Unfortunately, I'd have to say if I ran the store I worked at, I'd have to run off half of the people I worked with. Management at my store believes in a country club environment obviously. How would you run a store? I'm a bit old school, full disclosure.
All you kroger employees are a bunch of whining babies. Get over yourself and do the job you were hired to do or quit. No one is forcing you to stay there.
All you kroger employees are a bunch of whining babies. Get over yourself and do the job you were hired to do or quit. No one is forcing you to stay there.
You say "quit" as if it were that easy to walk away from a job that feels nearly impossible to replace.
Why don't you quit TRYING to manage us and mind your OWN business? Personally, managers who have a stick up their ass, PISSES me off. SO WHAT if it's a "country club" like setting? I'd rather have a relaxed manager than an uptight one ANY day. As long as you do YOUR job and NOT worry about what others are doing then what does it matter? If corporate doesn't mind if a kroger is run 'country club' style, and everyone does as their supposed to, then why worry?
The managers where I work are pretty good, in my opinion. They don't yell like the gestapo at Walmart - "Work faster..." or "No break until...".
I usually work alone in my department after 3pm, so I don't have to hear the boss remind me to not talk to the customers too long. I excel at customer service!!
Either way, if I ran a store, I would insist on having a large staff of full-time employees who are scheduled 35 - 40 hours a week. I would also have a few part-time employees and schedule 2 people to do what 1 is scheduled to do now!!
Yunqi wrote:Either way, if I ran a store, I would insist on having a large staff of full-time employees who are scheduled 35 - 40 hours a week. I would also have a few part-time employees and schedule 2 people to do what 1 is scheduled to do now!!
Yes. They build the schedule around this fairy-tale scenario where everyone comes to work on time and works their butts off. So once someone calls in, goes on vacation or whatever, there's not enough labor to pick up the slack. And the hard working people have to work even harder to make up for the ones that stand and chit chat for half their shift.
"And the hard working people have to work even harder to make up for the ones that stand and chit chat for half their shift."
Words of Wisdom.
I work in Produce and it is non-stop stocking etc... Every night I leave work knowing that certain things need filling the next morning/day. But, when I get back in the next afternoon, the department looks ok. However, when I come back to work after a day or two off - a lot needs done.
I'm relatively new, and there are 2 newer guys so I understand, but it bothers me a bit when one new guy is upset that he is only schedule 2 nights a week and the other says hasn't felt well and didn't stock much.
What it all boils down to is Obamacare.
Supposedly, Obama changed the law which defines "Full-time and eligible for benefits". I'm not sure what it was before, or exactly what it is now. Now, for example, if someone works 30 hours a week, they are full-time and should be given benefits. So, employers hire more workers and schedule them less hours. The guy with just 10 hours a week doesn't care and the guy with 25 busts his butt hoping to be made full-time.
They call it "culling".
On a different note, I was chatting with my boss tonight and asked him how am I doing? He said good, but I need to focus on rotating more.
-- Edited by Yunqi on Monday 13th of January 2014 09:39:47 PM
companies and management aren't what they were years ago. my manager doesn't seem to understand that it would be in her best interest if she was to schedule two bodies for the nights our shipments are heavy and totes are due to arrive. or maybe she enjoys having upper management on her case for the dept. not completing their daily work. complains may stop IF she was to hire another part-time person for 15 hours a week, or ask another dept within the store to loan you a body for an hour of two on those heavy nights.
