I'm sure other stores have rolled this out already also.
I work in the Meat Department, and I've heard talk that management wants us to set up a little hotplate/electric grill, in order to serve hotdogs or other meat items to customers. Personally, I am NOT doing that. Serving food like that was NOT what I was hired for.
If they do start that at my store, I'll see how long it takes before they fire me for not serving food to customers. It'll be interesting.
I work in the meat dept. and management won't let me were a RW and B shirt even though there are boxes full of them. I can wear an apron which my response was I don't wear aprons but I do were a shirts. But no I'm not allowed to wear it, the fuhrer has spoken.
I think they're special because I like my steak in one piece, portioned properly, and not look like it was jammed through a shredder designed to remove protein and leave fat.
I think it's bull that we aren't allowed to have the shirts, only the aprons. having an apron in the bakery is definitely nice but we don't even match the other half of the store, looks stupid to me.
The Meat Market at my store was instructed to start cooking up and selling hot dogs and stuff to customers starting today as part of the Red, White and Barbecue promotion. Meat Market is going along with it, regardless of how the people in that department feel about it. My guess is they aren't exactly jumping for joy.
Complains on the customer receipt tracker are flowing in about Red, White and Barbecue in the deli department. Customers don't like the same exact hot food being served day and night, day after day. They want variety. Guess what? That receipt tracker they desperately want to get to 70% is going to be going the other way, now, lol. Kroger sure knows how to piss off both customer and employee alike. It's what the company is best at.
Here, we didn't get shirts, but instead, we all have to wear the dumb aprons. Every. Single. Department. The courtesy clerks are outside getting carts in aprons, lol.
Stupid, stupid, stupid, but hey, that's Kroger for you.
The Meat Market at my store was instructed to start cooking up and selling hot dogs and stuff to customers starting today as part of the Red, White and Barbecue promotion. Meat Market is going along with it, regardless of how the people in that department feel about it. My guess is they aren't exactly jumping for joy.
Oh jesus. I go into work tomorrow for the first time since all this RW&B crap started. If we have to cook hot dogs or anything else, I will definitely refuse to. I might quit on the spot if they press the issue. I'm already stressed enough with my classes (Sorry, software engineering and calculus 3 are difficult classes and require TIME), and they won't cut my hours down enough. (I honestly just want the minimum 12 hours, not....38 like I have this week).
The Meat Market at my store was instructed to start cooking up and selling hot dogs and stuff to customers starting today as part of the Red, White and Barbecue promotion. Meat Market is going along with it, regardless of how the people in that department feel about it. My guess is they aren't exactly jumping for joy.
Oh jesus. I go into work tomorrow for the first time since all this RW&B crap started. If we have to cook hot dogs or anything else, I will definitely refuse to. I might quit on the spot if they press the issue. I'm already stressed enough with my classes (Sorry, software engineering and calculus 3 are difficult classes and require TIME), and they won't cut my hours down enough. (I honestly just want the minimum 12 hours, not....38 like I have this week).
Oh I'm sure with it being the weekend and all, management's going to want Meat Market grilling for customers during certain hours of the day. It's not just coming from management though... it's corporate telling management "this is what we expect you guys to do to make this promotion a success" and if management doesn't follow the promotion, they're the ones that will get chewed out, and you know they're going to do whatever they can to avoid that.
Kroger is suffering from a severe hiring shortage right now... I don't think store management at any of the stores is interested in letting employees work a reduced number of hours.
Good luck, and do whatever it takes to not let the stress get in the way of your classes. That's your future right there, not Kroger.
The Meat Market at my store was instructed to start cooking up and selling hot dogs and stuff to customers starting today as part of the Red, White and Barbecue promotion. Meat Market is going along with it, regardless of how the people in that department feel about it. My guess is they aren't exactly jumping for joy.
Oh jesus. I go into work tomorrow for the first time since all this RW&B crap started. If we have to cook hot dogs or anything else, I will definitely refuse to. I might quit on the spot if they press the issue. I'm already stressed enough with my classes (Sorry, software engineering and calculus 3 are difficult classes and require TIME), and they won't cut my hours down enough. (I honestly just want the minimum 12 hours, not....38 like I have this week).
Oh I'm sure with it being the weekend and all, management's going to want Meat Market grilling for customers during certain hours of the day. It's not just coming from management though... it's corporate telling management "this is what we expect you guys to do to make this promotion a success" and if management doesn't follow the promotion, they're the ones that will get chewed out, and you know they're going to do whatever they can to avoid that.
Kroger is suffering from a severe hiring shortage right now... I don't think store management at any of the stores is interested in letting employees work a reduced number of hours.
Good luck, and do whatever it takes to not let the stress get in the way of your classes. That's your future right there, not Kroger.
Well if management doesn't want to get chewed out, then they can come back to the meat department and grill it themselves, then clean the dishes when they are done. I know I never took ServSafe training, how am I expected to cook and hand out food for customers?
As for the reduced hours: Wow, usually you have to fight to get more hours. I'm scheduled for 38 this upcoming week. I want 12 to 18 hours...not double that. I looked at my workload for one of my classes....I can't do it if I have to be at Kroger 5 nights a week. I put a request in on e-schedule to ask for another day off, but if that gets denied, I guess I will be calling out.
The Meat Market at my store was instructed to start cooking up and selling hot dogs and stuff to customers starting today as part of the Red, White and Barbecue promotion. Meat Market is going along with it, regardless of how the people in that department feel about it. My guess is they aren't exactly jumping for joy.
Oh jesus. I go into work tomorrow for the first time since all this RW&B crap started. If we have to cook hot dogs or anything else, I will definitely refuse to. I might quit on the spot if they press the issue. I'm already stressed enough with my classes (Sorry, software engineering and calculus 3 are difficult classes and require TIME), and they won't cut my hours down enough. (I honestly just want the minimum 12 hours, not....38 like I have this week).
Do what I did and quit. AEM and "Engineering stats" are a pain in the neck already.
We don't even have official meat cutters in my store. Only 2 managers and the rest of us are clerks.
Yet store management wonders why we don't cut to fill up the service case and fresh case! Hah, because we get paid $7.35 an hour, that's why!
When I started, mimimum wage was $3.35/hr. People didn't mind being paid that much back then because they knew if they stuck it out, the pay and benefits would pay off in the future. The new hires have nothing to look forward to. Sure they'll get raises but their pay and benefits will never be comparable to what the 20+ year veterans have now. This pass contract they reduced the maximum number of vacation weeks for new hires to 4 weeks. Current employees get a maximum of 6 weeks. On the last contract they took away overtime for working over 32 hours during a holiday week. That applies to people who were hired after the contract was ratified. Current employees at the time of ratification still only have to work 32 hours during a holiday week before getting overtime. I bet the next thing they'll take away is holiday pay for certain holidays. They'll probably take away Memorial Day and either New Year's Day or Thanksgiving. Then, they'll start staying open on Christmas Day and all the newer people will have to work. With every contract, new hires get fewer and fewer benefits and therefore reasons to stick around.
We don't even have official meat cutters in my store. Only 2 managers and the rest of us are clerks.
Yet store management wonders why we don't cut to fill up the service case and fresh case! Hah, because we get paid $7.35 an hour, that's why!
When I started, mimimum wage was $3.35/hr. People didn't mind being paid that much back then because they knew if they stuck it out, the pay and benefits would pay off in the future. The new hires have nothing to look forward to. Sure they'll get raises but their pay and benefits will never be comparable to what the 20+ year veterans have now. This pass contract they reduced the maximum number of vacation weeks for new hires to 4 weeks. Current employees get a maximum of 6 weeks. On the last contract they took away overtime for working over 32 hours during a holiday week. That applies to people who were hired after the contract was ratified. Current employees at the time of ratification still only have to work 32 hours during a holiday week before getting overtime. I bet the next thing they'll take away is holiday pay for certain holidays. They'll probably take away Memorial Day and either New Year's Day or Thanksgiving. Then, they'll start staying open on Christmas Day and all the newer people will have to work. With every contract, new hires get fewer and fewer benefits and therefore reasons to stick around.
Memorial day pay is already gone in the Atlanta contract.
