Your hours depend on what they give you, and you can look at your pay increases in ExpressHR. It goes by hours worked, not probationary period or merit.
I'm a courtesy clerk at store 459, I work 15hrs a week and get paid 7.25, what will my hours and pay be after my probation period?
sadly it will be the same. nothing changes after a short probation period.
Check your contract to see what it says. Some contracts give nothing for package clerks or some low position where all you do is gather shopping carts and help bad a few groceries. It is the basic entry level.
Now the sad thing is this, If your contract states a raise after something like 1040 hours, then at do not count on a raise for well over a year if you will only get 15 to 20 hours a week.
If it is like some contracts then it would probably be in 9 months.
just my opinion here without knowing your contract
Even though I am technically a file maintenance clerk, I've been set as a front end bagger since I started nearly a year and a half ago. No raises for courtesy clerks. Ever. Ask for a union booklet.
Alrighty, a few things to understand. Mind you all of the numbers are for my locality, as I do not know yours.
Your pay as a bagger caps at $7.35/hour. It will never be more.
At best, there is a janitory like classification that can get up to $7.80/hour, but your store will probably have these positions filled by some lifers.
Unless something abnormal happens, you will not be promoted. Ever.
If you are a student, summer work does not count to becoming full-time. So no matter the work hours during the summer, it will be part-time only, so no benefits.
Your scheduel will probably be quite odd, and as a new hire you will constatly be the last bagger due to seniority.
Raises are every six months, five cents each time, three times only.
According to union contracy in my area, in short, you are paid to do only bagging, cleaning, trash, helping customers to their car, and returning items to the shelf that were not purchased at the register. If you are asked to do anything else, anything at all, it is a violation of union contract.
If you stay long enough for a raise, watch your check. I have never had them give me a pay raise in any form without direct contact with the manager.
My advice as a bagger is to move on. Use your employment here to get in somewhere else, as it will look good to prospective employers that you have been hired and are working. Get a month or two in for experience, and then look around for other work. I suggest that you make good friends with your direct supervisor, the customer service manager, as he or she can be a good refrence to use for an application. Basically Kroger is either for life, or for as short as possible.
-- Edited by Stranger on Monday 22nd of October 2012 02:29:55 PM
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When I started Everybody started out as a bagger. The thing to do is to keep your eyes and ears open for any department that might have an opening. You might also want to talk to the head of the department you're interested in to see if there's an opening. You could always become a checker as a last resort. Unless you really like working with the general public, I would try to get off the front end. Sure you deal with the public in other departments buts it's not as intense as it is on the front end.
