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Availability: Is Seven-Day/Night Wide Open the Only Option?

One store is kind of making it seem that way by leaving submitted availability revisions pending indefinitely (ten days) or sometimes by declining them the day of schedule-writing . . . which kicks the can down the road and leaves the worker stuck with an initial, undesirable availability.  The department head and store manager are nice, just unaccommodating on this issue, the use of a basic tool--availability--thought to to be available to Kroger employees.  

Do new people need to "play ball" by offering up seven-day/night, wide-open availability?  The store has abused this by breaching the ten-hours-between-shifts rule (Section 9.11, Kroger and UFCW Local 1000 Agreement) by keeping a new, probationary employee late at night, then requiring the worker back at 0700.  What's a fenugie going to do about that, though?  Availability could be a remedy . . . if the employee were actually allowed to use this tool.

Do veteran employees ever acquire somewhat regular--i.e., either days, evenings, or nights, but not a random mishmash of fragments of all these--shifts?

Is a regular day off (say, Tuesdays) a pipe dream?

What about regular, consecutive days off, say Tuesdays and Wednesdays?

Thanks for your insight.

 



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Depends heavily on the department you're working. Night crew obviously get the same shift all the time, just days change for part timers. Full timers usually have regular days off(I say regular and not guaranteed as that can change at any time depending on the needs of the store)

Front end usually gets the worst of it. I'd definitely be looking for another job if I had to alternate shifts with that much volatility that they do at my store. Every other department usually has somewhat of a routine, that changes from time to time, but in general days off/shifts are fairly regular. It all boils down to your part timers, produce usually gets underage part timers that cycle in and out so their schedules change more frequently than others who don't have to deal with that. Meat department is mostly full time, so their' don't change much.

Regular consecutive days off would be considered a pipe dream. Most department managers don't even get that. I consider myself very lucky to be able to have it. It just so happens that having my consecutive days off(Friday/Saturday) is the best given the truck/order schedules. Several people wanted my position, a couple of which were department managers and were willing to actually take a big pay cut in pay to get it(lead frozen) simply because of the days off and how rare that is to find.

And yes, seniority plays a big role as does having full time.



-- Edited by DeltaGrocery on Tuesday 18th of November 2014 06:35:37 AM

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