Anyone else's store having trouble hiring all of a sudden? Many people leaving, not many joining at mine. Hard to get people to work part-time and minimum wage, it seems. Anyone working more than a year is a dinosaur and everyone gets full time in the first few months if they serve their time. Sign of economic rebound?
Yep. Like a teenager staring into a seemingly empty fridge, the hiring managers are constantly lowering their standards at my store. One guy said he wasn't even drug tested... But yes this is an economic recovery for sure.
I know that our salaried managers are working themselves to death because the store is short nearly 200 hours. I haven't seen a new hire other than one front end in the last couple of months. Maybe it's time to *GASP* raise the wages a little.
It's been like that at my store (and surrounding Kroger stores) for roughly a month now. More and more "Now Hiring" signs, brochures and stuff are showing up throughout the store everyday, plus employees are requested to wear "Yes, We're Hiring!" ribbons on name tags.
Gosh, what a surprise. Pay minimum wage while competitors in the area pay a dollar or more (sometimes several dollars more) and nobody wants to work for Kroger? Never saw that one coming. Amazing how a "leader" in the grocery industry can be so far behind in wages. Of course, what's more amazing is the degree of greed on the part of Kroger executives.
Anyone else's store having trouble hiring all of a sudden? Many people leaving, not many joining at mine. Hard to get people to work part-time and minimum wage, it seems. Anyone working more than a year is a dinosaur and everyone gets full time in the first few months if they serve their time. Sign of economic rebound?
at ours, for our front end, it's not the economy causing people to leave. It's the fact that our front end department sucks balls.
People just get tired of the crap, especially the parking lot duty, and eventually quit. We have three people as 'Unavil' this week out of maybe 18 or so courtesy clerks on the roster.
I'm saving up to get my car repaired, and then once it's back on the road with insurance paid and tag and title taken care of legally, I'm looking outside this city for work. Good thing is, it's possible, and hopefully won't take too long. Don't really feel like going through a one-year anniversary celebration with these bozos or this company.
Raising the wages won't help unless they actually schedule the necessary hours.
Indeed, and as long as they rely upon a computer program that sees only ones and zeros and not real life to spit out the schedule, that's not going to happen.
Kroger is the worst company I have worked for, schedule-wise. I definitely see the benefits of quitting this job and finding one where I know that I'm going to work 9-5, or 8-1, or whatever, each day. Monotonous? Sure. But stability helps me to plan out when I can get groceries, or watch a television program that I like, or take care of family, etc.
Kroger's scheduling seems so random that any of our customers could stare at it for five minutes and figure out a computer made it rather than a human being.
If a human was able to make the same goody schedules as Eschedule, they would probably be diagnosed with schizophrenia.
eschedule is a hot mess. if you have all the bodies you need with the availabilities you need then it's dead simple but it doesn't know about stuff like meetings and anything out of the ordinary. but it'll still do random crap like short a full time person 8 hrs. you have to do a lot of manual set up in a real world store before you run the rest of it, you then have to go back in and fill those holes.
Anyone else's store having trouble hiring all of a sudden? Many people leaving, not many joining at mine. Hard to get people to work part-time and minimum wage, it seems. Anyone working more than a year is a dinosaur and everyone gets full time in the first few months if they serve their time. Sign of economic rebound?
Until they start bringing manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. the economy isn't going to turn around. Every job, no matter what, is either directly or indirectly tied to the sale of some product to the general public. When politicians say they're going to create jobs, the first thing I ask is how. Where is the money coming from that's being used to pay for these new job?
Crap contracts, means people get burned out quickly, just like fast food. Kroger is getting by on the old timers on the good contracts. That won't end well for them.
