Question: Are the deli and the bakery considered one department or 2? I've heard that they are one department and that the deli manager is in charge of both, and I've also heard that the bakery is a completely separate department with its own manager. Just curious.
It depends on how big the deli and bakery departments are. At my store, we have a deli manager and a bakery manager. When the bakery manager is off, the deli manager helps out in bakery if needed but lets the bakery workers do their work without interference. When the deli manager is off the bakery manager will oversee things unless the backup deli manager is there or one of the chefs is there. Our bakery does around 20k a week. One person couldn't handle both departments.
Deli and bakery are two separate departments for most stores, but the bakery is considered, for contract purposes, a subdepartment under deli. So technically, the deli manager is above the bakery manager in seniority, but at least in my store, the deli manager lets us do our own thing and doesn't butt into the bakery matters at all. Even when i ran relief for a month they didn't micromanage me.
Basically, anyone who works in the deli or bakery is a deli/bakery clerk, but we are divided into deli clerks and bakery clerks. Occasionally people can work both but at least in my store it's very rare.
-- Edited by 4hourrush on Thursday 5th of May 2016 09:30:50 PM
The way they would like to do it, because it saves them money, is to have one deli manager and two back-ups. Personally, I think that's too many people in charge. One person might tell you one thing and the other one will tell you the opposite. Also, the pay for being a back-up isn't worth all the hassle. At my store, back-ups only get a quarter more an hour unless they are certified. When a back-up becomes certified, they move to a higher wage. The problem is you have to jump through so many hoops to get certified that it's practically impossible.
You have a crappy contract then because here, deli backup is paid $17 an hour, same as the bakery manager.
I was wrong about the 25 cents. It's 75 cents over your regular clerk rate. Upon completion of qualification criteria, a back-up moves to the back-up pay rate schedule. Currently it's $16.75/hr. The problem is they don't tell you what that qualification criteria is or what the steps are to complete it.
Thats still a crappy contract in my opinion, where i am, even if you just run relief for a week that your manager is on vacation, you get their payrate for the week. no weird criteria needed other than to be good enough to be picked to run the department.
Thats still a crappy contract in my opinion, where i am, even if you just run relief for a week that your manager is on vacation, you get their payrate for the week. no weird criteria needed other than to be good enough to be picked to run the department.
They do that here too but how much does the back-up at your store make under normal circumstances when both the deli manager and the back-up are there in the same week?
