Archived What do you require a TM to be capable of in order to join?

[Unintended BM]

22 cents is good for a cashier. They get really shafted on raises at my store. It seems like there's no in between. You get a good raise or a miniscule raise.

 

[Retail Girl]

It fits the low pay.

You could learn all that stuff and the max you'd get is maybe 13 cent raise.

I truly have moved multiple tms to gsa/pa/elec specialist and even a couple TLS by having them understand that its important to know those things..

Hahahaha. Sorry, but an extra 50 cents an hour for GSA is still seriously underpaid.

 

[Nauzhror]

I agree, and I think the pay difference between GSA and GSTL is insulting as well (to the GSA's of course).

The jobs are so similar that most cashiers can't differentiate one from the other.

 

[whippingboy]

Well rounded people are awesome. If you try hard and know what you're doing, you will move up, in pay and position. If you sit back and wallow in your own despair, then nothing good will come of it.

I appreciate your sentiment and agree with you wholeheartedly. There's an exception to this though, and that's in light of AE14. Heads have rolled, good team members are being benched for promotions for an undetermined amount of time. The good ones are working harder for "free" while they wait for someone to quit, die off or get fired for compliance. You can't just work hard and be rewarded, you have to smile at your peers while at the same time hoping they'll get caught with their pants down.

 

[Unintended BM]

What does it mean to work harder for free? You're getting paid for every hour you put in. I understand that things are tight at Target. We all work or have worked there. That doesn't mean to stop trying because it seems like there's no hope. I guess I'm of the mindset that a job is a job and they're paying you a wage to do work, so I put everything I can into it.

I understand what you mean. People work hard and want something out of it, to move up or get a good raise. I don't have an answer for it. I just know that it's a reality and to not stop trying.

 

[Backroom81]

22 cents is good for a cashier. They get really shafted on raises at my store. It seems like there's no in between. You get a good raise or a miniscule raise.

$.22 is shit. The scale for raises 10 years ago went from ~$.20 to $.60. I get dollar raises at my main job.

 

[Unintended BM]

Yeah, it sucks. That is a high raise for a front end person nowadays though.

 

[Kompa]

It fits the low pay.

You could learn all that stuff and the max you'd get is maybe 13 cent raise.

I truly have moved multiple tms to gsa/pa/elec specialist and even a couple TLS by having them understand that its important to know those things..

those 25/50 cent raises for twice as much isn't much of an incentive

I hate this mindset. I was a cashier, and for three years in a row I got crappy 8 to 12 cent raises, but my last raise was something like 34 cents. The same person who gave me an 8 cent raise the year before gave me the 34 cent raise. You know what I did? I worked hard. I suck at getting redcards, so I asked to be trained at the service desk, and I tried really hard to be good at that. Since then I've gotten multiple $10 giftcards from various TLs and ETLs for helping out. Small bonuses, but still bonuses, and I've since been moved to a higher paying position in the store. Higher paying than all of my raises combined.

Yes, Target pays poorly, but it's a job. Work hard and you will be recognized. I was put on CA for redcards, and I got a good raise the year after because I did a good job. Ask to be moved somewhere else in the store if your current TLs don't like you. My TLs didn't like me, but I won them over by being good at what I did. Maybe you're not so lucky, but go to a different area of the store. Try it out. It's good to be well rounded. That's the whole point of this thread. Well rounded people are awesome. If you try hard and know what you're doing, you will move up, in pay and position. If you sit back and wallow in your own despair, then nothing good will come of it.

That may fly for front end where good Cashiers can make GSA, but it's worth jack squat for Flow. I've help get our unload done in record times, training new unloaders,I never call out, and the time I did, I ended up coming in anyway, on a snow day. I know the entire Backroom process including receiving. I surpass the "1 box per minute" limit by a huge amount and I'm certified on the machine. You know what may last raise was? 13 cents. You know what my first raise was? 22 cents. This doesn't make sense.

In Flow you don't get rewarded for "working hard." The people who do the hellish summer unloads, then backstock the heavy blackline get paid the same amount as the people that hang up clothes in softlines. I wish there was a distinction between Flow Stockers and Unloaders. I feel that the Unloaders/Backroom should get paid the same amount as DC, the people who load the trucks. That way, even though there's no room for improvement, you're at least getting "paid for working hard"

 

[rockchalk]

The key, in my opinion, if the type of leader you are. If you make the work environment friendly and even fun on occasion, treat the tms like competent adults (not like children that need watched and hounded) and give positive feedback you will get the desired results. The LOD sets the tone. I notice a definite change in level of work effort depending on who is the LOD. It's really hard to get motivated to care about your job when the LOD is negative and treats everyone in a poor fashion. People work harder and faster when they feel appreciated.

 

[consume]

The key, in my opinion, if the type of leader you are. If you make the work environment friendly and even fun on occasion, treat the tms like competent adults (not like children that need watched and hounded) and give positive feedback you will get the desired results. The LOD sets the tone. I notice a definite change in level of work effort depending on who is the LOD. It's really hard to get motivated to care about your job when the LOD is negative and treats everyone in a poor fashion. People work harder and faster when they feel appreciated.

I agree, positive attitudes towards your team is how you get positive results from them. That may look like a lot to ask, my team not only loves to know it all, but are exited to tell me what they got accomplished.