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Can a customer 1st manager send an employee from a department home for not doing checkstand? Has anyone been sent home for that?



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Anonymous

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Sure, they can pretend to be someone's boss who doesn't work the front end. They send my employees home though and I'm writing their a$$ up. 



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Anonymous

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most contracts you get paid your whole shift if you get sent home make sure to buy a 6 pack of beer on the way out and them them thanks



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How does sending home a produce clerk, for example, help the front end's staffing problem? If I got sent home for something that trivial I wouldn't bother coming back.



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I feel sorry for you OP. This is why I hate Que-Vision so much, at my store I always see the produce and floral clerks more times on the register than actually working their departments, then they get scolded for having their departments a mess . All because our super paranoid front end supervisors freak out at the first sight of two people in line.  So yeah I don't blame you for ignoring the 1+1 calls to come up to cashier. 



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I feel sorry for you OP. This is why I hate Que-Vision so much, at my store I always see the produce and floral clerks more times on the register than actually working their departments, then they get scolded for having their departments a mess . All because our super paranoid front end supervisors freak out at the first sight of two people in line.  So yeah I don't blame you for ignoring the 1+1 calls to come up to cashier. 

 Lol  We have one FES in our store that will get on the intercom in a breathless, panicky manner... calling every CC and trained cashier in the store by name, and one at a time, to the front end when things get sticky. 

You'd swear the store was on fire.



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Turd Ferguson wrote:

 Lol  We have one FES in our store that will get on the intercom in a breathless, panicky manner... calling every CC and trained cashier in the store by name, and one at a time, to the front end when things get sticky. 

You'd swear the store was on fire.

 

That's exactly how it is at my store too. We've even have customers that complain on the surveys, saying that they wont shut up with the constant paging of people.

But they don't care, they still go on a paging rampage.  



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Can a customer 1st manager send an employee from a department home for not doing checkstand? Has anyone been sent home for that?

 Yes, the can send you home.  After they follow the procedure outlined in your union contract.  Verbal warning, written warnings and the suspension.  Let them try it.  I would learn my contract if I were you and quote it verbatim to the manager who tries to bully you.



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No they cant. It had to be a member of management.

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Verbal warning, written warnings and the suspension.  Let them try it.  I would learn my contract if I were you and quote it verbatim to the manager who tries to bully you.

Knowledge is power.



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Anonymous wrote:

I feel sorry for you OP. This is why I hate Que-Vision so much, at my store I always see the produce and floral clerks more times on the register than actually working their departments, then they get scolded for having their departments a mess . All because our super paranoid front end supervisors freak out at the first sight of two people in line.  So yeah I don't blame you for ignoring the 1+1 calls to come up to cashier. 

 This sounds spot on like my store. Me and another produce clerk got pull aside by a manager complaining that the floor wasn't "fresh enough." We told her we can either run register or do the floor, not both. One night I was scheduled to close at 9 and at 8:30 I got called up and was up there until 8:53. I told the front end manager (or whatever there called) that I HAD to go because I had a department to close. I was threatened with a write up. I was too mad to care and went back to my department. Next day I learned that they cannot give write ups.

Most of the front office would rather check their super urgent emails and call up relief help, instead of doing their job.(sarcasm intended) 



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Anonymous

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One good thing about being in Non-Foods, they can't call us up.

Not to ring, anyway. Still get called up anytime someone needs help with a cell phone or wants a price check, but I can live with that. I ran register sometimes before they changed it, and I had only ever had one day's worth of training up there, so that was not fun.

If it's not the job you were hired to do, you shouldn't have to do it.



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It'd be great to learn my union contract, if there was any way to gain access to it.  The only copy in my store is in a locked cabinet with just the cover sheet showing.  If you ask for it - sorry no copies.  It isn't available even on the union website.



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Anony wrote:

It'd be great to learn my union contract, if there was any way to gain access to it.  The only copy in my store is in a locked cabinet with just the cover sheet showing.  If you ask for it - sorry no copies.  It isn't available even on the union website.

 

Have you asked the union for a copy?

 

Right to Copies of Collective Bargaining Agreements

(29 U.S.C. 414)

SEC. 104. It shall be the duty of the secretary or corresponding principal officer of each labor organization, in the case of a local labor organization, to forward a copy of each collective bargaining agreement made by such labor organization with any employer to any employee who requests such a copy and whose rights as such employee are directly affected by such agreement . . .   -- https://www.uniondemocracy.org/Legal/lmrdatext.htm



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Just cashier to the point where it doesn't interfere with your department.  You're not a cashier.

I remember a tweaker we used to have in one of the departments.  He was terrible with money, and one time he almost picked a fight with a customer.  They didn't call him back up after that.

I have asked the union for a copy of the contract once before.

They told me to my face that it was for union members only, and that I would have to join the union to get one.



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