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Hi, I have been here a while but this is my first OP post.

 

Yesterday one of the clicklist people asked me in passing if I had noticed that my hours had been cut over the last like ... 6 mos or so (basically since we got two new managers, one is here because she is a tyrant, and has been kicked out of every other store in her immediate area pretty much ... yay us evileye ). I am part time, and I know all they are required to give me is 16 hours a week, but I told her that I had noticed that in the beginning, when we had another group of managers that was awesome and fair, I was averaging 32 hours a week, and since the management shift, it has dwindled and she said she had noticed the same thing. 

 

Thing is, when i was first hired, me and the store manager that hired me sat down in his office and wrote out a schedule that would work for both him and I, and that is the schedule I have, it hasnt changed.

 

My question is, is anyone else dealing with this or is it just a problem at my store? 



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It has to do with the hiring needs and seniority in your specific store, along with your oersonal availability. Theyll schedule you 40 hours if you have an open availability and they need people. If they are fully staffed, though, and youre only available for 3 4 hour shifts and youre low on the totem poll, then that is why your hours got cut. If ELMS is full, theres not much the store can do.

I would find out for the person who makes your schedule if that is the case. If it is, you can request a transfer to another store whos clicklist (or any department) has the hours available to you. Or you could stay in your store and try to wait it out.

Thats what sucks about PT, its always a real possibility to get cut outside of your control.

However, if they are wrongly taking your hours, filing a greivance with your union is always a possibility for you. Make sure you double-check with your rep on the details of those kinds of rules in your division, Im not sure how they vary throughout the country.



-- Edited by GreyKnitHat on Wednesday 18th of April 2018 09:25:47 AM

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I am not clicklist, I am natural foods, the employee in clicklist just was curious if it was happening in my dept, too. I know that the full time employees get pretense over PT, I even requested to be moved to overnight because I liked that better, and they said no, that there werent hours overnight for any department? I kind of doubt that. I know all they are required to give me is 16 hours a week if I am PT.


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TheDragoness wrote:

I am not clicklist, I am natural foods, the employee in clicklist just was curious if it was happening in my dept, too. I know that the full time employees get pretense over PT, I even requested to be moved to overnight because I liked that better, and they said no, that there werent hours overnight for any department? I kind of doubt that. I know all they are required to give me is 16 hours a week if I am PT.


Sorry, I didnt know. :)

Does your store have an integrated nutrition dept? Hours are slowly getting picked away from Nutrition and being given to seperate depts if thats the case. (If your nutrition is not integrated, watch out for that.) Also, I know that clicklists hours are starting to be handled by the ELMS system, whereas before it was not. A lot of clicklist depts got cut BIGTIME, which is where that could be coming from. (Its also where the mandatory OT came from for them)

Also, ELMS hours are divided up every week by predicted sales of departments. This time of the year is quoteunquote dead because it is post easter and presummer/mothers day. That plays bigtime in overall sales of the stores, which cuts hours. My grocery department gets about 100 more hours a week simply because its november. Others may get 100 extra hours just for back to school simply cause they are by a college.



-- Edited by GreyKnitHat on Wednesday 18th of April 2018 09:57:22 AM

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GreyKnitHat wrote:
TheDragoness wrote:

I am not clicklist, I am natural foods, the employee in clicklist just was curious if it was happening in my dept, too. I know that the full time employees get pretense over PT, I even requested to be moved to overnight because I liked that better, and they said no, that there werent hours overnight for any department? I kind of doubt that. I know all they are required to give me is 16 hours a week if I am PT.


Sorry, I didnt know. :)

Does your store have an integrated nutrition dept? Hours are slowly getting picked away from Nutrition and being given to seperate depts if thats the case. (If your nutrition is not integrated, watch out for that.) Also, I know that clicklists hours are starting to be handled by the ELMS system, whereas before it was not. A lot of clicklist depts got cut BIGTIME, which is where that could be coming from. (Its also where the mandatory OT came from for them)

Also, ELMS hours are divided up every week by predicted sales of departments. This time of the year is quoteunquote dead because it is post easter and presummer/mothers day. That plays bigtime in overall sales of the stores, which cuts hours. My grocery department gets about 100 more hours a week simply because its november. Others may get 100 extra hours just for back to school simply cause they are by a college.



-- Edited by GreyKnitHat on Wednesday 18th of April 2018 09:57:22 AM


 Speaking of that, yes, our nutrition dept is due to be integrated into the rest of our store soon, we are just not sure when, after that, I am told (and I expect) that I will be moved back to grocery dept where I originally came from, with occasionally being put in nutrition.



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Clicklist is very order driven, which is predicted by past weekly averages. YES, you could have spots for 700 orders, but if you only average 300 you will only have staffing scheduled for 300 orders. I'm guessing with the introduction of Instant Cart, click list orders might have dropped.

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