NIGHT STOCKING IS HARD FOR ME SOME PEOPLE SAY ITS EASY LOL BUT IT'S NOT ITS NOT REALLLLL HARD BUT ITS HARD YOU KNOW. ON MY BODY MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY.......................
Yep, they depend on a handful of guys to cleanup a store everynight after a 100k days while day crew scans groceries, hob-nobs with customers and counts the money like Mr. Drysdale. Not much actually gets done in the day other than grab that dollar, its upto the nightcrew to get it ready. I've been in our store in the day and never seen such a waste of hours, by the standards the night crew is held to the day some crew would have been fired long ago.
Funny thing is when its time to cut hours they go straight to nights. If it don't get into the shelf then its not there to buy, then you don't really need that cashier of bagger. They do get their priorities ****ed up. Dry goods takes up more floor space than any other dept.And more than a majority of sales comes from Grocery.
If your un- lucky enough to get a greedy store mgr that wants nothing but his bonus and kudos for running a store on bare hours then your really screwed.
Putting 40-50 cases in the shelf isn't hard, but keep in mind the Keebler Elves don't spot it, break it down,crush boxes or unload a trashed fallen over truck and then the isle has to be blocked. Its alot to cleaning up a isle after a good days sales. Its the cost of doing business then they want you on the isle for 2-3 hours so you can jump on another. Figure in 2 breaks at 15 min and your down to 7.5 hours to clean it all up. If you have 2 isles thats 3hrs45min each for 2 isles figuring in the breakdown,trash,blocking. Which is what most stockers work. Its a physically demanding job alot of people don't want but the day crew can't do.
Yep, they depend on a handful of guys to cleanup a store everynight after a 100k days while day crew scans groceries, hob-nobs with customers and counts the money like Mr. Drysdale. Not much actually gets done in the day other than grab that dollar, its upto the nightcrew to get it ready. I've been in our store in the day and never seen such a waste of hours, by the standards the night crew is held to the day some crew would have been fired long ago.
Funny thing is when its time to cut hours they go straight to nights. If it don't get into the shelf then its not there to buy, then you don't really need that cashier of bagger. They do get their priorities ****ed up. Dry goods takes up more floor space than any other dept.And more than a majority of sales comes from Grocery.
If your un- lucky enough to get a greedy store mgr that wants nothing but his bonus and kudos for running a store on bare hours then your really screwed.
Putting 40-50 cases in the shelf isn't hard, but keep in mind the Keebler Elves don't spot it, break it down,crush boxes or unload a trashed fallen over truck and then the isle has to be blocked. Its alot to cleaning up a isle after a good days sales. Its the cost of doing business then they want you on the isle for 2-3 hours so you can jump on another. Figure in 2 breaks at 15 min and your down to 7.5 hours to clean it all up. If you have 2 isles thats 3hrs45min each for 2 isles figuring in the breakdown,trash,blocking. Which is what most stockers work. Its a physically demanding job alot of people don't want but the day crew can't do.
Our store has every single thing you described going on including the manager, except we also have a cliche from the head grocery to all the department heads and night leaders, abusing their work schedules, showing up when they want, taking ALL of the over time WHEN HOURS ARE CUT due to bad sales on normal employees, and then they order 800-1200 piece trucks for 3 people to throw up, stock, block, do backstock, do specialty carts, fill survey, and expect it all to be done with no complaint, we are unlucky because our store manager and grocery manager, live and treat things like it's still 1970 when they had it tough, times have changed, thats why we have the union.
