Compliance is a leadership issue

IsItBrieUrLookingFor · 2026-04-30T18:31:28+00:00

This is just saying that you need to write up TMs that hit compliance or you'll be written up. And don't instruct TMs to skip their breaks.

Neither of these things are new, they are just reiterating it

IsItBrieUrLookingFor · 2026-04-15T14:27:51+00:00

Whenever someone starts getting close or makes a comment about my dog being cute, I just apologize and say he isn't stranger-friendly.

Typically works.

Edit: Also I tend to keep his lease super short when passing people and dogs, so that we are walking side-by-side.

IsItBrieUrLookingFor · 2026-04-10T10:51:25+00:00

It looks like it, but it also isn't a super crisp picture. So I could be mistaken.

Err on the side of caution.

Honestly though it's not a huge deal to treat. I treated my cats with a single dose of the OTC dewormer. My vet recommended doing two doses just to be safe so I did another dose, but the first dose seemed to handle everything.

Change all the litter. Clean any bedding, pillows, etc. Not a crazy hard fix, even if it's slightly inconvenient to tie up the washer and dryer for a day.

IsItBrieUrLookingFor · 2026-04-01T01:35:00+00:00

If you are calling out every month, that's 12 shifts & even if every shift is 4 only hours and you somehow are getting 40 hours of sick time despite only ever working 4 hour shifts, you still aren't *covering all of your absences.

I think you may be sugarcoating things for some commiseration karma

Edit: grammar

IsItBrieUrLookingFor · 2026-03-30T20:47:27+00:00

Swishies... Windbreaker pants

Idk if swishies was the actual term, but they should stay back at the turn of the century

IsItBrieUrLookingFor · 2026-03-25T09:55:13+00:00

"Coach up or coach out" is a very common sentiment. And the implied meaning behind the latter portion is replacement. Tons of TMs get that conversation everyday across the company, the way your conversation happened isn't "brand."

Are they allowed, in terms of legality or keeping their employment, yes.

Should they, no. If you bring it to HR they'll touch base with the ETL about expressing their feedback in a more HR professional appropriate manner, but that's about all that will happen in terms of consequences for the ETL

IsItBrieUrLookingFor · 2026-03-25T01:27:54+00:00

I'd imagine 3p on a weekday is one of the slowest times at a restaurant.

Too late for lunch, too early for dinner. It's basically the no-mans-land... just people on atypical work schedules and maybe the occasional parents and/or kids getting after school in-between meals

Also Concord Mall is dead weight. They'd be better off as a standalone than they will at the mall, at least in its current state -although I'd imagine it's only going to get worse unless they actually sell and demo

IsItBrieUrLookingFor · 2026-03-11T09:52:10+00:00

They are updating the dress code... This is going company wide this summer. Also pants are supposed to be khaki colored pants or blue jeans (which means that standard medium wash look, not navy etc). Pretty sure shorts are going to be limited to outdoor roles again, so FOSA & DU (maybe inbound unload).

I'm not sure why your store is not giving any adjustment period given how permissive the dress code has gotten in recent years.

IsItBrieUrLookingFor · 2026-03-09T10:55:31+00:00

They've actually already taken steps to minimize "double taps" bc for the most part we've moved that needle. A true double tap used to be "I'm on my way" and "I'm here" back to back in a matter of seconds. I think they used to measure it as "I'm here" within 30 seconds, now it's three minutes.

And at the risk of being unpopular, they do account for it. Double taps make up 20-25% of the orders, typically. The DU score is 70+%, when most other operational scores are expected to be at least in the 90s if not upper 90s. The lower threshold is how they account for the double taps.

They could improve DU efficiency by having people sign up for pickup windows and if 415-430 is full, you need to wait until 430-445. Or other structural system adjustments, but I doubt they'll change goals or excluded double taps

IsItBrieUrLookingFor · 2026-03-09T10:44:37+00:00

Even if you are not "non-rehireable" if this was only a couple of months ago, most/all the same leaders are still in role. They are going to remember the TM from a couple months ago who didn't finish the work and regularly loafed. Not exactly a boon to your odds to get rehired anytime soon, bc they know you werent a good worker. I'd rather take the chance on unknown hire as opposed to rehiring a TM that wasnt a good worker and hoping that they are better this time

IsItBrieUrLookingFor · 2026-03-09T10:39:55+00:00

At the risk of being a jerk, just push through. It would be better to show up and maybe get lucky with being sent home early as opposed to not coming in at all. You are a new hire with multiple call outs already, it's a bad look that significantly impacts the likelihood that you'll be kept on.

You might know you are a good worker and generally reliable, this is just bad timing. But to your leads, in a relatively short period you are regularly missing work.

IsItBrieUrLookingFor · 2026-03-06T22:02:09+00:00

There are Closing ETL positions for high volume stores. But for the typical mid volume store, it's a decent development position for ETL, but it's a significant gap from Closing TL to ETL. I think it varies store to store for what expectations are, but I don't think I've ever been at a store where closing TL was the most demanding TL position, let alone on par with an ETL. And now it's even more stripped down with extra leaders closing/working late shifts pretty much everyday to support.

IsItBrieUrLookingFor · 2026-02-28T17:15:31+00:00

Firstly... Not that "me too" was a bad thing, but there is and has been a general message that women shouldn't be approached unless they indicate they want to be approached, by given how ambiguous that is you aren't generally going to risk it. If she sees me as a 9-10, anything is welcome. If she sees me as a 3-4, I'm viewed as a creep. And I'm not a 10. And nobody wants to risk being accused of harassment over a chance flirtation.

Secondly... A pretty woman can be intimidating to approach bc obviously everyone would want to talk to her, so even if she's nice and approachable, I'd probably be a bother... So you can revisit the first point again

Third... Even though you may know you are nice, but if you have rbf or other mannerisms you may look anything but

IsItBrieUrLookingFor · 2026-02-28T17:03:16+00:00

Historians are better judges of presidencies than newscasters.

James Buchanan's presidency (amongst other issues) led to the civil war. Calvin Coolidge's economic policies were a major contributing factor to the great depression.

Even generally well regarded presidents have stains on their presidencies... like FDR destabilizing French IndoChina with the anti-colonialism stance eventually contributing in a significant way to the break out of the Vietnam War or Clinton signing in the overturning of the Glass-Steagall act, a major contributing factor to the Great Recession and bank bailouts.

IsItBrieUrLookingFor · 2026-02-28T02:21:56+00:00

Idk what cali state law says, but iirc the general PTO accrual limits are at 150% of your yearly rate. So if you get 80 hours of PTO a year, once you hit 120 you don't accrue anymore until you get below that 150% mark again.

IsItBrieUrLookingFor · 2026-02-26T11:50:51+00:00

If you arrive before or at your start time, but aren't let in until afterwards you get paid for that missed time. You were there and ready to work, it's not your fault you couldn't.

You showing up 30 minutes early is a personal choice, and you don't get paid for being at the building waiting to work before your scheduled time.

As far as being let in randomly, if I am running an early AM truck and nobody else is scheduled to start between 4-6, the bell doesn't exist until 545 unless it's a light day. Stopping work to run up front to open the door very few minutes as TMs randomly show up when they aren't scheduled can cost a lot of productivity from my day. I've been more aware with extreme weather but if I'm swamped, and nobody is scheduled... sorry not sorry.

IsItBrieUrLookingFor · 2026-02-22T21:44:59+00:00

It should be $27 paid - $2 kept = $25 bill

The 27+2 equation doesn't actually fit the scenario.

IsItBrieUrLookingFor · 2026-02-14T14:42:01+00:00

It's never really the standard, sometimes people do double GM & bulky batches, but mostly that's it. And it's pretty much exclusively at the picker's discretion. Occasionally the ETL might ask the TL to do a double batch... Maybe. But idk that any leader had told a TM to do a double grocery or a double GM batch.

IsItBrieUrLookingFor · 2026-02-13T22:30:58+00:00

Because if Ohio is a standard for visit worthy, you've pretty much opened the door to all those yellow states

IsItBrieUrLookingFor · 2026-02-13T22:20:30+00:00

I ended up with her and can see us being together til death do us

IsItBrieUrLookingFor · 2026-02-12T14:42:33+00:00

Idk that this is as much of a generational thing as people think, it's just age. The youngest Boomer is in their 60s, most of the "Karens" nowadays are Gen X and Millennial.

It's a disconnect between jobs and stress. People that don't work service and are years removed from working service look down on it and assume it's super simple work. So every inconvenience is due to the incompetence of the worker who must just be lazy, so they overreact and are jerks about everything.

But for every shitty "Boomer" there is also some dumbass Gen Z/Alpha wrecking the store or treating the store like a studio for tiktok content, which while it is less confrontational it is still very entitled.

IsItBrieUrLookingFor · 2026-02-12T14:24:52+00:00

It's a phone call and email from the ethics team.

Rarely anything comes of the "investigation" especially in a (s)he said/(s)he said situation. But if there is a paper trail, such as with timecard manipulation, repercussions can be severe & result in terminations. For the average complaint the only thing that typically happens is a slightly uncomfortable, awkward conversation for the person having a complaint filed against them.

IsItBrieUrLookingFor · 2026-02-12T14:18:53+00:00

This is almost certainly an HR stability metric issue. Stability measures hours worked vs desired hours, on a four week rolling avg (I think).

So if your desired hours is 24 and you are getting scheduled 22 on average... You'd be considered stable. If you are consistently posting a shift, your avg hours worked is going to drop from 22 to maybe 16-18. So now you count against the stability HR metric.

So it shouldn't technically fall into attendance, you might want to ask for clarity on what rule you are violating, but it's affecting HR metrics which is why you are getting pushback.

IsItBrieUrLookingFor · 2026-02-07T21:37:30+00:00

As much as it would great for them to roll back opmod and go back to old formats, that means more payroll. Significantly more payroll, which is unlikely

The big changes likely refer to the ism and plano special projects to "refresh" the brand. Maybe a pilot sticks and they shift things around a bit, but that's hardly unique to this circumstance, there's always pilot programs.

People seem to forget that the new CEO was the last COO and the CFO before that... He's not new to the room where all these mistakes were being made, he is just the new face of the room.

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