So had an interesting conversation with my manager today. I'm a store recruiter/ service director trying to become a backup in the front end and progress in the crazy world of Kroger. My manager told me basicaly step down from what I do now and enhance my skills or stay in my role and be stuck. Very supportive huh. I ask why cannot I do both. My current job and refresh my skills for the job I'm trying to get. His answer, it would create over time to do both and with our hiring needs we cannot afford to loose those hours else where. I just felt hurt. Thanks for the faith Kroger leaders. Their was more to the conversation but I just needed to vent.
Its funny the eliminated our HR position in the stores and made a Co-Manager in charge of HR....some stores kept an HR, but in a limited capacity. Our Front End Managers are Union Members, I would tell you to jump ship now.......Health Care, Insurance or Financial are jobs to have..
About a month after I was hired by our HR lady, I never saw her again. One of our co-managers has been doing her job. So that explains what happened to her. They eliminated the HR position, huh.
I heard they eliminated it in the Cincinnati division. Our HR co-manager goes to meetings a lot at the division office so this could be training. The fact is I have almost 10 years in with the company and being too I order for me to move up I have to step down that's not how that works. Being blamed for our high turnover when the cause is people calling off and being forced to follow that stupid thick packet that our new hires have to do makes me want to step down but I need the money. In our division you get a two dollar an hour raise door the hr job.
It seems every stores is experiencing high turnover, but yet nothing really it being done to fix the issue. Everything that's being implemented sounds good on paper, but it not really effective. I said we should just implement a set schedule for everyone from day one! While it might cause overages in scheduled hours, but eliminates the guessing of your schedule and eliminates people complaining about hours.
I would be taking a big cut in pay if I stepped down, but I'm getting annoyed about hearing what we need to improve, without really being given any tools to improve our results. If I hear follow best practices.....so I have 2 associates and they are working non-stop, I'm to ask them to pick up the pace, because we are not getting the job done?
If I hear follow best practices.....so I have 2 associates and they are working non-stop, I'm to ask them to pick up the pace, because we are not getting the job done?
No: you are to retain your humanity and intelligence and use both at work. If that means pushing back, respectfully, against your upline overlords, that is the ethical and responsible thing to do.