I'm a regular poster here but choose to post anon because of I guess I'm a bit paranoid. Anyway if you're at my store you'll know who I am if you know me personally.
I started as a bagger last year. A certain co-manager took immediate interest in me. He got me a cashier quicker than people hired before me. He said that he wanted me in customer service once I turned 18. Later he changed his mind and wanted me in the meat department when I turned 18. When that time came my CSC asked if I wanted to be in the office or meat. I said the office. I now work there and love it.
Here is the dilemma. They need more people in meat. There is a sign up sheet for anyone that wants extra hours. They can sign this to work on the meat department. The same co-manager approached me and asked that I sign the sheet. I already have 5 days a week where I work. I'm afraid of I sign that sheet I'll slowly get more and more meat shifts. I've seen other people slowly taken out of departments against their choice and don't want it to happen to me.
Should I sign it? I don't want to but realize without this man I wouldn't be where I am today.
Finally if you know who this is please don't let anyone else know.
Are you a lifer or using kroger to get into some other field?
Are you gettting 40 hours a week currently?
Are you full time?
If you are not interested, don't sign it.
If you are curious, volunteer for one day a week. And, no, the comanager can not promise you anything to the effect that it will only be one day a a week.
In our store, the meat department is a separate contract and no one else in the store can touch their product unless they are in the meat department union.
Are you a lifer or using kroger to get into some other field?
Are you gettting 40 hours a week currently?
Are you full time?
If you are not interested, don't sign it.
If you are curious, volunteer for one day a week. And, no, the comanager can not promise you anything to the effect that it will only be one day a a week.
In our store, the meat department is a separate contract and no one else in the store can touch their product unlitess they are in the meat department union.
OP Here. It's just a job after school for me. I get about 25 but always stay over or come in early and get about 30_40 after that. That answers your question about part time.
We also have a different contract for meat workers. No one is supposed to be there that hasn't signed it but they are desperate. I already know what it's like. I've worked many shifts there and occasionally am scheduled there. I hate it compared to the front end.
Like what others said, don't sign and don't feel guilty. You do what you believe is best for you.
I'm sure your CSM values you, hence why you're where you are now. And if he does value you even more, he'll fight to keep you in customer service. My FES did the same with me to keep me from working in the back.
Ultimately though, only the Store Manager can forcibly remove you from your current post and put you in meat, but by the sound of it, he wouldn't care if you stay put.
And yes, meat department is their own world with often a different union (hence why most Kroger stores I visit has a different UFCW sticker than what's at the front of the store). If you did move, remember that you'll fall back to the bottom of the totem pole and get crappy shifts.
Yes. You should be riddled with an all-consuming sense of guilt. Shame and remorse must whittle away at your soul until nothing remains but a burnt husk. And in the quietest, darkest hours of the night, you should start, popping out of your blanket, eyes wide open and peering into the nothingness of the dark, blinking away fears unspoken and the existential horror of Being.
Yes. You should be riddled with an all-consuming sense of guilt. Shame and remorse must whittle away at your soul until nothing remains but a burnt husk. And in the quietest, darkest hours of the night, you should start, popping out of your blanket, eyes wide open and peering into the nothingness of the dark, blinking away fears unspoken and the existential horror of Being.
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Yes. You should be riddled with an all-consuming sense of guilt. Shame and remorse must whittle away at your soul until nothing remains but a burnt husk. And in the quietest, darkest hours of the night, you should start, popping out of your blanket, eyes wide open and peering into the nothingness of the dark, blinking away fears unspoken and the existential horror of Being.
Dude... that's some deep stuff. It's like a modern day Edgar Allen Po(e?)