Sometimes I ask myself what sort of a b-a-s-t-a-r-d company I work for, and then I inadvertently get an answer.
Our store has a contest going right now for cashiers. They basically encourage the customers to give feedback. The cashier whose name appears the most by a certain date gets Thanksgiving Day off.
I know Thanksgiving is a busy time...but basically saying "You are going to work Thanksgiving and there is nothing you can do to stop it" with so many words, well, if that is what you are going to say, why not just come out and write the damn thing?
I would be more comfortable working for someone who was honest rather than trying to encourage employees to screw each other over or be super-duper cheerful through a "contest" like this one.
I would be more comfortable working for someone who was honest rather than trying to encourage employees to screw each other over or be super-duper cheerful through a "contest" like this one.
*sighs*
Why haven't you applied and working for another company than?
BTW how is Kroger not truthful. It sounds like they're totally honest, you're working thanksgiving. lol.
IMO I support stores that have worker who want to on thanksgiving . Schedule four hour shifts, employees can choose what times work for them, someone whose family eats early can choose the later shift while those who eat at a more traditional dinner time can work work in the morning...
look at this way, you're working making what double time? Get a floating day off? I often have to volunteer to work nights and weekends (my off time) I don't get paid extra, and I volunteer so I don't get to bitch that the b astard company is making me work. BTW, good luck not volunteering to work overtime for free because you'll be looked at as not being a team player and prob won't be working there for long. Welcome to salaried corporate America!
Why haven't you applied and working for another company than?
Being on foot or two wheels kind of limits what I can look around for at the moment.
BTW how is Kroger not truthful. It sounds like they're totally honest, you're working thanksgiving. lol.
I meant in the sense that it feels straight out of a Dilbert comic, just as most things Kroger does. Just "feels" like they are trying to say one thing loudly while whispering the other.
IMO I support stores that have worker who want to on thanksgiving . Schedule four hour shifts, employees can choose what times work for them, someone whose family eats early can choose the later shift while those who eat at a more traditional dinner time can work work in the morning...
look at this way, you're working making what double time? Get a floating day off? I often have to volunteer to work nights and weekends (my off time) I don't get paid extra, and I volunteer so I don't get to bitch that the b astard company is making me work. BTW, good luck not volunteering to work overtime for free because you'll be looked at as not being a team player and prob won't be working there for long. Welcome to salaried corporate America!
I don't know if it's double time or what. That's why I am trying to find out. And why in the hell would I work overtime for free? All my eight months here it has been drilled into me not to work off the clock. Given what I go through as a courtesy clerk, there is no way they could even try to get me to work 'for free'. I could care less at being looked at or not looked at. I've been there eight months. Unless I do something to be fired, I'm there until I find something better. Since it's Kroger, that's about anything.
Why haven't you applied and working for another company than?
Being on foot or two wheels kind of limits what I can look around for at the moment.
BTW how is Kroger not truthful. It sounds like they're totally honest, you're working thanksgiving. lol.
I meant in the sense that it feels straight out of a Dilbert comic, just as most things Kroger does. Just "feels" like they are trying to say one thing loudly while whispering the other.
IMO I support stores that have worker who want to on thanksgiving . Schedule four hour shifts, employees can choose what times work for them, someone whose family eats early can choose the later shift while those who eat at a more traditional dinner time can work work in the morning...
look at this way, you're working making what double time? Get a floating day off? I often have to volunteer to work nights and weekends (my off time) I don't get paid extra, and I volunteer so I don't get to bitch that the b astard company is making me work. BTW, good luck not volunteering to work overtime for free because you'll be looked at as not being a team player and prob won't be working there for long. Welcome to salaried corporate America!
I don't know if it's double time or what.
That's why I am trying to find out.
Why not ask management or HR?
And why in the hell would I work overtime for free?
I never YOU would, I was pointing out salaried people in corporate America work "overtime" nights and weekends for "free." why the hell would you work overtime for free? Well for starters I'd imagine that these types of positions pay much more than the front end at Kroger?
All my eight months here it has been drilled into me not to work off the clock.
Again your talking about working at Kroger, I never implied you should work for free, but while you're whining about working for free salaried employees in corporate America do it all the time.
Given what I go through as a courtesy clerk, there is no way they could even try to get me to work 'for free'.
Yawn see above and you might want to pick up a hooked on phonics because reading comprehension is scary.
I could care less at being looked at or not looked at.
Again I was referring to corporate salaried positions, if people didn't "volunteer" to stay late, come in early, on the weekends they probably wouldn't last long. someone who continually bitched about working for no extra pay probably wouldn't last long either!
I've been there eight months.
Wow!
Unless I do something to be fired, I'm there until I find something better.
Thats quite the ambition there! If that's the case why not just be thankful to have a job to hold uyou over instead of bitching about it everyone.
One year my department head made a list for people who wanted to work Thanksgiving and, to his surprise, everyone wanted to work Thanksgiving. Getting paid time and a half to look busy on the deadest day is pretty appealing.
One year my department head made a list for people who wanted to work Thanksgiving and, to his surprise, everyone wanted to work Thanksgiving. Getting paid time and a half to look busy on the deadest day is pretty appealing.
This^. I loved Thanksgiving day and the weekend after. Deader than a box of doornails. One store I was at did $15,000 in sales the day after Thanksgiving, after doing near $100K the day before.
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Around here thanksgiving and Christmas are triple time and volunteer work days. company can't schedule you unless you volunteer.
1. I've never heard of triple time in any contract...
2. Needs of the business. 'Nuff said.
3. Kroger is CLOSED on Christmas.
Do you even Kroger?
1. It does happen. There was a guy in another thread a couple days ago who gets paid >$60 an hour for holidays because of triple OT.
2. Not even sure what you mean with that, but whatever.
3. Whether stores close on major holidays is determined division-by-division. Some do, some don't.
1. Whoever said they got $60 an hour was likely trolling. If not, then his store manager's quarterly bonus is probably a lump of coal.
2. Needs of the business: Kroger can schedule people to work Thanksgiving if nobody volunteers
3. There are no Kroger stores opened on Christmas day. It would be a waste of wages and draw bad publicity.
1. Nah, that sounds reasonable. It was like $20 an hour straight pay for someone on an older contract living in LA, where the cost of living is way high.
2. Some contracts do specify certain holidays as volunteer-only but the company has been ok with that because there are ample volunteers because of, you guessed it, triple OT.
3. I have heard of stores in other divisions with weaker than usual unions and poor contracts being open 24/7/365 including Christmas. Just because your contract has you conditioned to thinking that being open that day is unspeakable, doesn't mean it never happens anywhere else.
-- Edited by techelite on Tuesday 14th of October 2014 01:08:01 AM
