Last week we had 3 people in the deli/bakery quit and one was in the hospital for a few days. We've only had 3 people in the deli a day and the bakery has been closing at 3:30 several times because of the lack of help and the one person being sick. When the schedule for this week came out everyone in the deli and bakery had 40 hours. Most over 6 days, a few over 5. There is only one day this week that the deli has 4 people scheduled from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. It's mostly 3 people covering those hours this week.
Well when the schedule was posted for this week a co-manager called down and told the department manager we were 23 hours over budget for hours on the week. How is this when we lost 3 people and don't have enough to cover the departments? They are so crazy about not allowing overtime it's really dragging us downhill.
-- Edited by krogerman77 on Tuesday 9th of September 2014 08:31:30 PM
It's the same exact thing that's going on at my store here in Vegas. My store director is always kicking us out at the time we're supposed to leave now, on the dot. He used to give us at least an our or two of overtime everyday. Now he gets irritable and kicks us out at our appointed time every morning. It's rather irritating. Because now my paychecks are small as heck every week now.
I overhead someone at my store saying that my store director's upper manager was grilling her out because she handed out 220+ hours over to the employees. It's dumb because our store just received record sales this month. So it seems money isn't really the issue in this case.
Problem is the other two stores in the area couldn't spare anyone. The first store was just as short handed and the other had some on vacation. Another problem we have is that one girl in the bakery is going back to college and a guy in the deli is going into the military and no help has been added. Oh, and they still want us to go up front to help out.
