Well at my store since the first of November, when we traditionally start getting busy, managment has started cutting hours, especially on the front end. So all we do is go to the front to bag, because all the baggers are getting stuck on a register.
They tend to cut hours during the holidays because they are trying to get a bigger bonus. Your store manager has a goal to reach for the year or the month. If he is allotted 1,000 hours to use, but he only uses 800 of them, then Kroger cuts him a check based on how many hours he didn't use. That is his Christmas bonus.
Wondering why you are not getting hours? That's why. They do this at the end of the year to try and pad their check, and at the beginning of the year as well when hours are more easily spared.
They tend to cut hours during the holidays because they are trying to get a bigger bonus. Your store manager has a goal to reach for the year or the month. If he is allotted 1,000 hours to use, but he only uses 800 of them, then Kroger cuts him a check based on how many hours he didn't use. That is his Christmas bonus.
Wondering why you are not getting hours? That's why. They do this at the end of the year to try and pad their check, and at the beginning of the year as well when hours are more easily spared.
That is all true, in retail management everywhere. What really sucks is that, in my company, it's really only the co and store managers who make the real bonuses, while we assistants are stuck running the show on a skeleton crew---but yet held responsible for the resulting out come~
At the store I worked at last christmas, they cut all the part timers in the deli to five hour shifts. But the next week which was slower, they gave all the part timers 39 hours.
They tend to cut hours during the holidays because they are trying to get a bigger bonus. Your store manager has a goal to reach for the year or the month. If he is allotted 1,000 hours to use, but he only uses 800 of them, then Kroger cuts him a check based on how many hours he didn't use. That is his Christmas bonus.
Wondering why you are not getting hours? That's why. They do this at the end of the year to try and pad their check, and at the beginning of the year as well when hours are more easily spared.
