My shifts are pretty much open-ended and sometimes I have to work late afternoon/early evening. Of course this also means I have to deal with the lazy kids. Well one evening lazy kid comes in and tells me that I only need to worry about the corral furthest away from the lobby. I get there to discover that what little amount of carts in the lobby are scrambled up and that the corral is packed with at least half of the lobby. An hour and 15min later I get it done. I glare at lazy and said bang-up job. Lazy kid tried to counter by telling me how I should have done it this way. I was having none of it. I also came to a revelation. From now on I will go outside, work hard, and bring the carts in. However, I absolutely refuse to clean up after these lazy kids. If they leave a mess they can grow up and take care of it.
If someone isn't doing his or her job, then you can either just worry about doing your work and hope that he or she gets caught by a supervisor or management when slacking off or you can just outright name the person to your supervisor or management. See, if someone knows you or someone else is always going to pick up the slack while he or she takes it easy, then he or she is just going to keep unloading the work onto others for as long as he or she can get away with it.
If someone isn't doing his or her job, then you can either just worry about doing your work and hope that he or she gets caught by a supervisor or management when slacking off or you can just outright name the person to your supervisor or management. See, if someone knows you or someone else is always going to pick up the slack while he or she takes it easy, then he or she is just going to keep unloading the work onto others for as long as he or she can get away with it.
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If someone isn't doing his or her job, then you can either just worry about doing your work and hope that he or she gets caught by a supervisor or management when slacking off or you can just outright name the person to your supervisor or management. See, if someone knows you or someone else is always going to pick up the slack while he or she takes it easy, then he or she is just going to keep unloading the work onto others for as long as he or she can get away with it.
As the OP seems to be a bagger, I find my experience in this relevant.
For a time, I quit covering for the lazy kids. Through their slacking, it just leaves me with even more work to do when it gets to me.
I made the CSM aware of it, and was told that nothing can be done.
Management had the same response, with the tone that I should just do their work.
Standard procedure is essentially to offload all work on the few people who will actually do the work. It is a policy that works for the CSM, FES, and management, and the kids. It is quite bad for my blood pressure some days.
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There's nothing supervisors can do. We tell management they just bluster and nothing happens. To them it's your fault these people aren't doing their jobs. Even if you have to take up the slack yourself.
The opener assigns the day's hourly cart duty. They should be aware of who is a do-nothing and not put them on carts during prime time when we need to replenish carts the most. Part of that is also the schedule writer's fault.
If someone isn't doing his or her job, then you can either just worry about doing your work and hope that he or she gets caught by a supervisor or management when slacking off or you can just outright name the person to your supervisor or management. See, if someone knows you or someone else is always going to pick up the slack while he or she takes it easy, then he or she is just going to keep unloading the work onto others for as long as he or she can get away with it.
As the OP seems to be a bagger, I find my experience in this relevant.
For a time, I quit covering for the lazy kids. Through their slacking, it just leaves me with even more work to do when it gets to me.
I made the CSM aware of it, and was told that nothing can be done.
Management had the same response, with the tone that I should just do their work.
Standard procedure is essentially to offload all work on the few people who will actually do the work. It is a policy that works for the CSM, FES, and management, and the kids. It is quite bad for my blood pressure some days.
You can't be asked or expected to do someone else's work simply because that person chooses not to do the work. You should only be doing your work, plain and simple, and not extra work that piles up because someone thinks he or she can collect a check for simply clocking in/clocking out while doing relatively little in between. In the case of a bagger, he/she should do his/her carts and not break his/her back trying to bring in 10+ at a time because the others don't go out there. As long as you're doing your job, nobody can say anything to you. If enough customers complain about a lack of carts/poor service, maybe then management will do something about those that aren't productive. There's no point in stressing out over having to do the work of your lazy employees. If the work doesn't get done, it doesn't get done, but you won't be the one blamed since you're doing your job. If you get blamed, go to the union or go elsewhere. Kroger doesn't pay well enough for the jobs we do as it is - and the pay certainly isn't good enough for us to be doing our work plus the work of those employees that want to get paid for doing nothing. I will say it again: when others see that you and others are willing to pick up the slack for them, they'll take it easy whenever they can and it only encourages others to be lazy. Kroger takes advantage of us enough as it is and there's no way your co-workers should be getting away with taking advantage of you as well.
If it makes you feel any better, we have a bagger that fits the lazy description. Except for one corral that's overflowing, all of them are overflowing. The thing is that they ended up firing him for attendance issues but he and the union fought back and he got his job back. Just think that there's I'm sure MANY hard working high school kids that haven't been able to secure a job in this economy that would gladly replace and outperform this lazy bagger, however we were forced to bring him back.
