Supervisor started working on the schedule and the first time she ran it it only scheduled me three days for next week. I'm full time and have been for the last 20 years.
All these programs are good for grocery and drug gm. They are no good for meat and deli.
um...explain this please?
It's been mentioned before but here goes. E-Schedule works fine if everyone in the department does the exact same job as everyone else every single day. The front end is a prime example. It's not like that in departments like the deli and bakery. In those departments there are certain jobs that have to be done at a certain time and only certain people know how to do them. You can't expect everyone in the department to know how to decorate a cake or bake bread or put together a party tray. This past week E-Schedule tried to schedule a guy from the deli to come in at 5:00 AM one day to bake bread. The guy barely knows how to bag the bread let alone bake it. In the meantime, it only scheduled me, a baker who's full time, three days next week. Of course that was changed but the fact remains that E-Schedule screwed up.
All these programs are good for grocery and drug gm. They are no good for meat and deli.
um...explain this please?
It's been mentioned before but here goes. E-Schedule works fine if everyone in the department does the exact same job as everyone else every single day. The front end is a prime example. It's not like that in departments like the deli and bakery. In those departments there are certain jobs that have to be done at a certain time and only certain people know how to do them. You can't expect everyone in the department to know how to decorate a cake or bake bread or put together a party tray. This past week E-Schedule tried to schedule a guy from the deli to come in at 5:00 AM one day to bake bread. The guy barely knows how to bag the bread let alone bake it. In the meantime, it only scheduled me, a baker who's full time, three days next week. Of course that was changed but the fact remains that E-Schedule screwed up.
Well actually, it sounds like your schedule writer is the one screwing up. Bakery and deli have different job titles in eschedule. If you have a bakery clerk being scheduled in the deli, that can only happen if they have their job assignments set up wrong. At least in this case, blame your dept head, not eschedule.
It's been mentioned before but here goes. E-Schedule works fine if everyone in the department does the exact same job as everyone else every single day. The front end is a prime example. It's not like that in departments like the deli and bakery. In those departments there are certain jobs that have to be done at a certain time and only certain people know how to do them. You can't expect everyone in the department to know how to decorate a cake or bake bread or put together a party tray. This past week E-Schedule tried to schedule a guy from the deli to come in at 5:00 AM one day to bake bread. The guy barely knows how to bag the bread let alone bake it. In the meantime, it only scheduled me, a baker who's full time, three days next week. Of course that was changed but the fact remains that E-Schedule screwed up.
Well actually, it sounds like your schedule writer is the one screwing up. Bakery and deli have different job titles in eschedule. If you have a bakery clerk being scheduled in the deli, that can only happen if they have their job assignments set up wrong. At least in this case, blame your dept head, not eschedule.
No, E-schedule does not know how to schedule for a bakery and a deli. E-Schedule goes strictly by customer count. It doesn't take into account that things have to be prepped, cooked, or baked and put out before the customer actually gets there. You can't schedule everybody to come in at 10:30 or later and expect everything to be set up by 12:00.
But what he's saying is right. A deli clerk can not, and will not, be scheduled for the bakery unless they are in the wrong category.
Yes, the E-schedule does not understand that a night time clerk most likely doesn't know how to bake.
But like for example, I'm keyed in as a Bakery.ServiceClerk. There's three people in our dept. keyed in as a Bakery.Decorator.
The Deli people should be keyed in as a Deli.ServiceClerk. They're in their own category. If by some chance a deli person is added to the schedule to help out, they are still in the category of Deli.ServiceClerk.
Our district is making another eschedule push. Everybody has to autoschedule. That's done insane stuff scheduling people in the middle of the night for front end, not covering all the key shifts. The thing is it's going to fail just like it failed last year because the system doesn't understand my store. They also need to make sure people are set up in the system correctly and I know I'm not because I was scheduled wrong. It's also violating contact and scheduling people fewer hours than other people with less seniority despite shifts being in their availability.
It's really a hot mess and the bean counters are going to squeeze every ounce of blood from some people scheduling them all over the place.
