Does anybody have the same problem we have in my store? I work in Dairy, as backup. When my manager is off - and it is backstock day - no one but myself is scheduled in the dairy until late afternoon.
On these days I have to write orders, completely fill up a case in the floral department, condition, do markdowns, break down and run the milk truck, scan out damages, run backstock and do those reviews, write out and print out TSG reports.
And they offer me no help on those days. Our store manager said the other day that ELMS schedules us enough hours to get our work done. I work damn hard, and we are backed up constantly.
I am always working full speed ahead all day long. I look around and see all other departments with help - but not me.
Do management just not care anymore, or are they keeping hours low deliberately to cash those bonus checks? Or are Kroger just getting greedier and greedier?
A case in point. I was told the other day about the new milk donation system. The target is to have zero donation - in other words, maximum bucks for the company.
We have a milk case in the Floral Department. There was talk of having it pulled when we were re-modelled a few years back, but they decided to keep it in due to customer demand. Recently, we have lost a couple of workers from our department - meaning Dairy/Frozen. One was fired and the other quit to go into the military. Two full-timers were replaced with one part-timer - a young kid with zero experience. I don't think management have any intention of replacing the worker who has just quit.
Dairy - in my store - seems to be at the bottom of the pile when it comes to handing out hours. We are always underscheduled...and everyone seems to work themselves to death here. Overtime seems to be a dirty word here now. I stopped asking for it several years ago. Night Stock grabs all the Overtime, and the rest of the Grocery Department gets screwed. I heard the Night Crew saying just the other night that they were staying until all of the work was finished. I also noticed that they stay after they are finished, and milk the clock even further.
-- Edited by amiunstable on Saturday 13th of November 2010 11:10:38 PM
night stock was the hour milkers in my store too. always eating the hours, and getting overtime, yet the work never got caught up. tried to transfer to night stock, but management flat refused
at my store they love the dairy department. the guys in the department cry and whine like children and get all the hours they need and they take people from grocery to stop the tears boo hoo
I work night stock at my store, and I get tons of overtime. I'm part time and I'm honestly sick of all the OT. I've been working 10-12 hour nights for weeks now, other people in my department have actually opened full time positions(that haven't been posted yet)... of course OT is easy to get when they give you five people to put up a 1500 piece truck, run some backstock and condition the store, our store is a pretty good size(90,000sq ft I believe).
one time an employee at my store worked 16 hours in a row lol. when we were open 24 hrs the overnight cashier called in and they had nobody to cover the shift so she worked something like 2p-10:30p, then 10:30p-7a! that would be so tiring!
I quit asking for overtime several years ago. It almost feels like a crime to ask for it. It isn't just bonuses, they are trying to keep the hours within limits year round. just my opinion though.
