I asked the union rep today if the union could make Kroger give us more help and she said no. I do not understand the union at times. My store is a marketplace and we have a skeletal crew to work that store. It is not working with not enough help. The union rep said that Kroger is telling the union that it is not the wages that is keeping people from quitting it is the department head fault for not training people the right way. I told her that it was the wages that is why people will not stay. At my store we have lost a of of people with time who got a job with coke cola making $19.00 a hour. I have 30 years with Kroger and I will finally get to 15.00 a hour next year but that still is not enough to live on with how high groceries are utilities etc. Kroger does not care about their employees. They want you to work for $1.00 a hour probably more like .50 a hour. Can the union do anything to get more help?
You are given so many hours per ELMS per sales, etc. You need to train people to do what they are supposed to be doing in those hours in a perfect world. Quit whining and make it happen.
It is a free market world. If a person can make more money elsewhere, then they should go as fast as possible. The only people Kroger wants to pay well are the Department heads. Anyone below them, all they want is a warm emotionless body that can deliver robotic brainless work productivity. So, train your robots well.
Can't train the employees to tell them to **** off when they are called up front 10 times a day. Then they can't get their jobs done and it is whos fault they didn't train them well?
Can't train the employees to tell them to **** off when they are called up front 10 times a day. Then they can't get their jobs done and it is whos fault they didn't train them well?
Someone needs to keep track of how many minutes are spent "up front" each shift for a couple of weeks. Then, request that those minutes are deducted from the front ends Elms hours and given to your department so you can get another body to replace the hours that keeps getting stolen.
The key word above was "perfect world". I have watched Weekly hours decrease for the schedule and sales increase over the years. Then, new timing programs are introduced. It appears, time keeps vanishing from these timing programs. I guess most people are disoriented due to low morale and don't even notice. At one time, I had 49 hours and 49 minutes to condition the grocery department each week. We went to DDP and now I only get 48 hours to do the same plus wine, liquor ,beer and the aisles grew by linear feet. I just had Natures' Market cased stock and conditioning added to my workload and have not yet seen the hours I am going to be allocated for that. They better not try to give all the Natures' market hours to the blue totes person. They don't even condition anything from their department or run the backstock from the full cases. The blue totes sit around for 3-4 days. I have been counting cases and watching. I see how much time I am being tricked into giving away for free. We used to get atleast 2 hours for sorting kmp. It doesn't show up anywhere now on the DDP.
With the recent new hires they sent me, they must be very desperate for warm bodies. One out of 20 might be worth a damn.
Can't train the employees to tell them to **** off when they are called up front 10 times a day. Then they can't get their jobs done and it is whos fault they didn't train them well?
Someone needs to keep track of how many minutes are spent "up front" each shift for a couple of weeks. Then, request that those minutes are deducted from the front ends Elms hours and given to your department so you can get another body to replace the hours that keeps getting stolen.
The key word above was "perfect world". I have watched Weekly hours decrease for the schedule and sales increase over the years. Then, new timing programs are introduced. It appears, time keeps vanishing from these timing programs. I guess most people are disoriented due to low morale and don't even notice. At one time, I had 49 hours and 49 minutes to condition the grocery department each week. We went to DDP and now I only get 48 hours to do the same plus wine, liquor ,beer and the aisles grew by linear feet. I just had Natures' Market cased stock and conditioning added to my workload and have not yet seen the hours I am going to be allocated for that. They better not try to give all the Natures' market hours to the blue totes person. They don't even condition anything from their department or run the backstock from the full cases. The blue totes sit around for 3-4 days. I have been counting cases and watching. I see how much time I am being tricked into giving away for free. We used to get atleast 2 hours for sorting kmp. It doesn't show up anywhere now on the DDP.
With the recent new hires they sent me, they must be very desperate for warm bodies. One out of 20 might be worth a damn.
I understand the frustration about hours, but taking hours from the front end and adding them to your department is only going to make them need to call you up more as just like your the department the front end does not get enough hours either, so corporate just needs to add hours so that we can take care of customer and provide the customer service that is needed as that is one of our main competitive advantages over the competition
Kroger and the union are in bed together. Both have a very comfortable (not to mention lucrative) relationship in which both get rich off of you while you do the heavy lifting and struggle to pay the bills and for other necessities like food.
Funny how one of the largest unionized grocery store chains in the country is also one of the lowest paying grocery chains in the country.
so corporate just needs to add hours so that we can take care of customer and provide the customer service that is needed as that is one of our main competitive advantages over the competition
you sound as though you believe that the company has a "customer first" business approach. It is pretty obvious that it doesn't. If it did, the shelves would be stocked, conditioned, and backstock wouldn't be overflowing
If there is a minimum-hours provision in the contract, yes. If not, no.
. . . company has a "customer first" business approach. It is pretty obvious that it doesn't. If it did, the shelves would be stocked, conditioned, and backstock wouldn't be overflowing
Where associates are last, customers will not be first.
