Archived When I was new...

[Leonhart621]

When I was new, I was nice and quiet guy.

Not anymore.

 

[GSAhole]

When I was new, I didn't know there was even a such thing as a GSA position. I thought they were all GSTL's until several months in when I befriended one of the GSAs and she explained it all to me.

Little did I know, I'd also get to experience for myself the "joys" of that position which I first didn't even know existed.

 

[BadWolf4531]

When I was new...

• Flexible Fulfillment didn't exist
• P-Fresh didn't exist
• GSAs didn't exist
• Specialists did exist

Biggest mistake I made (this was a few months in) was doing a return for a guest at the checklanes as opposed to sending them to the Service Desk. In my defense, service desk was backed up, the lanes weren't, and I was service desk trained. My GSTL still coached me on it though.

 

[redeye58]

When I started, there were 'cashier supervisors' instead of GSTLs.

 

[OffYaPhone]

When I was new...

• Flexible Fulfillment didn't exist
• P-Fresh didn't exist
• GSAs didn't exist
• Specialists did exist

Biggest mistake I made (this was a few months in) was doing a return for a guest at the checklanes as opposed to sending them to the Service Desk. In my defense, service desk was backed up, the lanes weren't, and I was service desk trained. My GSTL still coached me on it though.

Hmm...I do SD-related things at the register all the time if it's not too busy. Weird.

 

[vendordontmesswithme]

When I started Specialist and Team leads actually own their depts. Pog and spls got set. Dept zone. Mdse purged from backroom.

 

[Codeteam15]

I thought cart attendants made the store go round.

A good one?

Oh hell yea...

At my store A+ volume when I was a Cart attendant I'd do all my core roles baskets around the store bathroom checks keeping the carts full. I also would hop on register before the gstl/a had a chance to call for backup. I'd also cover gsa/gstl bresks run GS help with photo pull flexes push cafs zone some hardlines while pushing reshop pull autofil batches from the backroom. Set up end caps (plano team is swamped and the team leads are lazy) in other words if I was working it didn't matter if we were slow I was always working going above and beyond. Now I'm a new in role(one week) sr gstl went straight from cart attendant to my current position. What helped me was as a CA the DTL knew me by name and would actually meet with me during visits. But when I was brand new to Target no one cared about redcarts.

 

[PriceQueen]

When I was new, I started in softlines, and I would often get asked to zone the basics walls, or jeans/yoga pant walls. So I went in eagerly, thinking maybe if it looks super perfect, people won't want to mess it up... Ha!

 

[Nauzhror]

I thought cart attendants made the store go round.

Pretty sure they do.

I'd rather run the lanes myself with just a cart attendant than have a bunch of cashiers and no cart attendant. (That is, assuming I can't make one of the cashiers into a honorary cart attendant for the night.)

 

[BlueSide]

Pretty sure they do.

That's what I thought when I thought the front end was the whole store.

 

[Nauzhror]

It pretty much is. I mean, we schedule people for salesfloor, sometimes, but lets be serious, those are just backup cashiers scheduled in another workcenter to hide hours.

 

[tgtfla]

so long ago that most of you will not even realize that when I was new Target was actually an amazing place to work , I know it's hard to believe but we had leaders who knew what they were doing and who cared , now we have a conveyer belt for burnt out bosses and target is now just like most other retailers a place to work

 

[PinkZinnia]

My first week the gstl came over to my register for something - I don't remember what it was - she started showing me what certain buttons were for on the register. I finally said to her. That's enough buttons for today. Come back another day, I need to absorb what you have just told me.
A few months later she told me that that first week she thought I was just some stupid lady they hired and didn't think I would last past the first month.
She ended up being the one who pushed me to be GSA.

 

[jenna]

When I started Specialist and Team leads actually own their depts. Pog and spls got set. Dept zone. Mdse purged from backroom.

and research. Research was actually done correctly by TLs that knew their departments.

 

[Nauzhror]

and research. Research was actually done correctly by TLs that knew their departments.

research, by TL's? We schedule TM's as Instocks to do Research. Usually three of us get scheduled, one does research, one pulls, the third pushes.

 

[Hardlinesmaster]

research, by TL's? We schedule TM's as Instocks to do Research. Usually three of us get scheduled, one does research, one pulls, the third pushes.

In the old days, Tm's did research.

 

[Txcpht]

research, by TL's? We schedule TM's as Instocks to do Research. Usually three of us get scheduled, one does research, one pulls, the third pushes.

Well it used to be that team leads would completely own their departments. We did our own research and set our own sales planners. We pulled our sales figures for weekly team lead meetings and actually cared about our sales. In those days stores actually looked better.

 

[indigo25]

Was told to zone B-Block starting at the front of stationary. No one told me what exactly that meant so I spent 30 minutes struggling to zone the greeting cards. >_>

 

[Txcpht]

I started in a really old store that was a little rough to work in. On my second day my trainer came to check on me in shoes and asked why I was taking so long. I explained that I was trying to find all of the missing mates for the single shoes I found. She said, "Oh no! We don't do that! " I was very shocked, but it suddenly made shoes so much easier.

 

[legend2828]

Was told to zone B-Block starting at the front of stationary. No one told me what exactly that meant so I spent 30 minutes struggling to zone the greeting cards. >_>

I thought zoning meant super zoning so I spent a ton of time in books and DVDs and the LOD was like tf are you doing but understood when I told them what was up

 

[jenna]

research, by TL's? We schedule TM's as Instocks to do Research. Usually three of us get scheduled, one does research, one pulls, the third pushes.

Yep.

And any decent TL could get it done, and it worked really well. A TL should know their areas better than anyone, and know what's out of stock and what to research.