Supposedly the people in the service departments are going to be forced to run register now as well. That all of us should be trained, and that they can and will start calling us up.
I know the people in produce/dairy/grocery will probably feel no sympathy but how the hell are we supposed to just go up there and leave a service department empty?
IDK if this is even try because i haven't seen the new contract but i heard it from someone today.
We have several deli ppl who can do basic register ops but only because they have a till in the bistro and they sell ribs outside around holidays with the mobile till.
However, training those associates enough to call them up to the front I would have to disagree with, even being a front end associate. I use other depts during surges when I have to (which is less than im supposed to) only because I know this whole "use quevision to cut FE labor and replace it with other depts" BS isn't going away anytime soon. But using prime service depts to do that is just going too far.
Not pointing at you, but most deli people are too lazy to focus on doing one task. The day that I see a deli clerk run a big boy register is the same day that I'll see a meat clerk make a ****ing bale.
Not pointing at you, but most deli people are too lazy to focus on doing one task. The day that I see a deli clerk run a big boy register is the same day that I'll see a meat clerk make a ****ing bale.
The deli has a register it in and when I get something from there I know better than to have them ring something up. I just go to uscan because they will press a bunch of buttons and I say something's not working can you pay upfront
I've heard about this too. They pulled one of our guys from my department the other day for 3 hours worth of "training" on the register. He said that the woman who was training him complained about how produce and nutrition don't pull their weight in the store. We were already shorthanded and didn't have anybody working our entire department for that period of time.
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Don't know how you got started with Krogers but where Im employed, everyone starts out as a bagger or a cashier,so if there is a customer need on the front end....off we go and we drop what we are doing......thats just the way it is in my neck of the woods.
Don't know how you got started with Krogers but where Im employed, everyone starts out as a bagger or a cashier,so if there is a customer need on the front end....off we go and we drop what we are doing......thats just the way it is in my neck of the woods.
That's how all Krogers should be. I'm pretty sure even Target makes all their floor associates learn how to check. It just makes sense, because if you don't know how to use the register, you won't be able to help when there is an inevitable shortage of cashiers. Ideally, relief help is used only a couple times a day, but in bigger stores especially that just doesn't happen.
It must be different here then because I started directly in the bakery, I never worked FE. Usually the only people who started out as a bagger are the people who were hired before they were 18.
Deli/Bakery is on the Meat contract in the Local 75 and are NOT to be called up front. Only the ones on the Grocery contract, ie Dairy, Frozen, Produce, Floral, Grocery and now Non-Foods (for no more than 4hrs 15 minutes in a week) If Non-Foods is used longer than that then they get top pay for the week. (Cinti/ Dayton contract)
Don't know what world you live in..local 400 in Ashland Kentucky when there is a surge on the front end...everyone and anyone is expected to help....period.
Don't know what world you live in..local 400 in Ashland Kentucky when there is a surge on the front end...everyone and anyone is expected to help....period.
Well... Obviously we live in a different world from yours, because here, deli/bakery and meat/seafood can't be called up to check even tho they're on the same contract as us.
