I've been at Kroger for only 2 weeks and it's my second job. My primary job can run 10-14 hours a day up to 60+ hours a week.
When I hired on, I made it clear that I could work 4-5 hour shifts, 4-5 days a week, in a specific 9 hour time frame. They said it was no problem at all. Last Saturday when I got my schedule, they put me on for 35 hours and not within the times I said I could work. My direct supervisor does the scheduling for my department and when I brought this up to him, he said "We have a transfer and someone going on vacation, this is when I need you to work". I know the common response here is to get with my union rep but I'm not part of the union as it's not mandatory at my store. I don't want to lose this job but I'll be danged if I'm going to put my main job in jeopardy and I've got to sleep sometime.
My department is already a pretty hostile environment and now people are super pissed because they loaded these hours on me when other people want them. Any advice?
Speak to a store manager. Probably a co manager would be able to do more for you. Better yet, the person in the store that hired you and agreed to the hours you were available.
Your availability should have been set in eschedule by whoever hired you and agreed to the days you are available. You can try to go to Greatpeople.me and set your availability there. You should have gotten some kind of hiring booklet. Normally your user id and password are inside the front cover.
You might be able to go to the union even tho you are not a member but you are only two weeks in. I don't think it is worth the hassle.
I agree with what Anonymouse said. I would add too and not quite sure if you could do it or not having only been there for 2 weeks(and the probationary period thing). But if others are interested in your hours. I don't know if it's possible if you could swap hours with you on at least a few of the days maybe?
But yea, for sure talk to a union person or a store manager. See if they could help you find a way to getting the hours you need. Although I'll be honest with you, Kroger is a tough nugget some days. They want to be your PRIMARY job and sometimes will make it a hardship in working with you, if you have other job related priorities. Heck I'm surprised they are even working with so many folks that have to look after their grand kids and so forth. But they find a way.
Well first off, welcome to Kroger. While I understand you applied, in reality if your working 10-14 hours a shift at your other job and 60+ there too, you should not have been hired at Kroger. I have had numerous people hired as their 2nd job, while going to school and also with small children. While its great you want to work and make more money, the reality of you working more then 1 month or what is actually needed gets more and more remote as time goes on. Since the application pool is getting smaller and smaller, Kroger seems to be agreeing to anything just to get a body in the door. The canned response you received from MGMT, I will talk to them about opening up their availability. People were hired with a exceptions and limitations, but yet we think we can talk them into something else? ........sorry rant.....
You seem to think there are others that can take the hours, most stores are down to bare bones and hiring anything that remotely fits the hiring needed. You cant work Sundays or Saturdays and only want 10 hours a week....SURE....... (These associates normally show up to work and then do the bare minimum because they are not committed or don't care, that's if they show up at all)
Wow. What a great way to judge my situation without knowing what my other job is or why I wanted to work for Kroger.
I am absolutely capable of balancing the two jobs without issue, as long as they stick to their side of the agreement. I'm not working the second job just for the hell of it or just for some extra spending money. I have impeccable work ethic and I'm an expert in my field. However, my primary job is on a floating schedule basis with some on-call thrown in. Some weeks I work constantly, others I might only have one 14 hour shift. All the senior employees in my store have known me for over 30 years and they were the ones who suggested I come work with them. I'm not just another body through the door, this is something I've always wanted to do.
My problem lies with the fact that they asked for my availability, I gave it to them, and they breached that agreement almost immediately and dismissed me when I questioned it. I'll work the shifts because that's just how I am but giving me double the hours I agreed to instead of giving them to my co-workers who have seniority over me, and want them, is wrong. The fact that the hours are not within what I put in the system is also annoying because they made damn sure to let me know that I can't make any adjustments to them for 6 months.
-- Edited by IndyStorm on Tuesday 29th of August 2017 07:22:49 PM
Speak to a store manager. Probably a co manager would be able to do more for you. Better yet, the person in the store that hired you and agreed to the hours you were available.
Your availability should have been set in eschedule by whoever hired you and agreed to the days you are available. You can try to go to Greatpeople.me and set your availability there. You should have gotten some kind of hiring booklet. Normally your user id and password are inside the front cover.
You might be able to go to the union even tho you are not a member but you are only two weeks in. I don't think it is worth the hassle.
Don't put your primary job on the line.
Good luck with it.
Greatpeople.me was set up the day I did orientation and I can get to everything in there, thanks :) What's weird is that my immediate boss does his own scheduling and then we have a master scheduler for everyone else. I don't know if he even looked at my availability. I really like my job there but I feel that if I don't put my foot down about this issue right away, he might feel inclined to take advantage of me again. I'm all for helping out in a pinch but I'm really confused as to why he didn't give the hours to others who need and want them more than me *shrug*
Speak to a store manager. Probably a co manager would be able to do more for you. Better yet, the person in the store that hired you and agreed to the hours you were available.
Your availability should have been set in eschedule by whoever hired you and agreed to the days you are available. You can try to go to Greatpeople.me and set your availability there. You should have gotten some kind of hiring booklet. Normally your user id and password are inside the front cover.
You might be able to go to the union even tho you are not a member but you are only two weeks in. I don't think it is worth the hassle.
Don't put your primary job on the line.
Good luck with it.
Greatpeople.me was set up the day I did orientation and I can get to everything in there, thanks :) What's weird is that my immediate boss does his own scheduling and then we have a master scheduler for everyone else. I don't know if he even looked at my availability. I really like my job there but I feel that if I don't put my foot down about this issue right away, he might feel inclined to take advantage of me again. I'm all for helping out in a pinch but I'm really confused as to why he didn't give the hours to others who need and want them more than me *shrug*
Kroger needs to stick to the agreement they made with you. Defintely set your availability on e schedule, and tall to yourstore manager and make sure evryone us clear on your avaulability. Anduf you acnt wprk it, thwn dont, krogers shortages or hiring issues are not your problem.
Talk to your store manager about your availability.Then decide which job you want to keep in the long run and make that high priority.Then get the union involved.Or decide if you want to keep the Kroger job.
One of the stores I worked at could care less about honoring their employee availability.They had several no shows due to not adhering to schedule.Their employees were over worked.To the point of walking.They could have easily supplied several individuals with 40+ hour a week jobs but barely scheduled them any hours if at all.If it gets too hostile it's best not to stay.
I left my prior store because it cost my soul.The environment got hostile.I'm not sure if it was a group of people just hating me and it getting worse.Or more logical it was a demon hoping from individual to individual just harassing me.A demon sounds most logical because it can't be just coincidence that three individual customers with the same warped voice/personality trait coming out with every incident.Eventually it carried over to two employees with the same personality trait same warped voice that was clearly not their own.What did I do to them, personally?Nothing.They actually liked me.One day this peculiar voice just came out of me then they just hated me for no reason.They shouldn't have hated me to the point of unethical treatment.It got to the point of an unsafe environment.So I left.The managers cared less about their employee safety.They'd rather kiss ass and keep the loyalty of the customer.The sins of greed, wealth, arrogance and vanity ran the store.I'm glad I left/transferred.
Talk to HR, whoever hired you. Tell them that you agreed to work a certain availability and your dept isn't holding up its end.
I go out of my way to keep within availabilities and even try to give leeway to my full time but then they go too far and everybody wants to be home by 8pm. Yeah, no. Sorry.
What's pissing me off is new hires coming in and immediately trying to get out of the availabilities they agreed to as part of the hiring. They arrive fresh out of training and start talking about a 2nd job or some other reason. Now hold on a second, we just spent over $2000 hiring & training you. You were available six days, now you're saying two, you were hired to close but now you can't. Why are you even still here wasting my time and my hours?
