The union really can't do anything for you. Sadly they can get away with delegating their tasks to you. You can't refuse either due to the fact that depending on how humane your supervisorsare the might get you on insubordination. Welcome to kroger where are people are great, yet all we do is treat them like crap.
The union really can't do anything for you. Sadly they can get away with delegating their tasks to you. You can't refuse either due to the fact that depending on how humane your supervisorsare the might get you on insubordination. Welcome to kroger where are people are great, yet all we do is treat them like crap.
Are you sure? There is something in our contract where if you do the department head job for 7 days you get the department head pay. Something like that.
Here you would get the department head pay or back up pay if you were covering for vacation or if they were off longer than 3 days not including their regularly scheduled days off. They can delegate their tasks to employees. We had this conversation with our union rep a few months ago. One person was pissed because he had to write a few orders on the back ups days off and they basically said you could refuse but they could get you for insubordination if they wanted to.
Changing endcaps is fun. Learn how to pull up the sales plan, shipper lists, etc.
If you are being asked to run main aisles and change endcaps on the same day each week, then that is wrong. Changing all endcaps could easily take entire shift. You should ask your store manager about that.
Ordering and changing endcaps is good experience for you if you want to be a manager.
You won't get the back-up pay here unless you are in charge for the entire week.
You should ask the union steward if you can turn down the job of ordering. At the store I used to work at, everyone ordered their own aisles. I remember the night manager saying that he can't force anyone to order if they do not want to.
4 years ago, I was the 2nd back-up on nights. The manager and the back-up would take nights off and vacations together. That would leave me in charge. Today, I am the night manager in that store. They answer to me now. They were and still are the biggest slackers.
The union really can't do anything for you. Sadly they can get away with delegating their tasks to you. You can't refuse either due to the fact that depending on how humane your supervisorsare the might get you on insubordination. Welcome to kroger where are people are great, yet all we do is treat them like crap.
Are you sure? There is something in our contract where if you do the department head job for 7 days you get the department head pay. Something like that.
That's only if you're actually scheduled as the one in charge. Like if they're on vacation or sick leave. We used to have a department head who made a coworker of mine do her inventory every single time, she'd request it off. They let her get away with it. And she didn't get paid dept. head pay for doing it.
The company cheats its associates, and this no-compensation-for-duties thing is one of the ways.
Number twos in dairy and frozen do everything the lead does at least two days/nights a week in my store, yet there is no compensation beyond their single-digit, clerk wages.
A 100-billion-dollar-a-year company ought to be embarrassed.