I'm not on the stock crew but someone told me that now they have to carry around a handheld device that keeps track of their time. Every time they have to stop stocking to help a customer or use the restroom or do whatever, they have to log it on this device. It sounds implausible but I actually saw a bunch of the devices in holders on a wall in the back room.
Wow, that really sucks. O_O But if people don't start using them soon, I hope they don't have your supervisor standing by to sign them out to you and go around and make sure folks are using them all the time.
Has there been any mention of the repercussions of not using one often enough or at all?
just a way for the big wigs to tell us that we're crap and don't do enough work. they've started making my crew fill out time sheets, which while less sadistic than handhelds, is still a nuisance.
just a way for the big wigs to tell us that we're crap and don't do enough work. they've started making my crew fill out time sheets, which while less sadistic than handhelds, is still a nuisance.
Yep, more micro-managing BS from the empty suits at the top of the company that time and time again prove just how detached from reality they truly are.
While I'm not an overnight stocker or in grocery at all, I see what the overnight crew has to do and deal with on a regular basis. I feel that they are underpaid, overworked and underappreciated. I know some jobs in the store are harder than others, but I think that being an overnight stocker is the hardest of them all. It's very physically demanding and there is just so much to do, especially when coming in on say a Sunday night after the store has just been wrecked or coming in ahead of/during holidays. Working the truck, running backstock, conditioning, etc... especially when you're responsible for multiple aisles, it's honestly a lot of work, and while Kroger has unrealistic expectations when it comes to many things, the expectations are particularly unrealistic when it comes to what is expected from the overnight crew. If the big wigs at the top had to come in and do what the overnight crew does, I bet a majority of them wouldn't be able to cut it.
At the Kroger stores I've worked at, more and more they seem to be phasing out daytime grocery/replenishers or they are getting used more and more by the front end for surge cashiering, bagging and cart round-ups. This is such a huge mistake. These employees play an important role in maintaining the grocery department during the day so that when the overnight crew comes in, stuff like backstock has been worked, water has been refilled, and stuff like that. That makes it easier on the overnight crew to tackle the truck and get the store looking good for the next day. By doing away with daytime grocery/replenishers, more work is being piled on the overnight crew all the while they're expected to work faster and faster. And now, the company wants to potentially penalize them even further by tracking their time. Absolutely ridiculous and just plain stupid.
This is just one of the reasons why Kroger as a company is failing and will lose more and more business in the years to come... it's what happens when you drive away, rather than treasure and appreciate, good quality employees.
Its funny how everyone at lower levels or even KMA upper levers see this but are not "Allowed" to say anything! For a company that uses "Diversity, Inclusion, Safety, Commitment, Integrity, Respect" they sure are not showing it day-to-day.
Diversity - What diversity at GO?
Inclusion - We express are options and are told we are not inline with Corporate expectations
Safety - We are running our stores at Minimal levels, always telling people to "pickup the speed" which causes accidents
Commitment - Long Term associates understand what it takes to fun a store, we are then told we need to "make a number" yet cant run the store....which causes us to lose our commitment and not take any pride in the store.
Integrity - We all know the "Family" part of the stores has been gone for years, MGMT is starting to only think about their bonus/results and then basically threaten us to "make #'s"
Respect - Go faster, get it done, no excuses....isn't what I consider respect (Specially when your the one that is always called in, works longer shifts and does what needs to be done"
Its funny how everyone at lower levels or even KMA upper levers see this but are not "Allowed" to say anything! For a company that uses "Diversity, Inclusion, Safety, Commitment, Integrity, Respect" they sure are not showing it day-to-day.
I try to say as much stuff I can when the Associate Insight Survey comes around - not that it matters since it's clear Kroger does not read/does not care what the responses are. Plus, when you don't respond "favorably" to some questions and it gives you the opportunity to type in your reason, surprise surprise, there is a character limit which prevents you from really going into detail - but again, not that it matters because it's evident based on years past that what the employees are saying gets ignored despite our opinions supposedly "counting". It's laughable too how the Associate Insight Survey encourages you, the employee, to bring up whatever additional concerns/thoughts you may have with store management when store management doesn't care, may care but not have the power to change anything, or punish subtly or not so subtly those with less than favorable opinions of how the Kroger company conducts business.
But that all ties back in with what the OP is talking about and how the overnight grocery crew is treated with little respect, little concern for safety (gotta go fast! Oh, and better not take too many bathroom breaks!), and those that do have commitment to do a good job and show up everyday, well, just don't expect Kroger to be as committed to you as you are to the company.
Quevision isn't the issue, its ELMS and Quevision not being aligned. You have to be kidding me if GO thinks 1-2 Cashiers at one time is enough for most stores.
just a way for the big wigs to tell us that we're crap and don't do enough work. they've started making my crew fill out time sheets, which while less sadistic than handhelds, is still a nuisance.
Yep, more micro-managing BS from the empty suits at the top of the company that time and time again prove just how detached from reality they truly are.
While I'm not an overnight stocker or in grocery at all, I see what the overnight crew has to do and deal with on a regular basis. I feel that they are underpaid, overworked and underappreciated. I know some jobs in the store are harder than others, but I think that being an overnight stocker is the hardest of them all. It's very physically demanding and there is just so much to do, especially when coming in on say a Sunday night after the store has just been wrecked or coming in ahead of/during holidays. Working the truck, running backstock, conditioning, etc... especially when you're responsible for multiple aisles, it's honestly a lot of work, and while Kroger has unrealistic expectations when it comes to many things, the expectations are particularly unrealistic when it comes to what is expected from the overnight crew. If the big wigs at the top had to come in and do what the overnight crew does, I bet a majority of them wouldn't be able to cut it.
At the Kroger stores I've worked at, more and more they seem to be phasing out daytime grocery/replenishers or they are getting used more and more by the front end for surge cashiering, bagging and cart round-ups. This is such a huge mistake. These employees play an important role in maintaining the grocery department during the day so that when the overnight crew comes in, stuff like backstock has been worked, water has been refilled, and stuff like that. That makes it easier on the overnight crew to tackle the truck and get the store looking good for the next day. By doing away with daytime grocery/replenishers, more work is being piled on the overnight crew all the while they're expected to work faster and faster. And now, the company wants to potentially penalize them even further by tracking their time. Absolutely ridiculous and just plain stupid.
This is just one of the reasons why Kroger as a company is failing and will lose more and more business in the years to come... it's what happens when you drive away, rather than treasure and appreciate, good quality employees.
if kroger penalizes them , they will continue to lose stockers to other companies. people keep talking about raising wages, but raising wages won't help anything if the wages are equal to other companies, but the treatment is still far worse. when i first applied at kroger i wanted to do overnight stocking, i am so glad they told me those positions weren't available, it sounds like a sh*t department to work in, because of how they are treated. I mean who wants to wreck and injure their body for $12 an hour?
I actually wish they would use ankle monitors on our grocery crew. They slip out every hour for a smoke break, sometimes upwards of ten minutes. Hell the grocery manager is outside more than he is inside. But somehow they always need to stay over to finish the truck and get all kinds of OT. Poor guys, worked to death....
To the poster above, complaining about their grocery crew you better enjoy your ankle bracelet too. night crews are tracked for time way more than any other department. If they break that much, it's because they work that fast.
if they don't work that fast - it's because they're sick of the bull.
stop letting this damned company rip you apart at store level. That's what they want - they want us to fight with eachother and blame other departments instead of turning the attentionn where it matters
At my store, we got a new unit director. On his first day, he has cut all part time employees to less than 15 hours/wk. Walks around the store constantly conditioning. Today I found that if you buy something, you have to get a CSM to put 2 big yellow stickers that say "PAID" on it. You also must have the receipt secured to the thing you bought with those stickers. I'm seriously considering jumping boat to possibly another store or just leaving all together, it wouldn't be the first time. It seems managers are now constantly auditing every employee about what they are doing, getting them to condition when they are in the middle of something, like working a truck for instance.
