I looked at my schedule last Saturday and it showed the week after this they have me off 4 days in a row and only working 14 hrs that week. This has never happened before to me. its the least hours in a week Ive ever worked. I know people have said that hours get cut this time of year but this is getting ridiculous. Has this been happening to other people?
I looked at my schedule last Saturday and it showed the week after this they have me off 4 days in a row and only working 14 hrs that week. This has never happened before to me. its the least hours in a week Ive ever worked. I know people have said that hours get cut this time of year but this is getting ridiculous. Has this been happening to other people?
Our store too. If I get 14 hours, I ain't showing up for work. They did that to me when I had Frozen. Only gave me 14 hours for the other guy. He didn't show up for the whole entire week. Left me a truck every night to finish. 12 hours a night! Wasn't cool at all.
This is the New Kroger. Every store, everywhere is having there hours cut. As explained to me by district staff, it all has to do with the required elms rating being increased. Before a 100% rating was the goal. Now corporate has raised the goal to 109%, thus less hours to meet same sales, in order to make percentage go up. If you are not familiar with ELMS rating it is the hours given versus sales. A 100% rating means you meet your sales forecast and didn't go over in hours for the week.
This is the New Kroger. Every store, everywhere is having there hours cut. As explained to me by district staff, it all has to do with the required elms rating being increased. Before a 100% rating was the goal. Now corporate has raised the goal to 109%, thus less hours to meet same sales, in order to make percentage go up. If you are not familiar with ELMS rating it is the hours given versus sales. A 100% rating means you meet your sales forecast and didn't go over in hours for the week.
this is the stupidest thing I've heard. it doesn't even take into account all of the thefts that take place that deduct from the so called goal. and the company doesn't even give a crap to harden itself against theft. **** a door greeter or a security guard that stands at the door and simply acts as a door ornament. if corporate is doing nothing about theft and are cutting hours regardless, it just sounds like they are sampling the idea of cutting positions without cutting positions
Transfer to ClickList. If your ClickList department is anything like mine you'll have plenty of hours because in my opinion we're overstaffed six out of the seven days a week (the one day we're not being Sunday). Even part timers get 40 hours a week in general. When there are three or four closers in ClickList there up till the 9:00PM hour and they are all just back there talking away, playing music on their phones and whatnot, then yeah, that's how you know Kroger scheduling/budgeting is beyond stupid and messed up.
This is the New Kroger. Every store, everywhere is having there hours cut. As explained to me by district staff, it all has to do with the required elms rating being increased. Before a 100% rating was the goal. Now corporate has raised the goal to 109%, thus less hours to meet same sales, in order to make percentage go up. If you are not familiar with ELMS rating it is the hours given versus sales. A 100% rating means you meet your sales forecast and didn't go over in hours for the week.
this is the stupidest thing I've heard. it doesn't even take into account all of the thefts that take place that deduct from the so called goal. and the company doesn't even give a crap to harden itself against theft. **** a door greeter or a security guard that stands at the door and simply acts as a door ornament. if corporate is doing nothing about theft and are cutting hours regardless, it just sounds like they are sampling the idea of cutting positions without cutting positions
You make good points, but 'sense' isn't Kroger's motivation here. It's elliminating long term/higher wage earning staff, breaking the union completely, and having what will probably be 10% 'long term' staff (1-3 years max) to perpetually train an ever revolving door of temp/p.t. employees.
They just did a remodel and now they have a lot more BS they want us to do in the deli. The grab and go used to be just a quick thing we had to fill every morning. Now it's an all day event because they expanded it and we have to make 30+ bags of each meat on the list in between customers. And I heard from a higher up that soon we'd be doing a second grab and go at the same time for Boar's Head brand meat. We also have to have someone making sandwiches with the expired grab and go meat. And we have click list and that new in-store pickup thing.
So all things considered you'd think they'd have more staff to deal with this new workload. Nope. They cut hours and a lot of times it's just one person working in the deli because they also have our department head (who doesn't help with customers or grab and go) and the chef (who doesn't do grab and go and also only deals with customers of the chef case) so those two also count as employees even though they don't really help much. It's just one person who has to do hours worth of grab and go, make sandwiches, make party trays, do click list, and try to wait on customers.
Everyone is getting hours cut. All divisions all stores, even the ones carrying an area in sales. This happened before but not so inclusive division wise. Can't wait to see how this plays out.
Going by what I have read in this post, what do you think customers will do?
Unfortunately, they will do little or nothing, other than complain a little here and there. They will say they are going to start shopping elsewhere, but they usually come back after a few weeks.
