Night crew is the best yo we stock them shelves motha ****as yall niggas dont even know about us we are the best **** all you day shift ****ers night crew runs this bitch yo
reppin mah night crew yo we da best yo listenin to music all night throwin stock all night yo conditionin them isles yo its like a cake walk yo we da bess we da bess
reppin mah night crew yo we da best yo listenin to music all night throwin stock all night yo conditionin them isles yo its like a cake walk yo we da bess we da bess
Try that during the day when you have customers in the store and it will be a whole different story!
We have to crank thru a lot of work overnight. I have seen how day crew rolls. Yap, gossip, fart around on the Kcomputer, check cell phone, play pocket pool, do a little bit of work and run the registers.. Some nights, I am so wound up, I forget coworkers names as I am leaving.
I have worked some day hours and know exactly how pesky customers are. But, the "satisfied ones make my paycheck possible" so I go out of my way to help only to forget what I was doing. lol.. It doesn't matter what I am doing or where I am at, I am always in the way. I could be in front of a black rack(odd items that sell once a month) and I would still be in the way.
We have to crank thru a lot of work overnight. I have seen how day crew rolls. Yap, gossip, fart around on the Kcomputer, check cell phone, play pocket pool, do a little bit of work and run the registers.. Some nights, I am so wound up, I forget coworkers names as I am leaving.
I have worked some day hours and know exactly how pesky customers are. But, the "satisfied ones make my paycheck possible" so I go out of my way to help only to forget what I was doing. lol.. It doesn't matter what I am doing or where I am at, I am always in the way. I could be in front of a black rack(odd items that sell once a month) and I would still be in the way.
I love my job.
It isn't day grocery's job to do the night load. The truck doesn't even come in until like 10. Day grocery is SUPPOSED to be filling holes, working Peytons, replenishing water, making bales, helping dairy/frozen occasionally, and make sure the backroom is cleaned up so that the night load can be processed. Now I know that the majority of the time they're slacking off, but we can't hold them responsible for EVERYTHING. Not their fault that most grocery managers just sit on the Kcomputer all night.
Your day grocery might be on the up and up.Ours sux. We work regular grocery and Peyton on nights. Daycrew is supposed to be processing peyton to save us time. Never happenned.
Our daycrew does the replenishment report. They do not check backstock, they just zero everything out and throw something random in the spot so no one will see that it is a hole. Nights runs all the backstock and has to fix all the BOHs. The day grocery manager, frozen lead and a comanager are the worst culprits. When I see their initials next to a change in BOH, I undo whatever they did. I do not even need to count it. We had one girl come to nights from days. I told her to get product off the endcap and fill the hole. All she heard was, "Fill the hole" and grabbed the product next to it and tossed it in there. They are trained to do this right before the prime time review. We refill water gallons, 24s and 32s. I usually have to make a bale right after I clock in. I usually spend an hour cleaning the backroom so I can get to our work. Bottle bins tossed in backroom, bale in the way, supply pallets scattered, pallet stacks scatterred. I have to move things around just to find the power pallet jack because it is buried behind all the bottle bins!
I have no clue what my night grocery manager does all night. I do know we get more work done when I am in charge and he takes the day off...
We only have 2 part timers and a main grocery manager on days. I think they are going to be spending most of their hours in dairy or frozen.
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It isn't day grocery's job to do the night load. The truck doesn't even come in until like 10. Day grocery is SUPPOSED to be filling holes, working Peytons, replenishing water, making bales, helping dairy/frozen occasionally, and make sure the backroom is cleaned up so that the night load can be processed. Now I know that the majority of the time they're slacking off, but we can't hold them responsible for EVERYTHING. Not their fault that most grocery managers just sit on the Kcomputer all night.
Most stores it's still almost all men workin overnight which is why it's still decent. Back in the day when mostly men did everything but bakery things were really good but now during the day it's mostly all women and children which is why almost all the stores are a disaster. Lower volume stores are really bad all these women standing around complaining and spreading rumors all day
Excuse me? If all female workers are all bad workers, then all male workers must be a bunch of damn creepy sexual harrassing perverts (ok not really)
I love how the bakery is the only dept. women are good enough for. Good thing i'm in a department suitable enough for you, lol.
I like having a female on nights. I think she's cute but I don't think I am her type... Also, I have to watch what I say. She hussles thru the work and runs circles around one of your younger guys. She also does the work to my standards while the younger guy does everything halfassed.
The last female we had, what a bich! I couldn't blink right for her.
Same thing at my store ... I can come in during the day and find most of them sipping coffee. don't know about you but i rarely get time to sip water let alone coffee. not saying all day and night crew are like this but night crew at my store do most of the work. stock Peyton and Grocery ... do back stock ... order...etc
Same thing at my store ... I can come in during the day and find most of them sipping coffee. don't know about you but i rarely get time to sip water let alone coffee. not saying all day and night crew are like this but night crew at my store do most of the work. stock Peyton and Grocery ... do back stock ... order...etc
Well yea... Day grocery's job is to be management's slave. Night grocery talks to 0 customers and 0 managers so they get all the work done. Coincidence? I think not.
Same thing at my store ... I can come in during the day and find most of them sipping coffee. don't know about you but i rarely get time to sip water let alone coffee. not saying all day and night crew are like this but night crew at my store do most of the work. stock Peyton and Grocery ... do back stock ... order...etc
Well yea... Day grocery's job is to be management's slave. Night grocery talks to 0 customers and 0 managers so they get all the work done. Coincidence? I think not.
lol. I have worked nights for many years before working at Kroger. I like working nights. Every place I have worked, it is the same way. Nightshift gets the bulk of the work done while day crew farts around.
And, I agree, they have to run around and kiss managers' butts al day...
More work is added to the night crew's load and more pressure is put on the night crew to get things done because during the daytime and evening, grocery is used to help check, bag and bring in carts, not to mention taking incoming phone calls, respond to pages for customer assistance, sometimes make multiple bales and unload grocery and frozen trucks. The night crew is expected to do more because night crew doesn't have to deal with the numerous tasks and issues that grocery day crew has to handle... so yeah, night crew is expected to accomplish more. Plus, night crew is actually a "crew" whereas daytime grocery consists of two people, at most, a day, and that's not every day, either, at least at my store. A typical day where I'm at might be something like this: the first grocery clerk doesn't come in until 2:00PM. He has eight hours to do his job while also doing all the aforementioned tasks I outlined. How is it fair to expect much to get done? If Kroger were to adequately staff its front ends with a sufficient number of checkers and baggers, then maybe grocery, produce, floral and drug/gm could get more work done rather than be expected to drop everything and come up front to help again, again and again! I would like to see just how much a night crew would accomplish if Kroger moved all night crews to days and the crews had to deal with everything daytime grocery has to on a daily basis.
Also... I don't know about other Kroger stores, but why is it since the night crew doesn't have to deal with customers/management, the crew still can't get all of its work done in an eight hour time frame without getting overtime regularly? Five nighttime grocery stockers, plus one, sometimes two nighttime frozen stockers, and the truck can't be finished without overtime? Again, I don't know about other Kroger stores... but where I'm at, could it be because night crew takes advantage of the fact management isn't there and fails to strive to work and condition at a steady pace and enjoys numerous cigarette breaks? Not an assumption on my part as I've worked overnight now and again, not stocking, but doing other tasks and it seems there's a lack of urgency on the night crew.
More work is added to the night crew's load and more pressure is put on the night crew to get things done because during the daytime and evening, grocery is used to help check, bag and bring in carts, not to mention taking incoming phone calls, respond to pages for customer assistance, sometimes make multiple bales and unload grocery and frozen trucks. The night crew is expected to do more because night crew doesn't have to deal with the numerous tasks and issues that grocery day crew has to handle... so yeah, night crew is expected to accomplish more. Plus, night crew is actually a "crew" whereas daytime grocery consists of two people, at most, a day, and that's not every day, either, at least at my store. A typical day where I'm at might be something like this: the first grocery clerk doesn't come in until 2:00PM. He has eight hours to do his job while also doing all the aforementioned tasks I outlined. How is it fair to expect much to get done? If Kroger were to adequately staff its front ends with a sufficient number of checkers and baggers, then maybe grocery, produce, floral and drug/gm could get more work done rather than be expected to drop everything and come up front to help again, again and again! I would like to see just how much a night crew would accomplish if Kroger moved all night crews to days and the crews had to deal with everything daytime grocery has to on a daily basis.
Also... I don't know about other Kroger stores, but why is it since the night crew doesn't have to deal with customers/management, the crew still can't get all of its work done in an eight hour time frame without getting overtime regularly? Five nighttime grocery stockers, plus one, sometimes two nighttime frozen stockers, and the truck can't be finished without overtime? Again, I don't know about other Kroger stores... but where I'm at, could it be because night crew takes advantage of the fact management isn't there and fails to strive to work and condition at a steady pace and enjoys numerous cigarette breaks? Not an assumption on my part as I've worked overnight now and again, not stocking, but doing other tasks and it seems there's a lack of urgency on the night crew.
I am on night grocery. Yes, we have slackers. Mainly my night grocery manager. He is under the impression he doesn't need to condition or run actual stock. He does the order, straightens the backroom, recieves if anything arrives overnight, fills water gallons and 32s,24s. He counts 2 pallets of 24s as running 168 cases! That's it. Slacks off the rest of the night because when I am in charge, I get all that done in less than 4 hours, then go run stock with the rest of the crew.
When I am in charge, I count productivity as a team effort among all of us. When my night manager is in charge, he counts productivity as him and the other full timer vs all the part timers. Of course they are cherry picking the air conditioned easy aisles. When the managers complain about OT, he throws the part timers under the bus. The sooner he retires, the better off our store will be.
Yes, most of our new people(mostly kids) come in with lack of urgency and really don't care what is getting done for minimum wage. Finally, we hired a kid that hussles but is sloppy. I am slowly trying to train him to do the work right.
