My job title at Kroger is greeter, but i dont greet people at all. All they make me do is bag, do go-backs, and clean the foyers. i dont really have a set of duties to do lie the other emloyees and for periods of time im left doing nothing. Does anyone else have this job or is that all we do? I have no use other than doing the odd jobs like vacuuming and picking up baskets from cash registers. Is there anything i could be doing? If I stand around and do nothing I would get in trouble but if all i do is bag then I,m basically an untrained bagger. My shifts are 8 hours but im dreading them not because of the work but because of the lack of work...I'm trying not to sound too whiny but anyone else have any tips or suggestions to make myself feel more useful?
Also, there are a lot of old ladies who do my job (my coworkers). They like it because its slow paced. So basically Im doing an old person job. Im ony doing this for about 1 more month and i know I should just suck it up, but the sheer maddening boredom of my tasks just really drive me insane.
i just realized noone will probably read this...but I had to vent.
Welcome, Daratora, this board is actually quite active and as far as your question goes... it's not much more than what you're already doing. The greeters around here also check for receipts and stuff like that but I dunno if they allow that kind of thing at your store. You can clean and bag and misplaced and what-not as well but you're not really suppose to do that.
You're literally suppose to just sit there all day greeting and talking to people.
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Would you like fries with th... I mean, your milk in a bag?
Stand by the entrance door and keep an eye out for shoplifters trying to get out. Engage with customers. Shoot the breeze with everybody. It's not that you are useless, it's that you have the freedom to just do whatever. You are basically paid to hang out at Kroger.
It's not that bad.
I wish I could get off my register and just screw around all day.
If you are so unhappy, see if you can become a courtesy clerk or cashier. Or drink before work. Whatever.
Used to have more in the past than we have now. My last store had them during its remodel, but about the time that finished, they closed those positions. My current store is a marketplace, though, so we get hours for all sorts of things we have that other stores don't.
We barely have baggers or cashiers, never even thought of Kroger with greeters.
Anyway, like a bagger in a way your prime job is to create a good shopping experience for the customer. The greeter sets the shopping trip up well, and if all goes well the cashier and bagger finish the trip on the same good note. Us front-endies have a lot of control over the net shopping experience of the customer. It might not be the most active or demanding job in the world to be a greeter, but it can be very important if you treat it like it is important.
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