STL", I have tried that already. They are not helpful.
Example:
Me: The shirts on this table were not correctly set last week.
ETL: Blah blah blah flexed blah blah blah.
Me: No, it was an entire stack in size order on the wrong side of the table.
ETL: Blah blah guest blah blah.
Me: I don't think it was a guest who moved an entire stack of new DPCI shirts and put them in the wrong spot on a recently set table.
ETL: Grumble....
Or....
Me: I reset these Denizen tables a couple of weeks ago and it looks like nobody else cares about it.
ETL: Blah blah part of the zone blah blah
Me: No, when whoever set *THAT* table (points to Wrangler table behind us) just threw the Denizen product that was on it on the remaining tables.
ETL: Blah blah guests did it blah blah
Me: I know what guests do, and this is not their work.
Or...
*While working in Baby Basics/Infant Hardlines/Whatever you call it... the Diaper aisle and waiting about 15 minutes for a new PDA battery
Me: These are NOP.
ETL: Blah blah *scans with PDA* they aren't discontinued.
Me: Yes, that's why I needed the battery... so I could scan them and figure out where they go. All I know is they don't go here.
ETL: Flex them in.
Me: You want me to flex in a higher price point item, unsigned, into an already crowded aisle? (My state can get real *****y about price accuracy).
ETL: Blah blah you need to finish your zone.
Me: This aisle has not been zoned at night during any shift I've worked in the past month. In fact, it looks like the only people that have been in here are guests, backroom, and flow.
ETL: Yes, blah blah blah you're taking too long.
Me: I'm sorry that I'm trying to do a good job but if you want it done right things have to go in the right spot.
Anyway, here is the "unfortunate" part:
I was a seasonal hire who didn't find out he was working in softlines until his first day. I needed the job, so I couldn't turn it down. I was also told that I would be trained in hardlines by the ETL that hired me. He has since moved away and transferred. I suck at folding, so it takes me longer to do it. There are days where I bring stuff back to the fitting room at the end of the night because I didn't have a chance to re-hang the 50+ clearance items that were thrown on the floor throughout the day.
To paraphrase my ETL to the idea of me changing workcenters:
You aren't doing a good job in the workcenter that you don't want to work in/don't have the experience working in/are not goot at the task. Unfortunately, we can't move you to a new workcenter that you might actually want to work in/have the experience working in/good at the tasks until you show improvement in the job that you're probably not going to get any better at.
And before you say "talk to your ETL-HR or STL", I have tried that already. They are not helpful.