I hate key retailing and what it has turned my store into. I thought about the best way to respond. I finally found the solution. I come in every day and do my job half-assed. Right now I am in the bathroom, playing Angry Birds, and I am not clocked out for a break. Ah, the smell of success and freedom and poo!
Great! Just what we need at Kroger. Another slacker. A dime a dozen at my store.
It is people with your attitude that cause corporate to have brain farts like Key Retailing.
I also do not agree with Key Retailing but am willing to give it a shot. A good worker would try their best, try to make Key Retailing work and give ideas on how to tweek it so it can work. If this is like all other programs that corporate brain trusts come up with, it will just be a phase and they will roll something else out in 3 years. I find it peculiar that people who are not capable of doing manual labor are the ones dictating how manual labor should be done efficiently. I would like to see some of the designers of this program try to do their key retailing routines for 6 months straight at 40 hours a week.
Your days would go better if you atleast do it with a smile on your face.
PS. Don't drop your phone in the toilet. That would suck.
Lol. True. I sometimes have to unpack loads and get them signed in because some people in depts can't be bothered. And it takes away from my job because I have to make sure everything is accounted for.
I hate key retailing and what it has turned my store into. I thought about the best way to respond. I finally found the solution. I come in every day and do my job half-assed. Right now I am in the bathroom, playing Angry Birds, and I am not clocked out for a break. Ah, the smell of success and freedom and poo!
<sarcasm> Quit. That'll show 'em. </sarcasm>
In the mean time, go do your job and quit being a slacker and making your fellow employees work harder to cover your dumb @ss.
He/she will get caught one day. You think no one is looking but they do. And they pay attention. I suggest you rethink your "getting back" and leave Angry Birds for break time.
The best way to get back at Key Retailing is to do everything they ask, but in the meantime keep the customers informed about the processes that have to be done (especially in a situation that involves them, such as ELMS). The customers will do everything they can to make your job easier, or they will complain to corporate about what they don't like about Key Retailing.
We're living in a time of almost abject slavery. Gone are the days of leading by strength and intelligence; that has been replaced by fear and intimidation. Problem with that is, you can only go so far before it churns into anger and H A T R E D: People won't go along with it for ever.
So yea, while I hate the O.P.'s attitude I completely understand where it's coming from. One last thing: We're all gonna see more of it as time goes on.
Exactly. Every one of us has this expressly implied "social contract" we agree to uphold when we accept a job. You agree, every time you clock in, that you will do your job, whatever that entails. By hiding in the bathroom on the clock, OP decides to break this "contract" and steal from the company and isn't even brave enough to do it out in the open. If you feel you aren't being paid well enough, you find a new employer, not steal from your current one.
Exactly. Every one of us has this expressly implied "social contract" we agree to uphold when we accept a job. You agree, every time you clock in, that you will do your job, whatever that entails. By hiding in the bathroom on the clock, OP decides to break this "contract" and steal from the company and isn't even brave enough to do it out in the open. If you feel you aren't being paid well enough, you find a new employer, not steal from your current one.
He might not hate his job per se, it's key retailing he hates from what I understand. But that doesn't mean to slack off and let your fellow co workers pick up the slack.
Not my responsibility. If OP hates the job enough to go slack off in the bathroom, they can do so on their own. I have seen enough of key retailing to know that it is manageable. I have seen people do it. If OP isn't happy, there are a plethora of openings at places which pay exactly how much OP deserves: minimum wage.
Not my responsibility. If OP hates the job enough to go slack off in the bathroom, they can do so on their own. I have seen enough of key retailing to know that it is manageable. I have seen people do it. If OP isn't happy, there are a plethora of openings at places which pay exactly how much OP deserves: minimum wage.
If there truly are a plethora of options available to TC as you claim, you should back up that claim with specific places where there are definite openings. How do you know TC hasn't tried a whole lot of things? Why is everyone making assumptions about the poor troll TC!?
If there truly are a plethora of options available to TC as you claim, you should back up that claim with specific places where there are definite openings. How do you know TC hasn't tried a whole lot of things? Why is everyone making assumptions about the poor troll TC!?
Let's see here... McDonald's, Wendy's, Longhorn, Dollar General, Dollar Tree, Subway, Pony Express, Walgreens, CVS, car dealerships, vets, post office, Dairy Queen, Shell, BP, liquor stores, local restaurants, Walmart, Lowe's, Chick-fil-a, Chili's... I'd go on but I made my point.
And if OP has tried many other places and still ended up at Kroger unhappy with the work environment that others seem to deal with, it says nothing about kroger and much about OP's work ethic.
I hate to confess this... but I'm a certified pharmacy technician and only make $8 an hour. Things are pretty hellish, and I rarely get to take the breaks I'm supposed to get... so yes, when I go to the bathroom I will play a game or two of Candy Crush. It only takes another couple of minutes, but it helps with the stress. I feel a terrible amount of guilt, but then again, I'm treated like absolute **** at my job. I only started doing this when I realized how many long personal phone calls the pharmacists and other techs make (on the clock, of course. Yes, when there is work to be done and there are people that are waiting to be helped.) They're really more guilty of time theft than I am. And I don't make $60 an hour like the pharmacists do.
I hate to confess this... but I'm a certified pharmacy technician and only make $8 an hour. Things are pretty hellish, and I rarely get to take the breaks I'm supposed to get... so yes, when I go to the bathroom I will play a game or two of Candy Crush. It only takes another couple of minutes, but it helps with the stress. I feel a terrible amount of guilt, but then again, I'm treated like absolute **** at my job. I only started doing this when I realized how many long personal phone calls the pharmacists and other techs make (on the clock, of course. Yes, when there is work to be done and there are people that are waiting to be helped.) They're really more guilty of time theft than I am. And I don't make $60 an hour like the pharmacists do.
How in the hell are you only making $8 an hour? If you're a CPhT then go somewhere else! You should be making at least $11 per hour.
