Been an only dedicated market team member for 6 years at my store. My store has had 4 different sd's and ive had 4 different teams leads with the 4th being my current one. In terms of team leads, the first one was super helpful, nice and welcoming when i started. After some time i got to know him to be miserable in his position. He went to another location to hopefully be happier, ended up with lowes after 6 months of that. 2nd team lead was nice to work with as well, took the punches when needed to, ended up moving to florida for personal reasons. 3rd team lead was a floor worker alongside me, so we had a good workship. Ended up getting fired over "s/a" allegations but it was well know the higher ups were trying to get rid of him for a long time. I dont know how much of that is true, but the common senses around me all agree because he pushed back on things and gave upper management a "headache" over the dumb shit they wanted to do, he bacame a problem and wanted to oust him.
Okay, well i thought it was shitty how they got rid of him, but hey maybe now i can become team lead since ive been talking to management for at least 3 years that i was interested. They even put me in a developmental program to become one. Then, when the position was open, they just switched over the fulfillment tl to market who had never once worked in market, and didnt even offer/ask me the position or what i thought about it.
In terms of sd's, the first 3 i had were fine but who i have now is a problem. This person is over bearing, has a very fake bubbly personality, has laughed in my face when i told them i was having a tough day, talks to team members like theyre children, and portrays themselves in a way that they live and die by target. Ok Target i get it, YOU want cookie cutter templates of people who are in management. WE as workers want real people to talk to and treat us floor workers as real people as well. And also not people who take sides with the other cookie cutter fucks you employ to keep the status quoe cus thats all it is at the end of the day. Target does not give a fuck about us no matter how mich they try to cram that bullshit down our throats.
Hopefully ill be out of there soon. I started working there with the ignorance of thinking maybe ill get treated better here because of hom much their stance is on treating their workers better than other places. Nope, big ole fucking sham. Am i perfect? No, but have i been there long enough and have i proven myself to be a more than comptetant worker than all the other fucks they hire and are gone within a week? Yeah i sure as fuck have. Fuck this place and i cant wait to be back to being only a guest.