If you are part time, can you possibly get extra hours by helping out other departments? Of course, this would have to be after you completed your hours in your own. How would this work?
If a department needs help from an associate from another department usually that person will just be scheduled one department on a particular day and another department the other days... If the department needs help right away then usually the department head will ask the person if they want to extend their shift on a certain day as long as that person doesn't work more than 40 hours in a week or 8 hours in a day.
Example: hey Bill I see you're bagging for 4 hours today. I had somebody quit in my department so you can work 4 more hours and help me out to cover for the lost hours.
If a department needs help from an associate from another department usually that person will just be scheduled one department on a particular day and another department the other days... If the department needs help right away then usually the department head will ask the person if they want to extend their shift on a certain day as long as that person doesn't work more than 40 hours in a week or 8 hours in a day.
Example: hey Bill I see you're bagging for 4 hours today. I had somebody quit in my department so you can work 4 more hours and help me out to cover for the lost hours.
If Bill is a bagger then he can't stock, condition, order, or do anything useful for another department (barring GM's candy and cigarettes of course). So Bill the bagger is pretty much stuck with his 16 FE hours until he becomes a clerk and can move around. You can thank the union for that. :)
If a department needs help from an associate from another department usually that person will just be scheduled one department on a particular day and another department the other days... If the department needs help right away then usually the department head will ask the person if they want to extend their shift on a certain day as long as that person doesn't work more than 40 hours in a week or 8 hours in a day.
Example: hey Bill I see you're bagging for 4 hours today. I had somebody quit in my department so you can work 4 more hours and help me out to cover for the lost hours.
If Bill is a bagger then he can't stock, condition, order, or do anything useful for another department (barring GM's candy and cigarettes of course). So Bill the bagger is pretty much stuck with his 16 FE hours until he becomes a clerk and can move around. You can thank the union for that. :)
It depends on the contract.
We were allowed to use CC's as stockers for certain shifts. Just like how they can pull cashiers to do other crap.
The only thing they can't do use have Front End work in a service department.
If a department needs help from an associate from another department usually that person will just be scheduled one department on a particular day and another department the other days... If the department needs help right away then usually the department head will ask the person if they want to extend their shift on a certain day as long as that person doesn't work more than 40 hours in a week or 8 hours in a day.
Example: hey Bill I see you're bagging for 4 hours today. I had somebody quit in my department so you can work 4 more hours and help me out to cover for the lost hours.
If Bill is a bagger then he can't stock, condition, order, or do anything useful for another department (barring GM's candy and cigarettes of course). So Bill the bagger is pretty much stuck with his 16 FE hours until he becomes a clerk and can move around. You can thank the union for that. :)
It depends on the contract.
We were allowed to use CC's as stockers for certain shifts. Just like how they can pull cashiers to do other crap.
The only thing they can't do use have Front End work in a service department.
Also, there is a difference in many contracts between a "bagger" and a "courtesy clerk". I can literally have anybody on my front end be a bagger; it's just what they're scheduled that shift. Courtesy clerk, however, is an actual job class.
If a department needs help from an associate from another department usually that person will just be scheduled one department on a particular day and another department the other days... If the department needs help right away then usually the department head will ask the person if they want to extend their shift on a certain day as long as that person doesn't work more than 40 hours in a week or 8 hours in a day.
Example: hey Bill I see you're bagging for 4 hours today. I had somebody quit in my department so you can work 4 more hours and help me out to cover for the lost hours.
If Bill is a bagger then he can't stock, condition, order, or do anything useful for another department (barring GM's candy and cigarettes of course). So Bill the bagger is pretty much stuck with his 16 FE hours until he becomes a clerk and can move around. You can thank the union for that. :)
It depends on the contract.
We were allowed to use CC's as stockers for certain shifts. Just like how they can pull cashiers to do other crap.
The only thing they can't do use have Front End work in a service department.
Really? At my store, cashiers are occasionally pulled to work in Bakery or Floral.
If a department needs help from an associate from another department usually that person will just be scheduled one department on a particular day and another department the other days... If the department needs help right away then usually the department head will ask the person if they want to extend their shift on a certain day as long as that person doesn't work more than 40 hours in a week or 8 hours in a day.
Example: hey Bill I see you're bagging for 4 hours today. I had somebody quit in my department so you can work 4 more hours and help me out to cover for the lost hours.
If Bill is a bagger then he can't stock, condition, order, or do anything useful for another department (barring GM's candy and cigarettes of course). So Bill the bagger is pretty much stuck with his 16 FE hours until he becomes a clerk and can move around. You can thank the union for that. :)
It depends on the contract.
We were allowed to use CC's as stockers for certain shifts. Just like how they can pull cashiers to do other crap.
The only thing they can't do use have Front End work in a service department.
Really? At my store, cashiers are occasionally pulled to work in Bakery or Floral.
Some contracts specify that employees can't cross job tasks. Yours, like mine, basically has the effect that the only difference between a cashier and a deli/bakery clerk is that my cashiers probably don't know exactly what a pudding cake is.
^This. Every single time there's bakery go backs, the cashiers/cc's will blankly look around to find where the item goes. So not only do they not know what it is, they don't know where it goes.
The bakery isn't even THAT big. Granted, I don't know where every product in the store goes either... it's just funny to see.
