Ive been working my ass off as a bagger for a year, asking every manager weve had if i can be moved to another department, each one says something like "uh next time a position opens up ill see" which is obvious bull**** because they hire someone new the next day around the same age as me.
What the **** do i have to do to move departments? I work my ass off every day, never written up before. And my managers dont give a ****.
My store doesnt have a union rep, but i am in the union
How old are you and how long have you been working at Kroger?
What state are you in? If you are in the union, you should have a shop steward. I don't think the union can force the manger to move you to a different department.
Do you have a department you want to get into? Speak to that department manager.
Keep casually pestering the store managers until they give you a shot in another department. Maybe even ask the person that does the hiring for the store.
For now, keep doing your job the best you can with a smile and wait for the opportunity to move to another department. If your store is anything like our store, they are short of courtesy clerks because all the high school and college kids have gone back to school.
How old are you and how long have you been working at Kroger?
What state are you in? If you are in the union, you should have a shop steward. I don't think the union can force the manger to move you to a different department.
Do you have a department you want to get into? Speak to that department manager.
Keep casually pestering the store managers until they give you a shot in another department. Maybe even ask the person that does the hiring for the store.
For now, keep doing your job the best you can with a smile and wait for the opportunity to move to another department. If your store is anything like our store, they are short of courtesy clerks because all the high school and college kids have gone back to school.
You are on the pretense that our store is well ran. My store is like 40 years old and broken down. Corporate moves the worst managers to my store (vendors tell me this). The back is always a huge mess and we have the highest shrink in the division. Working hard and smiling does not advance my position when my managers dont care about hard work. Thats why im aksing how can i move besides asking my managers, because those dumbassses will never move me.
Do you have a department you want to get into? Speak to that department manager.
This, especially, although the rest of the advice given is good, too. If, for example, you want to move to produce, talk to the department head in produce. If he or she wants you bad enough, then BOTH of you can go to management and discuss the transfer, and that will potentially boost your odds of moving to another department. A lot of times, co-managers/store managers either don't really care/are too busy and it slips their minds to focus time and energy on moving people between departments, but department heads are MUCH more interested in hearing from someone that wants to come to his or her department, and if you have a reputation as being a good, reliable worker and an availability schedule that works for that department head, he or she will often times devote A LOT of time and effort in making the transfer happen.
Of course, if you're recognized as one of the best workers on the front end and your CSM wants to be selfish about it, he or she can make the transfer either like pulling teeth or block it all together so that he or she doesn't lose a quality worker... because we all know how hard it is to come by quality workers, on the front end especially.
Do you have a department you want to get into? Speak to that department manager.
This, especially, although the rest of the advice given is good, too. If, for example, you want to move to produce, talk to the department head in produce. If he or she wants you bad enough, then BOTH of you can go to management and discuss the transfer, and that will potentially boost your odds of moving to another department. A lot of times, co-managers/store managers either don't really care/are too busy and it slips their minds to focus time and energy on moving people between departments, but department heads are MUCH more interested in hearing from someone that wants to come to his or her department, and if you have a reputation as being a good, reliable worker and an availability schedule that works for that department head, he or she will often times devote A LOT of time and effort in making the transfer happen.
Of course, if you're recognized as one of the best workers on the front end and your CSM wants to be selfish about it, he or she can make the transfer either like pulling teeth or block it all together so that he or she doesn't lose a quality worker... because we all know how hard it is to come by quality workers, on the front end especially.
We had a courtesy clerk who tried for a year to become a cashier. Our FEM wouldn't let her because she was such a good courtesy clerk. FEM got transferred to another store and courtesy clerk finally got to be a cashier. Try talking to department managers as others have said; that's how I got transferred to another department.
