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I was hired to work on the sales floor a year ago as a team member, but am now a team lead, and I've gotta' tell you this has been by far and away the worst job I have had, and I've had quite a few. The pay absolutely SUCKS with this company, I know it's only retail and pay ALWAYS sucks in the field, but what the hell does it mean when pay is "competitive"? Everyone who works in the retail field are part of the working poor class so who the hell cares if pay is competitive. Crap is crap no matter what the amount, it's not as if we are impressed. Also, morale in the store I work at is absolutely non-existent, no one shows any enthusiasm, energy or thought for the job. No one smiles or even bothers to go out of their way to ask customers if they can ask them to find something like they are supposed to. Even though I worked myself to a team lead there is no "real" growth opportunity within this sorry-ass company and it doesn't look like there will be for anyone else in the near future as they continue to cut team member's hours (few work more than 20-25 hrs/wk).

Also, I think most you have hit the nail on the head when you say that ETL's talk a lot of smack behind the team members' backs when the team members can't perform a specific task when asked, as I've overheard a lot of it myself. The smack that goes on between the ETL's is atrocious, the low lifes. Yeah right, like they are real "competent" themselves when doing their jobs. Most of these idiots have no business being ETL's themselves. Without a doubt they are a huge part of the problem rather than a solution.

Corporate needs to wake up out of its coma and start making changes from the top, but I know that will never happen.