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So I got to meet our new ETL-LOG at the huddle today. He was more than eager to tell us his whole life story. Here are some highlights:
1. He graduated from are a major state university magna cum laude (said that like 3 times) with a bachelors degree double major in Criminal Justice & Political Science with a double minor in Business and Sociology. Also has like 5 IT certifications.
2. Spent the last year working for the feds doing something with immigration.
3. Spent the year before that as an investigator for his states office of the inspector general
2. Spent the last two years before that as a probation officer.
3. Spent the last three years before that working for the state police.
4. Spent the year before that as an IT tech at Verizon.
5. Apparently his wife moved across the country for some big job she got, so he had to come here with no job connections.
I may have gotten the time he spent doing all that off a little, but that is basically it.
So all during his life story I kept internally shaking my head saying "Dude, WTF are you doing here?". The sad thing? He seems completely oblivious to what he is walking into.... I don't think he has any clue just how different working retail is compared to where he is coming from.
I give him a month at most. Not even being sarcastic. I think HR gave him the "you will be an EXECUTIVE" speech making him think he would be working in some corporate type position. And I don't give him a month at most because he won't be able to handle it.... absolutely the opposite. He comes across as the rare kind of guy who will absolutely own every other ETL in short order and dominate simply because he is that good.
It is super clear that this guy is the real deal and could probably land a job six times better than an ETL.... and probably will. His personality, manner of talking, hell even the way he dresses in red and khaki just "wows" you compared to our ETLs with zero real world experience. The way he talks to people isn't "I'm better than you" either. It is a really sincere "I am confident as hell, but I'm a professional, and as far as I am concerned so are you"... and he doesn't have to say it. You just know it. No way he is sticking around.
On the upside, he seems about 30 years old and I can already tell will definitely be running circles around every other ETL we have within a week even though he has never worked retail. He comes across that competent and legit, and pretty much every TM I talked to about it agrees with me on that.
Our electronics TL told me that on Friday our DTL was walking the store with our STL. This guy approached our DTL, after about 5 mins of talking our DTL completely blew off our STL, then this guy and our DTL left the store together and rumor is they went and had lunch at some restaurant, they both came back to the store, and they spent about an hour going all over the store. Apparently, this is the first time he had ever met our DTL. Talk about balls.... and our DTL must have been incredibly impressed with whatever it was he was saying to him because no one has *ever* seen our DTL hang out in our store with anyone for over 15 mins... not even our STL. Let alone leave with them for lunch.
I'm eagerly awaiting to see how our lazy and completely inept ETL staff handle someone like this showing them up.
Oh, and I also find it hilarious they didn't give him an ETL-AP or district AP job. Glad to see HR is on the ball....
1. He graduated from are a major state university magna cum laude (said that like 3 times) with a bachelors degree double major in Criminal Justice & Political Science with a double minor in Business and Sociology. Also has like 5 IT certifications.
2. Spent the last year working for the feds doing something with immigration.
3. Spent the year before that as an investigator for his states office of the inspector general
2. Spent the last two years before that as a probation officer.
3. Spent the last three years before that working for the state police.
4. Spent the year before that as an IT tech at Verizon.
5. Apparently his wife moved across the country for some big job she got, so he had to come here with no job connections.
I may have gotten the time he spent doing all that off a little, but that is basically it.
So all during his life story I kept internally shaking my head saying "Dude, WTF are you doing here?". The sad thing? He seems completely oblivious to what he is walking into.... I don't think he has any clue just how different working retail is compared to where he is coming from.
I give him a month at most. Not even being sarcastic. I think HR gave him the "you will be an EXECUTIVE" speech making him think he would be working in some corporate type position. And I don't give him a month at most because he won't be able to handle it.... absolutely the opposite. He comes across as the rare kind of guy who will absolutely own every other ETL in short order and dominate simply because he is that good.
It is super clear that this guy is the real deal and could probably land a job six times better than an ETL.... and probably will. His personality, manner of talking, hell even the way he dresses in red and khaki just "wows" you compared to our ETLs with zero real world experience. The way he talks to people isn't "I'm better than you" either. It is a really sincere "I am confident as hell, but I'm a professional, and as far as I am concerned so are you"... and he doesn't have to say it. You just know it. No way he is sticking around.
On the upside, he seems about 30 years old and I can already tell will definitely be running circles around every other ETL we have within a week even though he has never worked retail. He comes across that competent and legit, and pretty much every TM I talked to about it agrees with me on that.
Our electronics TL told me that on Friday our DTL was walking the store with our STL. This guy approached our DTL, after about 5 mins of talking our DTL completely blew off our STL, then this guy and our DTL left the store together and rumor is they went and had lunch at some restaurant, they both came back to the store, and they spent about an hour going all over the store. Apparently, this is the first time he had ever met our DTL. Talk about balls.... and our DTL must have been incredibly impressed with whatever it was he was saying to him because no one has *ever* seen our DTL hang out in our store with anyone for over 15 mins... not even our STL. Let alone leave with them for lunch.
I'm eagerly awaiting to see how our lazy and completely inept ETL staff handle someone like this showing them up.
Oh, and I also find it hilarious they didn't give him an ETL-AP or district AP job. Glad to see HR is on the ball....