As some of you may know I work in the deli. Honestly we need 5-6 people a day, not counting our chicken person, to run it efficiently, but were lucky to get 4. 2 in the morning and 1 in the afternoon and 1 in for a 5 hour shift in the evening, though sometimes the evening person gets a 7 or 8 hour shift. Well tomorrow We have 3 not counting the chicken person. Thats 3 from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. On a Friday and we are a busy store.
We were supposed to have a new person start tomorrow but they never showed up for their computer training and management never bothered to replace those shifts. We've lost 2 people in the last month and not one person has been hired to replace them.
And Saturday our schedule is even better. Not counting the chicken person, we originally had only 3 scheduled from 7-10. Me at 7 a.m., next guy at 8:30 and leaving at 5, and our closer working from 4:30 -10. Luckily our manager generously "allowed" 5 hours overtime so one of the low seniority minimum wage people in the deli can work from 8-2 so the original guy scheduled after me can help close. And all they say is we haven't got the hours and no one is allowed overtime unless approved by the zone manager.
Anyone else having this kind of trouble at your store? I mean were hiring new people all the time for the front end, and I don't know half the people up there anymore. Yet they don't hire anyone in the deli and were shorthanded and still expected to go up front when it gets busy!
YES I work in the bakery and it's about graduation time. We get one person to work the open and one to work the close. We are LUCKY if we get a mid. "we don't have hours waah waah wahh" But our sales are through the roof. It's a bunch of Bologna!!!!!!!!!!!
There is just no time!!! You can't do ****, you got 10 cakes to pump out empty tables, case that needs filled.. customers at our store order last minute cakes ALLLLL of the time..
Any given weekend we can do 20+ cakes, and 8+ of them are orders we took that day!!
-- Edited by Darling on Thursday 29th of May 2014 10:17:54 PM
You can thank the idiots who came up with E-Schedule for all that. E-Schedule schedules people according to sales. But where do those sales occur? At the front end. In the other departments, and especially the bakery, the workers need to be scheduled earlier so they have time to actually prepare the items and get them out on the sales floor before peak sales. Our bakers start baking at 5:00 AM , but the bagger isn't scheduled until six hours later. The bread just sits there several hours drying out and losing shelf life. There's often bread left to be bagged late in the afternoon close to 5:00 PM when it really should all be bagged before 1:00 PM.
Our deli has issues too. They always schedule more people for the closing shifts than the dayshifts which is weird because usually around 5pm is when we start to taper off and then there's 4 of us standing around, whereas there was only 2 people working during the busiest hours. Also, they don't schedule NEARLY enough people for the weekend. We get slammed and have tons of trays to make and sandwiches to make and again, we only have two people, and if one person is assigned to sandwiches then the other person is doing the brunt of the customer work. Our deli has a rule where no one needs to come over and help you on the counter unless there are 3 people in line. So you could have two people in line and you finish with one and the next person walks up, and then you finish the next customer and another walks up etc. You could end up doing a long chain of customers with no help from anyone else.
Deli is not supposed to be going up front, why can't managers understand that!
But yes it's the same here too, one of my coworkers has basically been banned from getting more than 28 hours because she would have a tendency to stay 15 minutes over here and there to get her job done. Well they were worried about her getting status 3 and we all know that employees getting proper hours would just be a shame to them.
Our sales have increased a lot from last year and do we get more hours? Of course not.
eschedule's a mess. they are pushing hard on that 90% fifteen minute rating.
sales are up and what did they do? they slashed hours 10%
the new contract was the old contract without spousal coverage and higher premiums. way to go union!
it's ridiculous. they keep squeezing us to do more, more, more and yelling, threatening.
we were already not green up front even with making elms.
no one was getting over 20 hours even old timers and supervisors. now some aren't even getting the contract minimum hours. we can't add hours, we can't roll hours and the union does nothing.
and with all that they expect us to be mindlessly happy and highly satisfy customers? it's CRAP. i would never suggest anyone work there except during school or as a summer job.
eschedule's a mess. they are pushing hard on that 90% fifteen minute rating.
sales are up and what did they do? they slashed hours 10%
the new contract was the old contract without spousal coverage and higher premiums. way to go union!
it's ridiculous. they keep squeezing us to do more, more, more and yelling, threatening.
we were already not green up front even with making elms.
no one was getting over 20 hours even old timers and supervisors. now some aren't even getting the contract minimum hours. we can't add hours, we can't roll hours and the union does nothing.
and with all that they expect us to be mindlessly happy and highly satisfy customers? it's CRAP. i would never suggest anyone work there except during school or as a summer job.
I have seen my hours go up and down so it doesnt surprise me anymore. Most of the time i am stocking by myself so i get what i can done yet there is just no way everything can be finished no matter how quick you are. Its been said before i do what i can and let the rest slide because it is not worth stressing yourself out over!
