At our kroger there are three cleaners 1 in the bakery & 2 in the deli & they are worked hard.In my opinion they each do a good job but our managers &store managers don't agree.Some nights they have alot of stuff to clean others nights very little because of them we have passed 4 eco-lab inspections.Lately our dep.manager(which no one likes) have been pushing our cleaners hard 1 she threated to fire numerous times & another 1 she has working all seven days with no break & threatens to fire him as well.All I wanted to know is if you have cleaners how are they treated?
Yea your store sounds pretty ****ed up if you actually need cleaners. They tried doing it at mine but luckily it failed. Deli/bakery closers at my store are lazy as **** though. They wait until the last trash call to bring back all their cardboard and trash when the baler is full and the compactor is reaching its limits. And then they'll make some smartass comment like, "well it's not MY fault that xxx didn't make a bale." Actually if you have a functioning brain and a pulse, you too can make a bale! Just because you have a service counter doesn't mean you can't eventually come back here to get your ****ing supplies that have been back here longer than most DSD receivers have been with Kroger. Our frozen manager literally has to scream over the intercom to get a deli/bakery clerk to unload their frozen pallets. If a frozen truck regularly comes at 5pm with frozen load, then write a note to first shift that they should be making space in the freezer. Or do it yourself. And one last thing, please please please shut the hell up about the whole "morning crew vs evening crew" bull****. You're a TEAM. And not a very good one because of your idiotic in-fighting. Maybe if you realized that newbies everywhere get the ****ty shifts, you'd work hard to get the better shifts. If that sounds pointless to you, just find another job please.
In my division (Atlanta) we have utility clerks that were forced into our departments. Their main job is to clean. I appreciate everything they do. They were brought in to bring deli/bakery wages down. We have utility clerks in all of our perishable departments. It's not because we can't clean, it's so your top pay/more experienced employees can take care of customers.
I am also in the Atl division. The utility clerks at our store tick me off. They are always leaving things nasty that we have to clean up in the morning. The trash cans are the worst. They never ever rinse them out and they friggin stink! Never wash down our carts. ugh.
We have two deli cleaners and one bakery cleaner in the evening. The deli cleaners love to leave full trash cans, dirty friers, and meat crumbs on the slicers. One closer has two right ups, one is on probation, and the other has been suspended. It's getting ridiculous. When I first started two years ago, we had a great closing team. We'd be done cleaning by 8 with one slicer open for those late customers. (Our deli closed at 10 at the time.) All but two people have gone on to better jobs.
Our bakery cleaner is fantastic, but her hard work gets destroyed by the night shift baker who likes to leave 2-3 hrs early with half of his/her work unfinished. The only way 1st shift ever comes into a clean bakery is when we don't have a baker the night before. 1st shift generally tries to leave the department clean, so the closer doesn't have much to do. We've actually annoyed her several times, because she came in and only had to do the floors lol.
On the subject of bales, EVERYBODY should know how to and should make them. Seriously, it's not that hard and only takes about 10 minutes. It always annoys me when I ask for someone to help from my department and they say it's not their responsibility. If you put boxes in it, then you are responsible for emptying it when it's full.
Tying a bale is easy. You just put the wires in the top and bottom holes, when they poke through the front, tie em up and realese the bale onto the pallet. I learned as a courtesy clerk. Not that hard to do. 5-10 at the most.
