How many night stockers (non-department heads) write orders? Out of the seven grocery orders that are transmitted at my store the department writes only two. Just wondering if is normal throughout the company. We don't have a qualified backup position in our contract jurisdiction. It seems like the order writers should get somekind of premium for doing the department head's job.
Good luck with that. I was ordering 3 out of 5 deliveries, and other than go to occasional meetings and rake in the extra dough, I did everything else from training, BOH/min/Alloc adjustments, cart scans, replinishment reports, markdowns etc. When I asked for the wopping 30 cent premium the HR lady told me I should get it and will send in the request for it. She said I should get backpay. Well, for 4 months every week or two when I asked she said she didn't know what was taking so long and they just needed to finish the paperwork and that she would check on it. Finally after the 4 months I called the union and the next day one of the managers told me that position didn't exsist anymore.
My manager wanted me to get it, my co-managers approved it, my store manager said I should get it, the HR lady said I should get it, and my grocery coordinator had been telling people I was the assistant the whole time, but the guy above him denied it. When I asked the head HR lady if I could talk with him he never got back with me, but even when I talked to her and she told me to list all of the things I do and she looked it over she was unable to tell me what the manager does that I don't. She scrambled to find something I didn't list. ("well, the manager does a lot of shrink control stuff") To which I replied "I scan out damage every day, and keep BOH's accurate." This HR head has no real idea what we do on a given day so it was like talking to the HR head of a different company actually. Why she asked me to list everything so she could just tell me it doesn't exsist anymore when there were paid assitants at other stores in the division and our store was always at least #2-3 in sales is beyond me.
Bottom line, tell them if you don't get the pay they can find someone else to do it. Get the union involved early. Be persistent. I could have filed a grevience and in reality I should have. Prime example of Kroger being cheap. It would have cost them $12 whole dollars a week to keep a employee content and treat them with the fairness that was agreed upon in the union contract.
