Management seems to like to make people clean up and do reshop and other stuff when their shift is over, which is the same time the store is closing. And customers are rushing cause it's christmas eve.
Do you all stay and help out and get the extra overtime or do you gtfo?
Before I started working morning shifts, I'd almost always have closing shifts, so I'd be there on the nights when the store closed early. The closing co-manager would rush us out as fast as the remaining customers because the sooner we all left, the sooner the co-manager could leave, so the situation you're describing was never the case at my store.
At higher volume stores its impractical to think carts, backstock and customers will be done/out of the store 15 mins after closing. ****, customers are not out of the stores until 15 mins after closing, in reality closing people should be scheduled 1 hours later then the stores closes and told they can leave early if lot, perishable backstock, registers cleaned. It interesting how people work a little faster get to stuff done when its the holiday season.
Yes and no. It depends on what personality type of closing manager you're dealing with---and early Christmas eve closings will definitely tell you that.
Most of em were just like us and wanted out on time. The other controla psychos? I'd sneak out past em
At higher volume stores its impractical to think carts, backstock and customers will be done/out of the store 15 mins after closing. ****, customers are not out of the stores until 15 mins after closing, in reality closing people should be scheduled 1 hours later then the stores closes and told they can leave early if lot, perishable backstock, registers cleaned. It interesting how people work a little faster get to stuff done when its the holiday season.
Management seems to like to make people clean up and do reshop and other stuff when their shift is over, which is the same time the store is closing. And customers are rushing cause it's christmas eve.
Do you all stay and help out and get the extra overtime or do you gtfo?
I finally wasn't on holiday closing this year(worked an 8 to 4). But in years past, other than a quick stop upstairs to my locker to get my stuff, I'm out of the store at 6:05 at the latest. As we start clean up and what not earlier on the holidays. So when it's time to go, it's time to book for everybody.
idgaf about xmas, i think i get time and a half working the day before + the day after (correct me if i'm wrong), so i volunteer to work holidays. want to work new year and get double pay + time and a half
Did not work Christmas eve but if I do its only until 2 or 3.
I did hear from some people at my store that people were trying to get in 5 minutes before closing time and were mad, then asked if we were open tomorrow.
Did not work Christmas eve but if I do its only until 2 or 3.
I did hear from some people at my store that people were trying to get in 5 minutes before closing time and were mad, then asked if we were open tomorrow.
It's because of people like this that Kroger will eventually be open regular hours on Christmas Eve... and at some point, will be open on Christmas Day. Corporate doesn't care about employees having time to be with families and friends on a holiday; corporate cares about missing out on the money from the customers that are being turned away at closing/not being able to shop at Kroger on Christmas Day.
I haven't closed on a holiday for a while now, but from what i remember, management wants us out the door asap. The sooner they get everyone out the door the sooner they get to leave too.
When they say they close at 6, they want us out the door at 6.
Our co-manager stated over the PA that we were closing at 5 PM sharp and told customers "to make their final purchases now"..."When 5 PM comes, the lights will go out...I repeat...The lights will go out...It is a safety hazard and we are concerned for the well-being of our customers, so please make your final purchases now and come up to the registers...Thank you all for shopping and have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!"
I like the "safety hazard" angle...And our co-manager was NOT playing!
Of course, as always, 5 PM came and there were customers STILL in the store...We get a wide variety of people in the store and I guess not everyone celebrates Christmas or understands why we had to close! Still, everyone was shuttled out as fast as possible...
I worked for Walmart for a number of years and every Xmas eve it was the same battle, herding the sheeple out of there. It actually was a source of amuzement for me, and I would volunteer to be door guard (letting people out while blocking others coming in).
People would roll up, lower their car windows and yell 'What, yall CLOSED? WTF???!!!' And others pounding frantically on the locked door 'PLEASE! JUST FIVE MINUTES, I KNOW RIGHT WHERE IT'S AT LEMME IN LEMME IN LEMME IN PLEEEEASE!!!!!
Acting all shocked and furious. Like we didn't do the exact same thing every single year, lol
We turned one guy away despite his pleading one last year. We were closed and he got to begging. We still said no. He then went absolutely positively livid. Kicking and pounding the door. Finally we decided to be 'nice' and call the police who "insisted" that he spend the night at their "place" until morning. Yeah...he was not happy, and corporate would hear about it from him.
I keep getting assigned to the main U-scan on Christmas Eve. Third year in a row. So, no, I can't bolt out, I'm the last one to shut down.
The last couple years weren't so bad, but this time I got one of those customers at five after.
Big order, but the last register just got closed down, so they were coming to me anyway. Tee-hee, they didn't know we closed at six despite the large signs at the doors and half an hour of announcements every five minutes. Didn't want me-- who knows how to operate the U-scan as fast as humanly possible-- to scan their stuff for them, but decided to have one person scanning, one person bagging, and one person messing with the bags for no reason (despite this slowing them down and causing constant weight errors.) Wanted to argue the candy prices, swap this for that, didn't want these frozen wings or that soda, can you take this off because it's too expensive? Wait, no, I want it after all. What do you mean you had someone put it back?
It took them until nearly 6:30 to finish their order, and one of them wanted to go back and get one more thing before I shut the register down. (FES had my back with "we closed half an hour ago.")
