This si to all the Night Crews out there. Keep up the good work, i know the pay sucks at times but the longer you do it the more you'll make (atleast in my store anyway). I salute you guys as we are the only ones that do any REAL work in our stores. Im about to go in to a 7500 piece night on 4 trucks with 4 people. We all hate life right now, but we will get it done even if lack of sleep turns us all into flesh eating zombies!
Same here, but the next 7 hours usually are pure hell, depending on the ammount of trucks.
anways, tonight went well, I actually got to call in some more help and we got it done with only 1 hour of overage. not bad for 4 trucks, last time this happened (last memorial weekend.) we came in at midnight and didnt leave until 1pm the next day, they want us out of there by 8:30, sometimes that jsut doesnt come anywhere clsoe to happening even with every person mking 55 cases/hour
Wow, it sounds like people on nights need more supervision. They're not doing anything on the company's dime? Anybody else would be written up. That's hardly fair for the actual hard working employees.
Wow, it sounds like people on nights need more supervision. They're not doing anything on the company's dime? Anybody else would be written up. That's hardly fair for the actual hard working employees.
Given that the night crew gets some of the crappiest working conditions available to employees, at least in many locations, I can see a bit of blithe behavior merited. I have seen a fair bit of a back and forth between them and mgmt something of the nature:
"You guys need to do more cases per hour."
"No human crew of our number can load that many cases per hour."
There are some disciplinary threats, but I suspect the real game is reminding the employees who work without supervision "who is boss."
Net story: They work harder (or are worked harder), often than we day shifters when all things are looked at. Also Anon, few things are fair. I have a guy who gets about 20-30 hrs a week that are not actual work and they just double the work load each day of a few mentally disabled guys to make up for it. No two situations are ever perfectly comparable. Night crew getting to dick around for an extra hour is fine assuming the full work gets done.
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At my store they took half of the night crew and sent them to work days because they were not happy with our work. I blame our grocery manager. She is trying to make a name for herself by doing all of the stocking on first and second shift so she can get a promotion. Word of advice: stay away from 902.
I solute you back my good sir! It sounds like you may be entry-mid lvl supervisor and i know completely how you feel on nights. Our store recently set this rediculous goal and put out a "reward" like they were fishing for us or something, it was impossible. We had 7 trucks in one night all of them mostly grocery and those horrid GHC trucks where we have to break down every single stinkin pallet and find our stuff. Management told me to tell my crew if they could get ALL of the trucks done on time (we only had 5 people, ya right!) in 8 hours we would get a reward of 50 dollars credit in the Deli and a 10$ gift card. You know, thats not to bad if it was even possible for us to do it. We failed horribly and i blame Human Resources for being too damned picky in the hiring process. I mean for christs sakes some of these people coming in on nights are starting at minimum wage and will be making that for at least 1.5 yrs worth of time and are expected to throw 50-70 cases per hour in 15 days. Needless to say i can never lead an efficient crew except on the rare occasions we actually have a full crew. The "facing/zoning/blocking" is what runs most of them away. They refuse to hire anybody to come in and assist the night crew on it so we have to do it PLUS the trucks and get graded on it constantly by these corporate cheesehead "specialists" that do nothing but grade that crap with a finely toothed comb. its wild but i dont mind, im actually one of the select few thats getting paid a decent wage by this strange excuse for a company.
At my store they took half of the night crew and sent them to work days because they were not happy with our work. I blame our grocery manager. She is trying to make a name for herself by doing all of the stocking on first and second shift so she can get a promotion. Word of advice: stay away from 902.
if she is a grocery manager there is no place for her to be promoted unless she wants to get into store management which would be a dumb thing to do
The. Only thing that is being accomplished with night crew working days is. The customers are suffering. There is no way trucks can be done on days safely or effectively. Someone is going to get hurt a customer or an employee, all so a grocery manager can spend her time stocking dairy. Because her good friend works in dairy. She has no clue what is going on in grocery. She is a lier, and she has her favorites. She does not need to be a manager. Kroger does not want people that can rally people and get things done, their problem is corporate has no idea what is happening in their stores and the managers they trust to oversee things steal more time from them then any lower level person, they just dont care about anything but money.
The. Only thing that is being accomplished with night crew working days is. The customers are suffering. There is no way trucks can be done on days safely or effectively. Someone is go. Doingg to get hurt a customer or an employee, all so a grocery manager can spend her time stocking dairy. Because her good friend works in dairy. She has no clue what is going on in grocery. She is a lier, and she has her favorites. She does not need to be a manager. Kroger does not want people that can rally people and get things done, their problem is corporate has no idea what is happening in their stores and the managers they trust to oversee things steal more time from them then any lower level person, they just dont care about anything but money.
I see you are familiar with the sad grocery manager named Laura. She is quite the pig.
As for her promotion, she is not smart. She sees being a co-manager as a good thing. Such a moron, she is.
