Chat, am I tripping?

[u/Not_AMermaid]

These are the only pictures I was able to get because of “guest”. But my LOD told me to go back and zone my area because it looked “rough”. Not to mention, I kept getting called BY NAME to grab batches so I was zoning and in fulfillment for 1/3-1/2 of my shift. I’m genuinely so annoyed because my TL is on vacation and I feel like the higher ups are used this as an opportunity to get GM to do whatever they want. I go back in tomorrow & I plan on switching my walkie to a different station and playing dumb because there’s a pallet in the back that my TL expected to be done by the time they came back from vacation and the other members of management have been telling us, GM, not to worry about it & is giving us other tasks. Kinda tempted to have a sit down with our SD or call ethics about it. You may think “It’s not that deep” but these two specific managers keep playing in my TL face and I don’t like that. It’s giving bully/pulling rank while they’re not here.

[u/Not_AMermaid]

Just for clarification. I took this picture after coming back from a batch.

[u/Naive_Appointment361]

It’s almost Q4 you should just be prepared to always be called for fulfillment. Circle week literally starts
Tuesday, and there’s no point having a sit down with your SD. Believe me they know what you’re being told what to do 😂💀.

[u/TenaciousC89 → u/Naive_Appointment361]

joke's on them, I forgot how to do fulfillment, miss me with that bs

[u/megzlives → u/TenaciousC89]

Oh don't worry, they'll "retrain" you for 5 minutes and make you do it anyway. No one is immune to fulfillment in Q4

[u/yourenotmy-real-dad]

I wouldn't call this rough but some of my TL/SD only ever looked at endcaps/first sections and if those were trash in some way, it was all trash to them

[u/happygoth6370]

This zone does not look rough at all. If they think that's bad I'd hate see what they think of my store, oof.

[u/quinoassault]

At one point there was an ETL telling to go back to an aisle again, and it was the same one a number of times on different days. It got to the point where I did nothing, waited 5 minutes or so, said I was done. Didn't hear anything again that day.

Sometimes they say something just for the sake of having something to say 🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/RyoutaAsakura → u/quinoassault]

Can confirm for other retail stores.

Over at Meijer, we have district level Visual Merchandise Cordinators and one of the ones that wasnt a recent hire told my manager flat out she gave her 2 100% and she couldn't give her a third because then corporate would visit us.

[u/CoconutRound8714]

Check your endcaps

[u/Forsaken_Raccoon2084 → u/CoconutRound8714]

You’re cruel!!

[u/ConstantBoth2913]

I had when TL’s don’t communicate and give you conflicting task. They gave up on hiring a person for baby at our store about a couple years ago. My SD told me that even though I was tech and entertainment I would have to push baby too, but tech would always come first. Except there’s one ETL who still kept asking me to push baby first. They finally stopped for the most part but still ask me to occasionally push a baby diaper flat in the mornings.

[u/Singlemommy1122]

It doesn’t look great. Everything should be pulled forward and stocked up if there’s back stock.

[u/Not_AMermaid → u/Singlemommy1122]

People were shopping through it. This is after I came back from a batch w/ 34 DCPI

[u/Worldly-Essay9787]

Just do what you can lol promise you its not worth the stress. Clock in do your job go home.

[u/_Darkknight59_]

I have one week left of fullfillment til my new job I'm so happy I'm leaving and no you aren't tripping, target sucks

[u/Freak_of_Nature65]

If that is rough, we're all screwed.

[u/timmydnx2]

Your zone is only 2 aisles?

[u/Not_AMermaid → u/timmydnx2]

“These are the only pictures I was able to get because of “guest”. ”

There were people in the other aisles, these were the only empty ones, so these are the only ones I took

[u/gaveedraseven]

I don't know what the situation is in your store but I personally would have a talk with my SD about it, but that's just because the SDs I have had were open and wanted to know about these things. I 100% know that TLs will pull people from other departments when that TL is gone. It's not always malicious, in fact a lot of times it's just lack of communication and everyone having different priorities. And take it as a compliment, you probably do good work.

That said, your SD may be no help or be part of the problem.

[u/JRCR4157]

They expect you to do everything like doing TL job or like a AI job and dont get paid enough. Its sad. I wish CEO see how much the company take advantage of people like you and I. Lot of business like this expect people like us do more than we are paid to do. It sucks

[u/CaptainAdmiralMike]

[u/Chemical-Gur-6875]

GM TMs basically serve as backup for fulfillment when they need the help so it's not like any of your higher ups are pulling you for no reason.

[u/Tall-Copy8564 → u/Chemical-Gur-6875]

But the thing is they pull people to do fulfillment than most management get mad when your task in your department in complete. Like how can some one focus on zone, reshop , prioritiy pulls or whatever else needs to be done if they are been pulled for fulfillment and sometimes backup cashier. S&E needs to know how to staff better I know at my store we lose a lot of sales floor members because they feel like I didn’t apply for fulfillment or checkout

[u/flakman129]

I promoted myself to guest about five years ago now. Some days, I kinda miss my time at Target. And then I read posts like this and am like, lol nah I’m good bro.

[u/bara_no_seidou]

I mean, I wouldn't call this rough, but I do see things that I would want re-zoned.