If you were hired part-time and only work 24 hours a week, how can they cut your hours?
I have opted to be cross-trained from DELI to BAKERY as a part-time cake decorator. Considering there is no KEY-RETAIL in Bakery, my manager is given very few hours to deal out. So I do one or two days there or visa-versa in DELI.
Now, I am getting cut my hours in DELI and the only way I was given 8 hours in BAKERY was due to the manager found a cake decor class for me to go to. SHE IS AWESOME.
For the next schedule I was given 12 hours. How can I increase my hours as a cake decorator? Any suggestions?
in theroy, they have to give you 12 hours, or more, according to the union book.
increasing hours, ussually means you get bumped into other depts , for a few hours. getting them in a spacific dept, is up to the manager, and dept head. good luck
My only suggestion is to make yourself valuable to them as a cake decorator. If you do good work and you get things done in a timely fashion they'll want to keep you. On average if you can decorate a quarter sheet cake in 10 minutes or less then your're doing fine. Naturally cakes with kits take a little longer and cakes with just a border can be done in practically no time at all but all in all you should be able to crank out 5 to 6 cakes an hour.
are there other kroger stores near you? don't forget you can always ask to work at other stores in order to get the hours you want. call them up! you'd be surprised....
best of luck
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Depending on your contract, part time can be anywhere from 12-16 hours per week minimum. If you have schedule restrictions, it could be even less.
If you want more work as a cake decorator, you need to work on speed as well as skill. Once bakery is added to Key Retailing, we are really hoping to see a jump in hours assigned to bakery. Right now, Bakery in my store only gets about 9 hours a day to use. On a slow week, I may do 5 cake orders, on a busy week, I may do around 25 cake orders per week. The rest of my time goes into baking and filling tables and making backup cupcakes. We order in premade cakes for our cake case to save on time.
If you lived near me I would beg them to hire you if you can decorate well. I am the only one who decorates (My manager can but she hates to) and I have t work both deli and bakery. We need another person to work deli and bakery both. I only get about an hour or 2 for cakes each night with all the other stuff I have to do. Bah.
And as someone else said, working at other stores is always a way to pick up hours.
If you want more work as a cake decorator, you need to work on speed as well as skill. Once bakery is added to Key Retailing, we are really hoping to see a jump in hours assigned to bakery. Right now, Bakery in my store only gets about 9 hours a day to use. On a slow week, I may do 5 cake orders, on a busy week, I may do around 25 cake orders per week. The rest of my time goes into baking and filling tables and making backup cupcakes. We order in premade cakes for our cake case to save on time.
5 cake orders a week? You must work in a very small deli. We usually have an average of 3 orderrs a day Monday thru Friday. On Saturdays and Sundays we usually have a minimum of 10 each day.
