Archived What happens when a food TL demotes

[Hardlinesmaster]

Good chance, you will get market too. Spot might be putting that tl on ca for performance.

 

[glo]

Yeah, Food TL should have more than Market at this point in time and I don't think Food Service TL exists in stores without both cafe and Starbucks.

 

[dmx2k1]

Dang sucks to here all these people denoting. It is hard to manage all three, I wonder if they'll change it down the line. My problem is right when I put out one fire another one starts lol. Luckily my starbucks has gotten better since I took over and cleaned up the previous tl mess.

 

[redeye58]

What's disheartening is that their solution is for the Food TL to have 'strong' TMs in each area - SB, market/FA, etc - but not every store has a strong team or TMs to assist.
This is where specialists could make the difference but they were an asset eliminated in 2010.

 

[HRZone]

Yeah, Food TL should have more than Market at this point in time and I don't think Food Service TL exists in stores without both cafe and Starbucks.

It depends on your org chart level. Issaquah has a fstl who only has Starbucks and a consumables tl who just oversees market.

My store has a tl who has market cafe and Starbucks

 

[BigEyedPhish]

He may need to go to a different store too. Just curious, was he Market before, or Starbucks?

This almost entirely depends on how manys stores/per mile radius.

My old CTL works at my store after stepping down, and I am now actually higher on the totempole.'

PS*

Just read they were a Sr. TL, if that is the case I have no clue, as they have codes/Keys, etc.

 

[squirrely]

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I do "grunt work" with my team. Not only do I feel it helps me earn their respect, but sometimes the only way to see issues, is to work right alongside them. I'm not saying I always do, but at least once a week I'm doing price change, pushing truck, or setting POGs (SLTL) along with my LOD shifts. I agree that it helps to have strong TM's to help you. I have one who excels at truck, and honestly, she runs truck. I have my go to adjacency setter and one for price change. I can't see everything, so it's nice to have TM's that I can count on.

 

[scbman]

Going through the same things here. My Grocery shifts are either on an FDC day where I'm scheduled to push all of dairy or produce/meat, or on a day where I am sole coverage until a closer comes in with no overlap. When we went end to end in food, one of my PA's that's been here since I started quit, one was promoted to another store as TL, and last one went off to college. My ETL & STL asked me to come up with some names of good TM's that I would want to have on my food team, then ignored that list and gave me the few Flow TM's they could convince to do food (nothing against Flow TM's, but having someone who was already trained on SF would've been a plus), and promising them set schedules, then getting mad when the TM's sometimes want those, so we started a new process with an entirely new team. Of course there's no experience pay bonus to try and get some good people from other grocery stores

My ETLs expect my dry TM's to pull/push autofills, push/backstock RDC, completely zone the department, and god forbid they have one item in reshop, in a 5 hour shift, while the Pets/Chemical closers who only have to zone and reshop, get 8 hour shifts. We'll smart huddle a single pallet of toys but I can't get freshness friday to happen. Something else always "comes up"

My new ETL thinks a "good cull" takes 15-20 minutes, and when a guest's child got a hold of a bakery date gun and labeled wine for that day, asked me why I had expired wine on the bakery table . We're getting a starbucks added (we have Cafe now) next year and I'm probably going to try to get out before then

 

[glo]

We're getting a starbucks added (we have Cafe now) next year and I'm probably going to try to get out before then

I'm in the same boat. I have a solid core team, but the rest aren't that great and have been unreliable. And that core is people that I chose. Everyone else was flow that wanted more hours and a couple of hires I never interviewed. I feel like, if I try to get anything outside of pushing done, the whole process falls behind. The monthly endcap resets take me two weeks plus just because I can't make time to get to them.
I had a phone interview with a recruiter for a nearby grocer and got an answer back today. Will be interviewing soon. Can't wait to get away from this broken work center.