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besides being a bagger, those of us on the docks have it bad.  It's brutally hot in the summertime (no breeze) and frigid in the winter.  The heater in the ceiling works ok but as soon as someone opens the back door, any heat is gone and you're back to freezing.  Why can't they give us reasonable heat and a/c!?  

 

I remember several years ago they put doors between the back hall and the dock, as if it weren't hot/cold enough!



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Never. The docks aren't insulated. It's a concrete shell. Insulating and installing HVAC will cost Kroger money that they do not want to invest in employees.



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The company can't bother to maintain machines or keep emergency exits accessible; hard to imagine climate control being even on the radar.

 



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Never. The docks aren't insulated. It's a concrete shell. Insulating and installing HVAC will cost Kroger money that they do not want to invest in employees.


 This. It's why we have plastic flaps too between receiving and everything else.



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I should add that a lot of warehouses (not necessarily Kroger's, but any generic warehouse at an industrial park) are not climate-controlled. The best they'd have are giant fans mounted on the walls to serve as exhaust or to remove the hot air inside the warehouse. A dock at Kroger is a small-scale version. Why would a company waste all of the ceiling space for HVAC when they could use it to store more pallets?

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Never. The docks aren't insulated. It's a concrete shell. Insulating and installing HVAC will cost Kroger money that they do not want to invest in employees.


 this is true, BUT a more steady temperature would cause workers to work at a more stable/efficient pace.  Our manager's logic was "if it's hot, work faster so you can get off the dock quicker" Not exactly the most realistic of logic.  I've been pulling pallets out in the back hallway to sort them early of a morning (it's actually been really clean of late).  It gets well over 100degrees on the salvage trailer and I don't think it's much cooler on the dock! 



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I went through 4 bottles of water just breaking down the grocery truck last Friday because of how hot it was. Brutal.

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Never. The docks aren't insulated. It's a concrete shell. Insulating and installing HVAC will cost Kroger money that they do not want to invest in employees.


 this is true, BUT a more steady temperature would cause workers to work at a more stable/efficient pace.  Our manager's logic was "if it's hot, work faster so you can get off the dock quicker" Not exactly the most realistic of logic.  I've been pulling pallets out in the back hallway to sort them early of a morning (it's actually been really clean of late).  It gets well over 100degrees on the salvage trailer and I don't think it's much cooler on the dock! 


 Excluding the receiver, everyone else spends a small amount of time in our receiving. The vendors just take stuff straight to the floor and other departments drag pallets to their areas. 



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we have a nat gas heater on our back docks.  All stores I've been at do. 



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we have a nat gas heater on our back docks.  All stores I've been at do. 


 we have one up in the ceiling but like I said, as soon as someone opens any door, all warm air escapes and you're back to freezing.



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I went through 4 bottles of water just breaking down the grocery truck last Friday because of how hot it was. Brutal.




They still let you breakdown the truck?


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I went through 4 bottles of water just breaking down the grocery truck last Friday because of how hot it was. Brutal.



 


They still let you breakdown the truck?


 It's uh, impossible not to.   Nearly nothing is aisle ready,  you can't just have a free for all by putting a pallet out on the sales floor and have every aisle come and grab things lol. 



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I went through 4 bottles of water just breaking down the grocery truck last Friday because of how hot it was. Brutal.



 


They still let you breakdown the truck?


 It's uh, impossible not to.   Nearly nothing is aisle ready,  you can't just have a free for all by putting a pallet out on the sales floor and have every aisle come and grab things lol. 


 you have more than 1-2 people running a grocery truck on a given day? o.O

no we're not some tiny little store either.  But at my store they schedule 1 person to sort and run a kmp truck (~300 pieces).  The handy DDP tells them "it's only supposed to take 5 hours to run that"  yeah...ok...whatever.  I get gravy shifts for running it so I don't complain, but it's a lot of work without factoring in the exhaustion that takes place on a frigid or boiling hot dock before you even pull the first cart out



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^^^grocery trucks are larger than that, but they usually schedule 1-2 people and they'll be lucky if the bread guy finishes early and comes to help.  Then we'll have an afternoon/evening guy (typically 1:30-10 or 330-midnight) that is supposed to finish the truck, but his main priorities are filling displays and running soda.



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I went through 4 bottles of water just breaking down the grocery truck last Friday because of how hot it was. Brutal.



 


They still let you breakdown the truck?


 It's uh, impossible not to.   Nearly nothing is aisle ready,  you can't just have a free for all by putting a pallet out on the sales floor and have every aisle come and grab things lol. 


 you have more than 1-2 people running a grocery truck on a given day? o.O

no we're not some tiny little store either.  But at my store they schedule 1 person to sort and run a kmp truck (~300 pieces).  The handy DDP tells them "it's only supposed to take 5 hours to run that"  yeah...ok...whatever.  I get gravy shifts for running it so I don't complain, but it's a lot of work without factoring in the exhaustion that takes place on a frigid or boiling hot dock before you even pull the first cart out


 We only get 3 grocery trucks a week, each averages around 1500-2000 cases, peyton 3 trucks, each averages about 500-600.   Every night is a load night except for tuesday & sunday.   Monday being a double truck.   So yeah, we usually have 5-6 people a night working grocery.  That includes managerial duties as well like displays, ordering, shelf extenders, shippers, etc.

 

And we're a fairly small store.  Only 13 aisles and do about 520-530k a week in sales w/o fuel.



-- Edited by DeltaGrocery on Friday 31st of July 2015 10:20:06 PM

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