So got a call earlier asking if I can give up my next Friday being off, do to he fact that our back up decorator finally put in her notice that she quit effective immediately. Never really gave any indication it was going to happen. Just pow, out of left field.
So anybody else out there experiencing any fellow co-employees just calling it quits on the random recently or in the past? And how did it affect your department? For the better?/Worse?
Our most recent quitter was a teen Courtesy Clerk who was aboard for about 6 months or so. He started refusing to clean the bathrooms and was getting sent home for it so I guess that was a sign of sorts but we were still shocked.
With the exception of teens going to college/getting a better job, there was one "dramatic" example last year with an older cashier who'd been with Kroger for 10 years. She confided with a few of us that she put in her 2 weeks notice. The next day, I relieve her for a break, she clocks out for it...And never came back. She walked out because they took her off the schedule after she gave them two weeks notice.
We had a few quit in like a 3 week span. The pros to that was I get more hours until we get new people in and one of them sucked anyway. The cons to that was the other 2 did work and one of them worked really hard, this puts more work on me. All of them worked closing and I am no stuck with t all. If you want to be the cake decorator, now is your opportunity to let your Lead and management know. Try to grab it before they hire someone else for that position.
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We had a few quit in like a 3 week span. The pros to that was I get more hours until we get new people in and one of them sucked anyway. The cons to that was the other 2 did work and one of them worked really hard, this puts more work on me. All of them worked closing and I am no stuck with t all. If you want to be the cake decorator, now is your opportunity to let your Lead and management know. Try to grab it before they hire someone else for that position.
I wish I could speak up about the back up decorator spot. But I can't even draw a straight line on a piece of paper without some additional zig zags, lol. I just hope it doesn't kick off another week of closing shifts again so soon. I mean we just got one of our other bakery peeps back to help with closing. But that week, she also has plans of being out of town for some summer concerts. And although I know I'd get extra money for taking on more of the chick's hours that left. I don't want to burn myself out too quickly either.
We had a few quit in like a 3 week span. The pros to that was I get more hours until we get new people in and one of them sucked anyway. The cons to that was the other 2 did work and one of them worked really hard, this puts more work on me. All of them worked closing and I am no stuck with t all. If you want to be the cake decorator, now is your opportunity to let your Lead and management know. Try to grab it before they hire someone else for that position.
Also that majorly sucks too that you have lost so many in one go like that. As well as the fact that it will put more work on you as well(kind of how I feel about being put on more closing shifts. I mean I know there was a bad day for em last week when the back up decorator/clerk was on with another girl and folks came in and hardly much of anything was packaged or anything else. And people were witching and upset. But dude, I'm soooo not looking forward to picking up the slack either). But can't really say much, as I just heard the one new dude they hired in Deli, will be leaving once summer is over as well. As he is going back to school full time. And the other new-ish lady hey hired before him, will be needing her hours really cut back as she has another job at a college that is going to be her primary focus.
Not to mention we do have two other more senior peeps plus our back up manager, that could be back up to our main decorator as hey have the experience. However, that is still going to more or less short us though on having either a morning baker(whom the one chick is also) or a person that is really experienced with doing the slack out and can do truck the quickest(which is the other woman), if they start shifting either of them around out of their usual schedules. I mean they can always pull our other bakery person back over from Deli, to help with the regular clerk duties. But yea, we are going to be short a baker or truck/slack out/back up even to the back up manager when she is on vacation person, if they choose to go in either direction, in my opinion.
Our most recent quitter was a teen Courtesy Clerk who was aboard for about 6 months or so. He started refusing to clean the bathrooms and was getting sent home for it so I guess that was a sign of sorts but we were still shocked.
With the exception of teens going to college/getting a better job, there was one "dramatic" example last year with an older cashier who'd been with Kroger for 10 years. She confided with a few of us that she put in her 2 weeks notice. The next day, I relieve her for a break, she clocks out for it...And never came back. She walked out because they took her off the schedule after she gave them two weeks notice.
Damn, I heard something like the latter happening at another store not that far from where I live. It was when we first moved into the marketplace, and our new back up manager was asked to go over there and fill in. Cause a lead person in the bakery dept. got so fed up with stuff and just walked off the job. So initially our back up manager was just filling in. Til they gave him a permanent spot over there.
Just as I was telling myopinion, we are going to be kind of screwed in a way. As they are often saying we don't have enough hours. And even with the more hours, we are kind of going to have a hole somewhere til they can either get another baker or a proper back up for our main decorator.
At my old store, we had a bakery backup just walk off the job. She was pissed at management. Never really talked to her, so I don't know details.
We had a guy become frozen lead, only to give it up after a couple days. He just stopped showing up, so apparently it was so bad he didn't want to just step down.
I got another "They walked out" story though the person wasn't in my department. My dept set the ragequit in motion though.
Many times the closing Fuel Center Clerk would call Front End and request that a bagger take out their trash
This was going on for a few months and apparently, the FE supervisors knew but didn't care enough to report it or tell the baggers not to take out Fuel Center trash (the late night baggers have to clear the lot, help with FRONT END trash, and of course help customers)
Well, one night Fuel Center Clerk made the usual trash request when my CSM was supervising and she was not pleased.
So CSM then tells our co-manager, which leads to co-manager calling FCC telling them it is their responsibility nobody else's.
FCC then leaves the Fuel Center post to confront the co-manager face to face, screaming at them on the sales floor in front of customers. Co-manager tries to calm them down but it's no use, FCC is pissed. FCC loudly declares they quit, tells co-manager to kiss their ass and walks out.
FCC was only part time and had a higher paying Full time job elsewhere.
We have people quit just about daily.
This happens because the company treats them bad, takes advantage of them and doesn't value them.
They can't hire them fast enough for our store.
#dysfunction-junction
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Geesh, I never realized how many folks just walked off jobs. But yea, I can totally picture what you are talking about Anonymous with the Frozen Lead. Some folks seem to be just thrown into it. With or without training and doesn't help when peeps underneath them aren't being cooperative either.
@Lane Hardy-Wow, I don't think anybody too upset for that FCC to quit. Good lordy, that is totally nuts that they would get in a screaming match in front of so many people. To be honest, folks like that kind of scare me. I mean I know folks don't always agree, but what is building up inside of you, or already there, to make you think screaming and hollering is going to get you what you want all the faster?
@Kenny Powers- That totally sucks. But I can believe it about treating folks badly. I just over heard today, that someone was thinking of giving a woman I work with, a write up for not calling in/doing a no show for a shift she didn't even realize she was supposed to have been on. Mainly cause of the fact that she has been working in the chicken shop and very sporadically in Bakery. But someone apparently wrote her in for a 3 a.m. to 11 a.m. for bakery but most likely never changed it in chicken shop. So I think she was thinking she was supposed to have been off that day. But yea, she was telling the union lady about it. And I think they will have it straightened out as I don't think she signed the write up.
Also side question: When the union rep was talking to her. She spoke up loud enough for me to hear her, as I guess she wanted me to be part of the convo too. When she said hat for one the online schedule and the copy of the schedule in the dept. isn't the legit one save for the one in our break room. Which I've heard that before and get that. Even though I know they make revisions all the time to the one in the dept.
And for two(the question I'm wondering if it's true or not), that signing the write up is only acknowledging that they went over what you were being written up for. And not an admission of guilt. But makes me wonder, do the managers explain that part to the person that is getting the write up or no? Cause I'm sure for some folks they think if you already have the paper there and telling me you have this or that on me. Then I guess I kind of HAVE to sign the write up.
A new cashier was hired on for the holiday season.
New cashiers get sick a lot since the customers are disgusting and unsanitary.
And he got very sick.
Vomiting, diarrhea, coughing till he gagged followed by vomiting. He was in rough shape. On the clock.
He kept calling out (and rightfully so), but couldn't afford a doctor's note.
We were traditionally understaffed, so not only was management threatening his employment, but they also kept trying to call him in.
On Christmas Eve, he just threw up in a trash can in the middle of an order, announced he was quitting, and walked out to the cheers of the other employees.
I picked up tons of overtime. I even had paychecks that weren't embarrassing. It was pretty cool.
Couple years ago, we had the entire bakery dept except the decorator just walk out on us. I had had some training in it, so I got to see first hand how poorly it was being run and then how much the store managers were about to change since they were handed a blank slate. It was a mess for a couple weeks, we had to ask for help from other stores and had to find a new manager for the dept, but she was willing to learn from the coordinator, so once she took over and got a staff going, our bakery sales skyrocketed!! No more donuts that were sitting in the proofer overnight because that's how the baker wanted it done. No more filthy donut pans because the manager says don't waste your time cleaning them. No more letting the pies overbake because someone likes netflix too much to leave it at home.
I know this thread is about quitting, not getting canned but...
Two days ago a Courtesy Clerk in their probationary period was fired mid-shift due to a tragic laspe in communication.
Apparently, whenever a supervisor told them to "go to your break" what they actually heard was "Go hang out at the Arby's across the street, and don't come back until you feel like it."
I mean I didn't think anyone was gonna top the teen cashier fired last year for texting and talking on their cellphone while ringing up customers, but sheesh. This CC didn't even last 2 months.
Hopefully, our HR Lady will stop bringing us total pieces of work.
As for FCC, she was a 60-something 4'10" woman and the co-manager had a good 15 inches over her so it was more comical than scary.
Our HR Lady herself got fired, right after another "new" Front End Clerk got fired.
The HR Lady was told the dearly departed cashier in question couldn't or refused to work late shifts or Sundays.
They were hired by HR anyway.
The cashier showed up for the late night shift but had a meltdown/tantrum that escelated into cussing out and threatening a supervisor on the salesfloor, which is why they were shown the door.
Another new person in a different department was also fired during probation. I don't know what for because it's not my department.
I claimed a shift of the fired cashier's for tommrow and next week!
Our grocery department has crazy lapses in scheduling. There's usually no one around when the load shows up. So, a courtesy clerk, manager, or someone in a department has to do it. It's hilarious. Sometimes they have to wait a few hours until midnight for night crew to show up.
Lately, our produce department has been spending hours and hours cashiering, resulting in continuous writeups since their department suffers. Or writeups for not cashiering. Whatever happens, it's a writeup.
One evening, the load shows up, and nobody is around. Except produce.
A produce guy who just got suspended for cashiering too much. Or not cashiering. I lose track.
They wanted him to do the load instead of actually closing his department. We can't have any overtime you know. He just blew up and walked out since he was sick of it and was probably going to get fired or suspended for it anyways.
