I started working at Kroger 3 weeks ago in the frozen dept. I am now being told that I am going to have to get a cashier # so that the front end can call me up to ring.
I consider myself pretty competent and it feels like the management is starting to take advantage of that. I have been thrown in multiple other departments without training because I can handle it. I have even been tasked to work frozen and then a different dept in the same night because the person working in that dept "gets easily overwhelmed" (smart kid).
Considering I make 10C over minimum wage, I'm not too siked about busting ass all day while other new hires are given long leashes and low expectations. And I really don't want to be a cashier (or I would have applied for that position).
Has anyone gotten out of doing relief cashiering? Any advice? Should I just **** it up on purpose?
It's up to you if you want to. It's not a have to. The duties of a replenishment clerk may or may not require to have cashier skills. If a store is short on cashiers they like to have as many cross trained individuals as possible. Our store has two replenishment clerks that are not cashier trained. If you're at a high volume store you'll find it difficult to get any sort of work done. They're getting a lot of hours but they're also loosing out on working through the journeyman pay scale pay steps by not being a cashier. It's entirely up to you. Remember it's not a have to. It's an option not requirement.
Keep in mind the pay steps are ridiculous long to work through and you'll be at 10 cents above minimum for like five years before you even see any pay raises. Assumingly you're 40 hours a week and they don't play hour games with your earned hours.
Chances are, you will spend hours up front, and then get in trouble for it. Your department will get trashed, you won't be able to finish your work, and they will pretend it's all your fault.
And then you will get in trouble again when you stop coming up.
This is how I got out of it as a full-time back-up Drug/gm manager.
I simply told management 1st I have never been trained to be a cashier, EVER. 2nd and most important to mention. "I refuse to run a register that someone else has already touched the till." On the front end that can write you up or even fire you for practically anything, because you are dealing with cash.
