Hey guys I know we all work with a "WTF how did you get promoted" boss but have any of you ever worked for someone that was fired and if so, why?Just making conversation?
Store manager is kinda dodgy, but the co-managers are something else. The one who looks over Grocery, he's wound so ****ing tight I guarantee he'll have a heart attack at Kroger some day. Every time he comes in, he'll bother me in Dairy about filling holes filling holes filling holes. There could be 3 holes in the whole department and I could have those items on my table top and he'd still bother the **** out of me for it. Few weeks ago he calls me upstairs to talk about getting a better markdown effectiveness percentage. So obviously I'm trying to do markdowns more now. He comes around the corner one morning starts flipping his **** about too many holes. So I stop doing markdowns to work on filling up holes. Next week, shows me the markdown effectiveness number again says I need to get it better blah blah blah. I rolled my eyes and walked away. Last week, 4 day sale on kroger yogurt and cheese (yogurt was a whopping 2 cents cheaper). Last week of the month, nobody has money or EBT. This mother****er goes behind me and orders 2 pallets of cheese and a pallet and a half of yogurt. It was a 1000 piece truck (comparable to a grocery truck), and I normally order 250-350 pieces. Couldn't take 1 step inside my cooler. He does the same thing for grocery and frozen, when a customer calls requesting like 30 cans of green beans, he'll do the math and figure out how many cases he needs and then basically multiplies it by 4 or 5 and adds it to the order. ****ing hate that guy. ****. If there is anything positive I can say about they guy, he will get some work done. Store manager and other co-manager are content to sit upstairs in the office all day.
The other co-manager over perishable depts, she doesn't give a ****. She cares more about OSAT and organizing store bowling nights and **** than managing the store. When the grocery manager was on vacation, she went to the backup one morning and reminded him to do his crew sheet for the day. He replied "I don't have time for that ****" and she shrugged and says ok. Key Retailing check comes around and we miss the question for crew sheets and fail by a few points. Store manager gets on grocery manager about it like it's his fault (he was on vacation).
Sorry for the long reply, I just needed to get that off my chest.
Luckily most of the store directors (thats what they call em in freddie's land) i've known are fairly decent. Some more nitpicky than others, but most appreciate your hard work. The food managers, assistants, 3rds, etc. those are usually the more tightly wound ones.
What I dont really understand is the FILL UP HOLES sort of requests. Naturally, in a grocery store, our job is to stock the department, whatever department that may be. According to Wave 5 standards, you work your backstock, work your load, then perform backstock scan. Obviously, you'd have to devote kind of a set time to do it (I do mine after lunch. Mornings i will fill any hole in my self serve area if I know I have the product or it came on the load and is easily accessible. But since theres a procedure, you need to allocate the time, I have a 16ft display case to set before any of that!) right.
Occasionally one of the afformentioned managers will ask WHY IS (whatever) EMPTY? or FILL THOSE HOLES. Well no I was just planning on leaving that space empty. Either I am out of stock (rare), the warehouse is out of stock and therefore not my problem (usual when theres a total hole, 0 BOH situation), or I haven't performed the proper stocking procedure and can't just wander off and break the frozen load to accomodate one empty hole. It will get filled, magically, without any prompting! Since its my job! Imagine that.
Lately a lot of that has gone away, however. Your tightly-wound manager should be waiting for you to complete your load (and never should override your orders, thats not his job! Too many cooks in the kitchen!), and then awaitng the daily pre-primetime review sheet. Then he could come to you and say "Hey Tillamook vanilla yogurt cups says you have 24 but shelf is out, check it out thanks" and move on. But many of the store management types are condescending and cant seem to trust you even for a second to do your job, they just assume you're a 80-IQ'd idiot and need someone to tell you to do your basic job functions. Kinda infuriating.
almost impossible for store managers to get outright fired, kroger covers for them too well. normally, they do bad, they get shipped off to a "bad' store, to suffer for a while, as punshment.
Now cos, yeah, they get canned daily, seen several of them go, normally for dishonesty.
management, of all levels, rob kroger blind, yet we always get told, it's employee level that do all the stealing.
We have a co manager who used to be a store manager for Kroger. The guy is an abominable prick, absolutely the worst control monster you can imagine. He bosses around fellow co managers----and for reasons I'll never fathom, they TAKE it. We're on our fourth store manager since he's been in the game, and they have ALL hated him. And the way he talks to hourly associates is embarrassing; completely speaks down to them like they're retarded children. He has tried at least four times in the past eight years to get his own store, and it never happens, and it never will, and he's the only one who can't see that.
As for incompetence? He once showed up early on a Sunday morning when our regional was visiting....and he was three sheets to the wind. We had to converge on him and get his wife to come pick him up.
Nope: He is not a glowing endorsement for upper management~
We had a store manager who got demoted to co-manager and sent to another store...she wouldn't deal with problems in the store so they shipped her off to finish out her days. In contrast we also had someone who worked in the office who was investigated for theft and somehow made it into management...go figure!
Ive got a guy who got demoted to co manger at my store. The guys a complete asshat. Ive seen him lock people out the back door for smoking. Not a word. Just locked them out. Hes also completely condescending. Then our other co manger just deserves it. She has left the store with thousands sitting out in the booth. She micro manages like mad and has us do the stupidest most pointless stuff. She will give you a list of stuff to do and then ask you what you are doing an hour later. She just has no idea what she is doing. Im just glad all of our store managers know better than to order stuff. Its strictly forbidden. They need something ordered they talk to the department manager. I feel for atlantadiv.
no you dont need a college degree. there is this store manager in cincinnati that started out as a bagger and worked his way up to be a store manager. his name is kieth eve and he didnt get a college degree. he is pretty cool and a desent manager. drives a little red corvette.
