Well next week in the deli at my store we have very few hours to work with. Other than the one full timer we got, I'm the only one with over 34 hours. This week we have 100 less hours than the same week last year though sales are up 25%. All this after our asst. dept. manager transferred to another store freeing up 40 hours a week.
And on the front end, only one cashier has 30 hours, the rest have mid to lower 20's. We have had at least 7 cashiers quit for the low hours they were getting. HOw can this be. I had to go back into the store tonight to pick up a prescription and noticed only 2 registers were open and it was busy as crap.
So going into the busiest week so far this year, WHERE THE HELL ARE ALL THE HOURS?
On the bright side(sarcasm alert!), we are getting 2 new people next week. We are going to have so much time to train them! (more sarcasm!)
Well let's see. Customers will be filling their baskets with things for Thanksgiving. They will probably be spending more for their holiday meal. Kroger has them trapped. Who cares how long they have to wait in line - it's not like they're going to put their groceries back and go shop somewhere else. Perfect time to cut the payroll. Repeat at Christmas.
I think it may partially have to do with your store manager. Where I work, my store manager has told all department heads to heavily over schedule. That started a couple of weeks ago and is supposed to continue through New Year's. I'm assuming permission needed to be obtained to do this from someone within the district, unless it's a district-wide thing, but since that's happened, the departments are definitely better staffed. So it could be your store manager that, for whatever reason, has decided now is the time to cut back on the hours.
Our manager has over schedueled EVEN THOUGH BEING TOLD TO CUT HOURS. Why? Because it's Thanksgiving, which is one of the BUSIST times of the year. (Doesn't take a genius to figure that one out..) our lines are such a cluster****, that there is literally a "line" to get around those in line, and a "line" to go down an aisle. And EVEN with all our help we are STILL slammed.
