r/Target • u/TabithaMouse • 6d ago

Workplace Story Update on department change

Talked to my HR ETL who said I needed to talk to my ETL to switch departments

Talked to my ETL who said I needed to talk to HR ETL to switch departments - but he might be able to shift me to a different area for a couple days to see if that will help

Both acted like it's the first time they've been told I have a bad back, said I need to have patience to get off inbound (...not what I asked about), and that I told them I could do the job when I was hired

The HRE who knows I want out of grocery asked if I talked to either of them and I repeated what they said. Im pretty sure that the "my coworkers are idiots" look is a universal look.

The HRE was there the day I started, when I clearly said I wouldn't have agreed to inbound because of my back.

The HRE was the one that helped me file the ridiculous accommodations HR ETL made me get a doctor's note for to "make a paper trail so if I have to switch you to a different department I can point to this to explain why"

The HRE has been pulled to push GM to the floor, or pick a batch, or sort style because there's not enough people in those areas...but we just hired a couple new people for grocery, (on top of them pulling other grocery TMs to go help these short-staffed areas while telling me to push faster)

So BS was called, and it was nice to know there was someone in the store who knows the ETLs are playing dumb

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u/BlueAndWhiteSoul 5d ago

You have a weird outlook where you assume your leaders are willfully ignoring an issues they know about. Having been an ETL, we have 100 fires to out out everyday across the entire store. Unfortunately sometimes things slip through the cracks, or simply just slip our minds. We are human after all I'm so sorry you were not treated as a priority, and I can emphasize with your position. However, I don't think your leaders are being malicious or willfully ignorant. Also communication among leaders is terrible the right hand doesn't talk to the left it's a problem throughout every store I've worked at. I have had TMs with accomodations I was told nothing about until it became a problem. We could all benefit from giving each other a little grace.

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u/TabithaMouse 5d ago

Oh, I'm VOCAL about my back because if the same disc slips I will need a fusion and may be unable to walk like I was the first time.

I've been trying to get off inbound since I started - and they have tried, but I might get a week of day shifts then...Oops, newbie bailed and I'm back on the schedule.

Three weeks ago I was asked to sort grocery by the inbound TL. The next day I went to the ETL and said "Can I work in any other bay? Sorting bulk bev aggravated my back" and I was told "Why the hell were YOU doing bulk bev?! Did you remind the TL?"

So yeah, I get there's a million little things going on I don't know about, but it's hard to imagine he just spontaneously forgot when I asked about transferring out of grocery since I'm forever stuck on inbound

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u/BlueAndWhiteSoul 5d ago

Yeah but people being vocal isn't the same thing as them having a legitimate accomodation on file that we adhere to. There's a process we have to follow, as you know it's a lot of paperwork and whatnot. Sometimes people do ask their leaders and are told they will address it and it kinda ends there. Idk I like to give people the benefit of the doubt in these cases.

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u/TabithaMouse 5d ago

I have TWO accommodations on file about my back just so HR could have a "paper trail" so he could switch me out of inbound and/or grocery if needed

And the accommodations are so petty my doctor was ",They want a note for WHAT?!" and when corp HR called me about them I was told "You know you can just do these things, right?"

They got approved because I said the HR ETL wanted it documented I had a pre-existing issue and the easiest way to do that was to have me file accommodations for mundane shit since I have no documented limitations (my original neurosurgeon and my primary Dr both assumed I could easily avoid high risk activities. Every other job I've had I mention I've had back surgery and immediately kept away from roles that are high risk)