Adventures in Silicon Valley: The Corporate Ladder
(Warning: The following post contains a large amount of jargon associated with Target Corporation. Those that have never worked for Target may be lost. Deal with it.)
If you read my last post you'll remember how I mentioned that my superiors already loved me. Apparently I underestimated just how much. I thought my first two days were good. So imagine my surprise when my direct executive calls me into her office and tells me that she wants me to be a team lead. This quite obviously had a positive ripple effect on the rest of the day. Let me put this into perspective for you...
I've worked for Target for upwards of two years. At my old store I was jumping around a bit and seen as a person with "advancement potential". However, whenever I tried to advance, I was rejected. I was told and even assured on several occasions that I would advance. Things like "We'll get you trained" or "keep letting us know you're interested and something will surely happen". Vague things like that. At a certain point I became fed up. With the executive[s] who assured me of certain things and the promotion system altogether.
I eventually convinced myself of a few things. 1) If I want to find a really great job, I needed to leave Butte County. 2) If I wanted to advance in the Target company, I needed to distance myself from the person or persons I felt were holding me back. 3) In order to grow as a person I needed to do something drastic like putting myself in relatively unfamiliar surroundings and trying to succeed. I've done all three of these things in one fell swoop and I'm happy to say that I've received almost completely positive results. Still haven't made any friends, though.
Anyways, I've spent the last two days speaking with several executives. Hard lines, Human Resources, Guest experience, Store Team Lead. They all want me to be a lead. And this is far more support than I'm used to. I had to really work to get the support of my team lead and direct executive at my old store. So having this many people urging me to apply for an upward move is a little jarring.
Then they tell me that I'm going to have to start wearing button up shirts and maybe even ties. Sign me up! Anyone who knows me knows I love wearing nice clothes. Even when I don't need to.
So, to sum up, things at my new job are going well. I would have to find a superb job opportunity for me to consider leaving target at this point. I already really like it there.
If you read my last post you'll remember how I mentioned that my superiors already loved me. Apparently I underestimated just how much. I thought my first two days were good. So imagine my surprise when my direct executive calls me into her office and tells me that she wants me to be a team lead. This quite obviously had a positive ripple effect on the rest of the day. Let me put this into perspective for you...
I've worked for Target for upwards of two years. At my old store I was jumping around a bit and seen as a person with "advancement potential". However, whenever I tried to advance, I was rejected. I was told and even assured on several occasions that I would advance. Things like "We'll get you trained" or "keep letting us know you're interested and something will surely happen". Vague things like that. At a certain point I became fed up. With the executive[s] who assured me of certain things and the promotion system altogether.
I eventually convinced myself of a few things. 1) If I want to find a really great job, I needed to leave Butte County. 2) If I wanted to advance in the Target company, I needed to distance myself from the person or persons I felt were holding me back. 3) In order to grow as a person I needed to do something drastic like putting myself in relatively unfamiliar surroundings and trying to succeed. I've done all three of these things in one fell swoop and I'm happy to say that I've received almost completely positive results. Still haven't made any friends, though.
Anyways, I've spent the last two days speaking with several executives. Hard lines, Human Resources, Guest experience, Store Team Lead. They all want me to be a lead. And this is far more support than I'm used to. I had to really work to get the support of my team lead and direct executive at my old store. So having this many people urging me to apply for an upward move is a little jarring.
Then they tell me that I'm going to have to start wearing button up shirts and maybe even ties. Sign me up! Anyone who knows me knows I love wearing nice clothes. Even when I don't need to.
So, to sum up, things at my new job are going well. I would have to find a superb job opportunity for me to consider leaving target at this point. I already really like it there.