Within the next few weeks, a total of 3 baggers are gonna be promoted to other departments. I'm not one of them, but I do think I'm definitely worthy of one sometime in the future. Are there certain things that store management is looking for from baggers in order to promote them?
I would start by finding an area you want to work in, develop a solid plan for how you can improve its efficiency/sales, and take that to the manager in charge of your front end. The trick is to make them believe they'd be smarter to promote you then leave you where you're at.
I would start by finding an area you want to work in, develop a solid plan for how you can improve its efficiency/sales, and take that to the manager in charge of your front end. The trick is to make them believe they'd be smarter to promote you then leave you where you're at.
As far as I'm aware, most contracts simply say the most senior employee is guaranteed a promotion (if he or she wants it and it's available). When someone gets a promotion with less seniority, you can demand that position based on your seniority.
What you're suggesting would only work if no one else above you wanted the position. And if no one above you did want it, all you simply have to do is alert a manager you'd like a position as soon as it became available. There's no real need for a "solid plan."
What I suggested is a successful strategy that has convinced me to promote cart pushers, unloaders and other lower-end laborers into better, more promising positions. One f them went on into the Management Trainee Program within less than two years----with NO college degree.
IMO, this business of promoting/rewarding people simply based on their length of employment, and absolutely no other quality work merits, is for the birds.
I would start by finding an area you want to work in, develop a solid plan for how you can improve its efficiency/sales, and take that to the manager in charge of your front end. The trick is to make them believe they'd be smarter to promote you then leave you where you're at.
As far as I'm aware, most contracts simply say the most senior employee is guaranteed a promotion (if he or she wants it and it's available). When someone gets a promotion with less seniority, you can demand that position based on your seniority.
What you're suggesting would only work if no one else above you wanted the position. And if no one above you did want it, all you simply have to do is alert a manager you'd like a position as soon as it became available. There's no real need for a "solid plan."
While that may be the case for direct promotions within a dept, moving to another dept pays no attention to seniority. Even within a dept, if the more senior person has proven to be less reliable or less able to handle the higher job, a lower seniority worker can easily get promoted first with no contractual repercussions.
in my professional career, i always find that the best way to climb the ladder is to ask. make sure people know that you are interested in moving up. in life, people don't usually come to you rather you need to come to them.
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in my professional career, i always find that the best way to climb the ladder is to ask. make sure people know that you are interested in moving up. in life, people don't usually come to you rather you need to come to them.
this.
if your one of the "ill just work hard, and they will notice type' you get no where.
managers like someone hungry, out for a promotion.
ask often, and chances go up.
I have learned the hard way
-- Edited by barada on Thursday 14th of February 2013 01:50:29 AM
I'm not going to lie, but the way I got promoted is by getting my boss drunk and the Christmas Party and having him brag about me in front of the coordinator. He had 8 Bacardi 151 with coca cola in it and I had 12 so he was plastered. I was remained fairly sober.
I have a high tolerance.
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I'm not going to lie, but the way I got promoted is by getting my boss drunk and the Christmas Party and having him brag about me in front of the coordinator. He had 8 Bacardi 151 with coca cola in it and I had 12 so he was plastered. I was remained fairly sober.
I have a high tolerance.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Love it!
I once bught my h.s. civics teacher a bottle of Jim Beam; I was flunking the U.S. Constitution class, and without passing the test, I wouldn't graduate h.s.
Why do you want to be "promoted?" In some contracts, a "promotion" may be more like a demotion. You might even get less hours.
This.
Read you contract. In my area for instance, time spent as a courtesy clerk does not count for seniority in other job classifications. I am getting about 34 hours a week right now as most available/senior part time bagger. Should I become a cashier, I would be getting 8 or less hours, as that is what our lowest seniority cashiers are getting. If you plan to remain with Kroger for many many years, go for the promotion. Otherwise it may be smarter to remain a bagger in the short run, as you will be bumped up seniority for the three guys who left.
In addition to this, most real departments are full of high seniority, long term employees, meaning it can be very difficult to advance past being the lowest man on the totem pole. As a bagger, if you can stick out for a year you will probably be fairly high on the list.
That said, bagging is a distasteful job to some, and if you find it so, by all means try for something else.
-- Edited by Stranger on Monday 18th of February 2013 01:22:45 AM
-- Edited by Stranger on Monday 18th of February 2013 01:23:46 AM
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