I am a cashier, newly hired, and am wondering what the correct steps are to becoming full time? And around how much time in does it take to reach that goal? Thanks.
Prove to them that you are a valuable employee. Show up on time. Be available for when others call in. Do your job well. Stay out of trouble. Even that might not be enough. I didn't make full time until I moved off the front end.
Either work night crew long enough or have the right friends and family network in uour store. I have a lot more than 10 years in and i have done most of the right things snd worked where i am needed. You probably have more opportunities being a new hire.
It used to be, at least under my contract, if you worked 12 consecutive weeks at 40 hours straight time you automatically became full time. Now, if someone does that, they post a full time opening and the person with the most seniority is offered full time, even if that person wasn't the one who worked the 12/40 hour weeks. I don't think that's fair at all.
but on the last week they always cut you down a few hours so you won't obtain ft status
Most important part of this post. We watched Store Manager Workbench constantly on the Gaining Status portion of the People tab. Anyone getting close to FT got shafted. Sorry, just the way it worked.
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i started part time at kroger and became full time in less than a year. no nepotism, no family member in management, and i didn't sleep with anyone to get there.
what i did do is showed up to work on time and gave my best effort every day. i stock faster than anyone in my department, i'm good with the customers, i don't get in arguments with co-workers, and when there's down time i find something to do. i keep the department full the customers happy and when all that's done i make sure it's conditioned and clean. i will clean up random messes, spills etfc that i discover in other parts of the store if i'm not already rushing to get something else done.
some of my co-workers wonder why they are only part time making part time (minimum) wage for the same position in the same job. they are coincidentally the same ones who take the first opportunity to dick around in the back room when it's slow or take a 30 minute break during the busiest time of day or call out. it's been over a year since i've missed a shift. what these people don't understand is, FT status is a show of faith from the company, it's cheaper for kroger to hire 2 part timers to handle the job of a full timer but you have to prove to them that you're worth the benefits.
the alternative to this is getting caught into this old never ending cycle of "well, i've been here a long time and still making minimum wage, kroger doesn't give a s__t about me, so i'm just gonna clock in and do enough to not get fired". management will see this and think, "well screw this guy, he doesn't do anything, next week when the hours are cut again make sure to lop off a shift or 2 from him." so it's up to you to first show them you're worth the extra cost (though i'm sure that FT payroll is only a drop in the bucket in the big picture, management will act like having to pay FT people is bleeding the company dry)
for OP, i would recommend as a first step to try to get away from the front end as soon as possible, and into a department. imo the cashiers and customer service people should be making as much as full time clerks do but unfortunately front end seems to be a dead end wasteland as far as advancement.
also working on night crew really sucks balls but they always seem to have at least 1 or 2 people they want to get rid of but can't, since there are so few people willing to work 3rd shift grocery stocking "even in this bad economy!"
Better start yankin' some chains to become Full-Time, because at least in my division, starting in January, it will not be up to the store to allow an associate to become FT. It will be up to the Division office whether or not to allow an associate to become FT.
i work night crew and i totally agree. There is a guy we have wanted to get rid of for two months but cant because we are already short staffed. We can barely get the truck done in 8 hours as it is
as an asst dept head all i can suggest is if your availability allows inquiry about learning more- floor sup, customer care, accounting, self checkout, etc. at our store it seems to be that if you work the 12 weeks at 40 you are full time. We just had 1 got full time that had others over her on the senority scale. She was able to do everything but accounting so that allowed us to give her more hrs to get her at the full time quicker and since others were not able to "learn" those jobs that helped too. It does not sound right but sometimes you have to go around the rules to get where you wanna be.
as an asst dept head all i can suggest is if your availability allows inquiry about learning more- floor sup, customer care, accounting, self checkout, etc. at our store it seems to be that if you work the 12 weeks at 40 you are full time. We just had 1 got full time that had others over her on the senority scale. She was able to do everything but accounting so that allowed us to give her more hrs to get her at the full time quicker and since others were not able to "learn" those jobs that helped too. It does not sound right but sometimes you have to go around the rules to get where you wanna be.
Good points. I have two associates wanting more hours; one who shows up everyday on time and wants to learn every function, one who just wants to pull a pay check. Who do you think I favor?
Come on people, lets get real here, @ store level kroger has more reason to NOT put labor on fulltime then any retail comp,. One (1) part-time kroger labor out of 1000 will make full time today with kroger. And its now not left to the store or union to make that call. You can be the best worker there is in the work force and still not make it to full time. So you do what lots and I mean lots of kroger work force part timers are doing, get another part time job,, the only thing about that is like the store I work in, store mang, will get your number with you when your ask to work on your day off And you say you can not work because your working another job on your normal days off with kroger. Thats where it all starts to fall apart with your job with kroger. You will start to get called up to the doghouse and mang. WILL attack your work preformace, try to get you in a private office, have store labor mostly 2 of them moles, (asskissers) so they will stick up and lie with mang, when mang is cutting you down.they will treat you like your a very bad person and keep on degrading you down like your a fellony person.and they are even harder on gay people, not that im gay,however I heard one of our store mang, cut a person down bad because he is gay.no full time for him So you see, we all have bills to pay and I know all so well we all need full time work, kroger do not want good workers full time, store mang, will not allow it at all.they want fulltime workers parttime, the full time worker in my store are mostly made up of overtime abusers, dms and adms that made their rank by union crapola and are very bad people that dont know their ass then a hole in the wall. And very very hatefull to shoppers, kroger never ran their shoppers off, the ****#n union did. Good luck going full time, dont lose your hopes though!
It used to be, at least under my contract, if you worked 12 consecutive weeks at 40 hours straight time you automatically became full time.
That's how it is at my store still, so I hear. However management can and has randomly cut someone's hours to screw them over when they receive notification via computer when someone is about to become a full-time employee. : |
It used to be, at least under my contract, if you worked 12 consecutive weeks at 40 hours straight time you automatically became full time.
That's how it is at my store still, so I hear. However management can and has randomly cut someone's hours to screw them over when they receive notification via computer when someone is about to become a full-time employee. : |
Some people have been known to sneak it in. During that 12th week, if their hours haven't been cut too bad, they stay over just a little bit each day so that by the end of the week they have 40 hours. It also helps if your department manager wants you for full time. If someone calls in they can sometimes call you in to replace that shift. Of course that's assuming they've already asked those with more seniority first.
