I have a question. Is tardiness (being from 10 minutes, 15 minutes, up to an hour late on a regular basis) *REALLY* considered to be a serious issue at most Kroger stores? It seems to me that it all depends on whether an employee is liked by the management or not. I have heard there are several "steps" in response to chronic tardiness, but it doesn't seem to happen at my store.
I know of some employees who have been late literally dozens of times in a year, but with not a word being said.
I also personally know of a dept lead who is late (at least 10-15 minutes, often longer) about 80% of their work shifts. No one (in authority, that is) seems to care or notice. That person makes out their own schedule, but, just the same, it doesn't seem fair to let that happen all the time with no consequences.
And any co-workers in the dept who look at the schedule to see when their supervisor is "supposed" to be there, can never be sure when they will be there, just by checking the posted schedule.
Some of the employees in my department come in after the seven minute grace period on a very regular basis. Nothing is said or done, and in fact, is sometimes treated as a "joke" by other employees in the department, including people that are in a supervisory role. If it was me in charge of the department, I wouldn't tolerate it, but that's me.
I also personally know of a dept lead who is late (at least 10-15 minutes, often longer) about 80% of their work shifts. No one (in authority, that is) seems to care or notice. That person makes out their own schedule, but, just the same, it doesn't seem fair to let that happen all the time with no consequences.
Do you actually see the person punch in late or is it they don't show up in the department until 15 or 20 minutes later? Sometimes department heads have to take care of things in the managers' office before going to their department.
I have a question. Is tardiness (being from 10 minutes, 15 minutes, up to an hour late on a regular basis) *REALLY* considered to be a serious issue at most Kroger stores? It seems to me that it all depends on whether an employee is liked by the management or not. I have heard there are several "steps" in response to chronic tardiness, but it doesn't seem to happen at my store.
I know of some employees who have been late literally dozens of times in a year, but with not a word being said.
I also personally know of a dept lead who is late (at least 10-15 minutes, often longer) about 80% of their work shifts. No one (in authority, that is) seems to care or notice. That person makes out their own schedule, but, just the same, it doesn't seem fair to let that happen all the time with no consequences.
And any co-workers in the dept who look at the schedule to see when their supervisor is "supposed" to be there, can never be sure when they will be there, just by checking the posted schedule.
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stop being a late entitled piece of ****. You should be fired.
It's very noticeable for some jobs/tasks, for example, opening cashier when there is only one cashier. In others, say, second-shift Dairy, not so much.
Are key, core tasks getting addressed, more or less done? Orders reviewed? Freight touched? Conditioning reasonable? If not, attention can be expected to things like attendance.
The real red flag seems to be overtime. If it's above 1% of the store's labor budget, a district overlord is on the horn with the store führer.
Like someone else said it depends on if someone higher up likes you. We have people who steal time by standing around outside sit in the managers office go buy food at fast food restaurants on the clock and nothing is said but as soon as a bagger or someone who its not the best liked person will be wrote up or fired. Trust me I have seen it a lot. The front end seams to draw The mot attention when it comes to attendanc.
It depends on your store management. We got a new much more strict attendance policy and my store managers have been enforcing it pretty well. I've seen 3 or 4 writeups for repeat tardiness and a few verbal warnings.
I also personally know of a dept lead who is late (at least 10-15 minutes, often longer) about 80% of their work shifts. No one (in authority, that is) seems to care or notice. That person makes out their own schedule, but, just the same, it doesn't seem fair to let that happen all the time with no consequences.
Do you actually see the person punch in late or is it they don't show up in the department until 15 or 20 minutes later? Sometimes department heads have to take care of things in the managers' office before going to their department.
No, this has nothing to do with taking care of work in the managers' office. Trust me. (Besides, this store has lots of front windows. We can easily see employees parking their cars, and when they come and go.)
We had an employee, one who regularly worked customer service and FESing, that was always late. If you are actually not able to make it until 8+ minutes after your scheduled shift, change your availability from 2 PM to 2:15. In addition she would stroll in 8+ minutes late. Immediately clock in, put her stuff away, dick around in the break room, checking her makeup, checking her texts, etc. then go to the restroom before going to work. Every single shift. I got so fed up that when she was supposed to take over for me on Uscan for me to leave, that as soon as I saw her walk in the door late, I would just log out and go clock out and go home. Figuring she probably actually took over 10 minutes later and likely had a ton of errors and irate customers waiting on her when she finally got there. She still never learned and still never got any complaints from management.
Dear lord YES. Over the years I've had a few people who just cannot get to work on time which messed up everything. I'm not talking about one a month but every day. We would almost take bets on just how late they would be before they called to say they were running late. You write them up and they still can't show up on time but management off won't even suspend them. It seems like the worst offenders live the closest too. Anyone who clocks in and goes to the break room to get dressed or whatever is stealing time. Kroger doesn't pay you for that, you're supposed to be ready.
Exactly. We had one guy do this all the time. He claimed it was because Kroger "stole" from him (paycheck wise) but it was NOT true. You ARE supposed to be ready when your shift starts. Imo, as soon as you clock in...you ARE ready. Need to change clothes? Dont care.
Need to fix hair/makeup? Dont care.
Need to check texts? Uhh... said i didnt care right?
I have a question. Is tardiness (being from 10 minutes, 15 minutes, up to an hour late on a regular basis) *REALLY* considered to be a serious issue at most Kroger stores? It seems to me that it all depends on whether an employee is liked by the management or not. I have heard there are several "steps" in response to chronic tardiness, but it doesn't seem to happen at my store.
I know of some employees who have been late literally dozens of times in a year, but with not a word being said.
I also personally know of a dept lead who is late (at least 10-15 minutes, often longer) about 80% of their work shifts. No one (in authority, that is) seems to care or notice. That person makes out their own schedule, but, just the same, it doesn't seem fair to let that happen all the time with no consequences.
And any co-workers in the dept who look at the schedule to see when their supervisor is "supposed" to be there, can never be sure when they will be there, just by checking the posted schedule.
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I agree that there does seem to be a favoritism aspect to the tardiness and being late thing as well at my store. I mean sure they suspend repeat offenders for like 3 days or so for a while. But usually we are so short staffed some days they invite them back earlier. But yea, there was a dude that recently got fired though do to his not calling off not that long ago. But that was because he said he had gotten stung pretty badly by some bees, and although he used like 8 Epi pens, he still had to be rushed to the hospital. And they kept him. And I think even though he had a medical excuse they still fired him for it. But I think that was mainly do to our DH and the back up managers being fed up with him always being late. And always wandering off and nobody can find him.
