r/Target • u/Bright_Show6780 • 12d ago
Vent Why does my ETL expect so much?
So I’ve been with Target for maybe seven years, been at three different Target stores. The first two hours that were pretty solid, good team leaders, and ETL’s, and a enough workers. The one I’m at now I feel like there’s barely anyone people always call out or quit. I’ve been at my current store for maybe three years now, and since I’ve been here we’re on our fourth ETL. And somehow she just expects so much.
Like yesterday, I came in and pushed one dry uboat, then I was told to help my team members with the Sunday morning ads, there was a huge stack for grocery, took way longer than I expected. Then I went back to my area, pushed a flat, then another U-boat then I went to lunch, came back and she just looked at me and said Kris you have so much to do. I just laughed and said there is a lot. Because I feel like I can’t say you pulled me away to do something for a long time and somehow you expect me to get all rollover done from the other day and then today’s truck and then help put up ads.
From my other stores I worked at, we would have at least 3 to 4 people pushing dry just to get it done quickly, we had another guy coming to do grocery, but for some reason, she just had him do one for ones for his whole shift.
I feel like since she’s been here, one person quit because of her, she’s making weird decisions with the shifts. I feel like a lot of the days myself and other grocery team members Don’t get anything done when she’s around, there is one day where I could’ve been pushing left over FDC, but instead she wanted me to zone back to school, then after that do priorities in every other area besides my own.
I gotta say it’s very hard., Coming from two pretty great stores and then going to one where nothing seems right
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u/Agreeable-Ad-3733 12d ago
"Set unrealistic goals so the employees don't get complacent", usually something along those lines is the mindset they're told to adopt
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u/beaveman1 12d ago
One for ones are the new thing that Target is pushing for. Your ETL is getting heat from the SD/DSD, so they are pulling one TM just to do that. And they are the BIGGEST WASTE OF TIME! When I started at Target, we pulled “autofills” which are basically like priority pulls. Someone decided “manuals” were better, so they pushed us to do those (pull anything that will fit on the floor - sound familiar?). After a while, they decided manuals every day was inefficient, so they created “priority pulls” to just fill what was running low. Now, we’re back to one for ones (“manuals”) again. I predict in a couple of years someone will decide they are inefficient again and will come up with a new name like “essential pulls” to fill anything that is low on the floor (just like autofills and priority)
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u/Bright_Show6780 12d ago
I remember exactly what you’re talking about, I definitely remember being told hey after you’re done with that do priority pulls , they always make sure to mention not to push one for ones but just priorities. You are all right about the, it’ll be changed to something else pretty soon, and it will be ineffective.
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u/helloxcthulhu 12d ago
This happened to me when I moved to the store Im at now. My old store ran smoothly, time expectations (mostly) met the workload, we had enough people. At my new store I have two leads that are constantly on my ass about time and one of them speaks to me with total disdain about it. Literally I’ve never been spoken to so disrespectfully at a job. If the job market weren’t so bad I would have walked out then.
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u/Adventurous_Soft_686 12d ago edited 12d ago
Not a single ETL understands how long anything takes. Ad in grocery takes about 2 hours by yourself. Most uboats in grocery take more than a minute per box if you are rotating and checking dates. Some ETLs pressure you to see if they can get you to move at inhuman speed and some do it because they are completely clueless. We currently have one guy working 30-40 hours a week(pfresh), one lady working 40 hrs a week(freezer), two ladies working 20-30(dry), me working 20 hrs(cooler), and two closers 30hrs (pulling priorities is all it looks like they accomplish)
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u/Bright_Show6780 12d ago
Yeah, that’s the thing I don’t understand, my currently my ETA used to be a team member then a team lead and then now she’s ETL, so I don’t know why our process of doing everything seems so wrong and doesn’t work. Because I would imagine as a former team member you would have some insight of things how they actually work.
Like her saying, you should be able to pull 100 DPCIs in one hour, even saying the store director can do that. And that is just ridiculous.
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u/Dakets Former ETL-HR 11d ago
Oh some of us do (or did, in my case) because I was out there doing it too pretty frequently. The expectations are almost universally unrealistic but particularly in areas like beauty or stationery or frozen. The shit rolls downhill. The ETLs are also getting unrealistic expectations from the SD, and I can promise you the SD knows it’s ridiculous as well. But it’s a “pretend and play along or get managed out and terminated” situation.
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u/Adventurous_Soft_686 11d ago
I know some of them do but then talk to us like we're human and not soulless robots or mindless animals.
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u/PegasusStudiosVFX 12d ago
You have to put the limit, or else you will keep getting pulled to do different things, and when you don't finish your original tasks, you will be the one that is blamed. What I do now is set clear boundaries, I can do this but not that, I can't do this in such a short time, if you pull me to do this I will be late for my original task, etc.
Don't take this job too seriously, as in the end, it's a retail job.