I am really sick of management at my store. I am a cashier and I bust my ass almost every day for this freaking company and all they do is tell us cashiers what to do and what not to do. But the ****ing lazy ass baggers we have are so ****ing useless... but yet management praises them for doing absolutely ****! I am not over exaggerating. There are maybe 2 baggers that do their job well but they barely get any hours but the **** baggers are getting 30 plus hours to absolutely ****. I have to ring up groceries then run to the end of the conveyor belt to bag the groceries and place them back in the cart because the lazy baggers are outside on the side of the building talking.
I'm constantly running back and forward ringing up groceries and bagging them basically doing two people jobs but management wants to come complaining to us because we are backed up with 5 customers waiting in line. Look around, there's no baggers on the front end so we're stuck doing two jobs! not the cashiers fault! They also say we need to improve our customer service... Thank God the customers don't think so. I am constantly being told by customers how great of a job I am doing and that they feel sorry for me. so at least that makes me feel alot better. But honestly I do have bad days where I am upset at the fact we don't have any baggers on the front end.
But the thing is the baggers literally hide so they don't have to do anything. They 'claim' they're going to the parking lot to collect some carts but they are really standing around talking. We even had customers complain. Management will ask a bagger to do one thing like dust. Then they praise them and reward them with several dollar off customer service coupons while us cashiers are being nagged at all day. I am so sick of this. This 7.45 an hour is not worth me being miserable every day.
i've worked for Kroger 30 plus years and that's the way its always been. Sounds like these baggers are management material 95% of management doesn't know how to treat their good people good, and their bad people bad. Kroger has become a hell hole to work in.
I'm a bagger and I agree with op. We have at least three baggers who don't do Jack or ****, and Jack left town. One of them is trying to get fired on purpose and has used every excuse to. Another uses the old "they don't pay me enough" adage. And the third is just dumber than dog**** and wanders around. If there is something simple to be done like, say a return, they have to be told three or more times. And as for the lot? Fugheddaboudit. And to this day I wonder why in the name of all that's holy are they still here?
-- Edited by Cart Warrior on Sunday 10th of November 2013 09:45:03 PM
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If you all think you have it bad, it is EXTREMELY worse for all Ruler Foods employees ( owned by Kroger but their least respected chain by far)! 1) We are never allowed over 30 hours (even when we are short 2-3 employees & always understaffed). 2) At our location it is only grocery store in a city that has a courthouse & is growing more popular with 6 surrounding counties. 3) We have only one full time register open unless more than 3-4 customers then 2nd cashier called up. 4) We have only 3 employees on nights 1 is the supervisor. 5) If you are the back up cashier for 2, your main job is "conditioning" which includes facing products, stocking, breaking down huge amounts of boxes and placing in bailer for all merchandise including groceries, freezers, dairy case, packaged meat case, fill dairy case, fill milk, fill produce, collect empty milk crates, egg & produce crates, clean up messes, help customers, sweep & mop in a scheduled 6 hour shift. Keeping an ear open to constantly stop to run 2nd register. 5) Always waiting on late truck deliveries which halts alot of our work in progress because there is no room in stock area to have our existing stock, unload the delivery truck, reload with empties and get in and out. We close at 9 and are lucky to clock out by midnight! That's 8 hours without a 30 minute lunch & most of us never EVER get time for our 15 minute break! 6)There has been several times when it was just a manager and myself working! 7) Only get paid $7.65/hr. I do the work of 3 employees, and unrecognized & treated unfair by our own Mother Company's Kroger! I wish they'd see the potential in this area and purchase an bigger & empty grocery store down the road. Show us, the community, and their selves that theirs a need and demand for more than just a store comparable to Aldi. What a disgrace. Us, the employees, at least should be treated equal and paid the same as JayC & Kroger employees. If they can't find people that can fill open positions, then shouldn't they respect the great few they have with frequent job reviews with raises or at least consider us as full-time so we can receive benefits that their other employees at their bigger stores easily and automatically receive? Love the work, the customers, and my co-workers but honestly considering other jobs.
Also, wish we had a bagger...atleast that would be an extra employee. NOT!!!! No way that'd fly. It's funny, if we actually hired an acceptable person we would be allowed an extra 40 hours that week to train. We have actually needed 2-3 new hires for over 3 months now! What doesn't make sense is that we don't even need that many hours to train (they show ya once) but what we do need is those e tra hours to give are current employees so that we can have adequate amount of them on the floor to get all the tasks done, a second register open during peak customer times, and to unload trucks, etc. We don't have enough employees to fill the needs we have without a few getting 30 hours or more. Not allowed! Missing breaks and working 8 hours to close store properly and not even having option of getting 30 minute lunch is.
you folks are welcome to go to walmart, Target, Best Buy, Mcdonalds or any other retailer out there, but i can tell you from experience its NOT any better there
Best thing you could do is Get an Education and major in something that would pay you a good living
you folks are welcome to go to walmart, Target, Best Buy, Mcdonalds or any other retailer out there, but i can tell you from experience its NOT any better there
Best thing you could do is Get an Education and major in something that would pay you a good living
other wise Retail will always be hell
Any job or career you have there will be things you hate or can't deal with...suck it up and move on. There are people in other countries that get paid pennies to your dollars a day. Suck it up and quit being first world pussies.
