Metro marketers will now have 4 stores to manage instead of 2 stores. That is IF you can actually get the 4:1 job. They still haven't disclosed how these said jobs will be obtained.
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Speaking as a metro marketing TL, they are double the number of stores we are going to be responsible for in the next month. They told us today.
Yes. At our store in [unnamed] we were without an ASTL for six months. They finally lucked out when someone wanted the role and relocated like 1000 miles from another region. The reason? Because it was training to ultimately go to almost 100% travel, constantly rotating amongst 3 or 4 stores they assigned to one "metro area." Problem: The stores in the "metro area" were 180 miles apart! Two were clustered in the same city, the third was 90 miles south and another one was to be added 90 miles north. They've expanded too far, too fast and now can't benefit from having metro operations in any true sense of the word. Metros with stores almost 200 miles apart aren't metros at all.
Our metro marketing TL is stretched so thin between multiple stores and it's almost impossible to get a hold of her. She seems frantic going from store to store, sometimes in the same day. I'm torn on this one because I watched previous marketing TLs (before the lay offs and creation of a metro position) f*ck around, not get things out in a timely manner, and shirk any customer issues on the floor onto another TM. But asking 1 person to run around and coordinate a marketing presence for multiple stores is ridiculous.
Metro ATL and ASTL positions have existed in my region for a bit now. It seems rather inconsistent on how these positions are defined city by city as their implementation seems to be at the whim of STLs and higher. When my city got a 3rd store we went "metro" with these positions and the original concept was to switch out ATLs and ASTLs between stores every so often as to build leadership skills, but this honestly never happened but maybe once. Instead of building leadership skills all it did was leave ATLs and ASTLs at the mercy of STLs who may not haven taken too kindly to them, but whom couldn't pull up a paper trail to terminate someone who was disliked. I saw it become more of a "Oh, ____ is underperforming let's send them to X store because we can do that now" type of thing. Stupid idea all around.
You can't have kronos without an ATL. That program is a disaster of monstrous proportions and my TLs spend more time correcting and redoing the schedule for our team with it. I can't imagine them putting it all on one person. Or maybe I can. This is WFM after all.
In the Austin metro it meant an ATL was subject to be rotated between stores periodically.
Since they are dumbing down some of the duties for tl and atl positions with kronos and our new cash up prrocedures here in florida region they want to test down sizing some positions..new layoofs on horizon?
Never heard of that but I know that the metro marketing positions are a joke. They can't seem to fill them down here.