Anyone else have to go to LA to help prepare a store for a visit from the Board of Directors? My store is slammed, I have three open support jobs and two new CXM's, how am I supposed to get our holiday projects set and keep up with trucks hitting throughout the week if I have to travel to LA and spend a week making things look pretty for the BOD?
This is a perfect example of why our culture needs to change. We are just 42 days from Thanksgiving and I will be losing a full week of preparing my store and will be exhausted when I get back to a huge backlog of freight and late projects. Every time they ask me to go to another store to help prepare for a visit it's a waste of my time and I end up doing the work that an hourly support person should be doing.
My store manager said that we do this so that the payroll doesn't hit the visit store and it doesn't look like we pulled in people from all over the West to clean up a store before the visit. Store teams should be responsible for their own visit prep and not rely on getting help from stores that can't afford to give it just to put on a pretty show for visitors. I think the BOD would prefer to make sales plan and maybe not have seasonal goods waiting in stockrooms and on the dock to get to the sales floor.