u/therealmegluvsu

Southeast Michigan got hit hard by a storm that knocked out power in a lot of areas. My store's market team and several redundant fulfillment team members spent all day emptying the coolers into dumpsters. DTE (monopolized regional power company) has our restoration estimate for 11:30PM on Tuesday. Power went out around 7ish on Friday.

There's no way replacing all that product every time the power goes out is less expensive than the maintenance on a generator dedicated to keeping even just the main backroom freezer and the main backroom cooler powered. If power goes out and appears to be staying out, all hands to grocery, shove as much as we can in the freezer and cooler, respectively.

Am I just overestimating how much the entirety of cold grocery costs or underestimating the cost and upkeep of a generator? Pretty much anyone from metro Detroit can back me up, DTE sucks and their infrastructure goes down way more than it should for what we pay them.

My store's AP has been just the APTL for a couple weeks and the previous TSS...wasn't a ton of help, it sounds like. APTL doesn't know when she's getting her hands on me, she says she's waiting on someone to hit the final "yes" and told me she was going to annoy ETLHR on their next overlapping day.

Here's the thing. She says one way or another, she needs to have me transferred over by the 6th for a release that she says we're required to have AP on site during, and she is unable to be there on that day. Previous TSS left the store unexpectedly.

She says she doesn't believe it's actually needed, that it's just a warm body to satisfy upper leadership, because there's no reason to think the release is going to be a madhouse and the LODs are more than capable.

I have anxiety. Someone without a stake in this please tell me my anxiety is unwarranted. Been with Target since 2018 as a GSA/S&E TM. 😭😰😭