What the hell is wrong with this company that it can't staff it's stores? It refuses to pay competitive wages so that we can hire decent help? Then the reliable workers are forced into six, seven days a week of work with seventy + hours.
I'm losing my mind and they can't even find someone to run my ****ing breaks or give me two days off a week. Then I get yelled at for this overtime, but yelled at if the work doesn't get done.
What the hell is wrong with this company that it can't staff it's stores? It refuses to pay competitive wages so that we can hire decent help? Then the reliable workers are forced into six, seven days a week of work with seventy + hours.
I'm losing my mind and they can't even find someone to run my ****ing breaks or give me two days off a week. Then I get yelled at for this overtime, but yelled at if the work doesn't get done.
Kroger is about to Walmart out.Building too many stores and dont give the proper hours to establish them.People are already getting pissed and it just builds up after time. The name will ruin itself because of k-mart style greed. Brands never learn
I wish that was the situation, we get yelled at for even 15 minutes of overtime.
Oh I get yelled at but like I said I get yelled at if the work doesn't get done. I'm a department head. So. I basically choose to **** my department or work over, my ass gets chewed either way.
Kroger is about to Walmart out.Building too many stores and dont give the proper hours to establish them.People are already getting pissed and it just builds up after time. The name will ruin itself because of k-mart style greed. Brands never learn
What I can't figure out is how come the world is largely unaware of how kroger operates and yet walmart has such negative views to the public. Kroger is doing just as much shady abusive stuff as Wal-Mart is.
Kroger is about to Walmart out.Building too many stores and dont give the proper hours to establish them.People are already getting pissed and it just builds up after time. The name will ruin itself because of k-mart style greed. Brands never learn
What I can't figure out is how come the world is largely unaware of how kroger operates and yet walmart has such negative views to the public. Kroger is doing just as much shady abusive stuff as Wal-Mart is.
.......and K-Mart was doing the same thing before all this. The O.G.s of this game. Butcha know who the real culprits in the crime are? C U S T O M E R S. Long as they keep supporting this trend, longer it'll keep happening.
In the deli I work in and now the back up, we are told that the hours aren't there get us anymore help. I'll open at 7 and not have any help until 9. A chicken person comes in at 10 and most days we won't have a 3rd person until 3-3:30. And several days during the week the second one in leaves at 2. All this and now were expected to keep the steam table and hot sandwiches out by 10:30. It gets better I have to make orders and do markdowns and wait on customers and some days it gets busy before 9 a.m., or during the gap between when the second one in leaves and the next one comes in.
One time I came in on my day off to pick up a few things and found we had bare minimal help. Try
A morning checker at 6 am. Next checker at 9:30 am, next checker at 1 pm, and 2 more at 3 and 4 pm. We can call outer depts to come and check as needed if they know how to work a register, and that's if they even show up to
Check.
Yeah, and then the outer departments don't get anything done, because they spend half their shift on register. You do get faster checkout when the customers can't find half their items. And it's not even the FE's fault because they're just as understaffed as the rest of the departments.
Last night I closed and when I left, I was talking to one of the deli employees and I asked her why she was working so late, she said that with someone on vacation, having 15 years in the company doesn't matter when they don't have enough people.
I don't mind working late a couple nights a week but it's true in every department. They had no choice but to give me 6 day overtime last week when one person called in sick. We are stretched so thin in the bakery that one person calling off means we have no one left to call in. And also just a few days ago one of our highest seniority produce people had to work a split shift and come back in at 6 at night for four hours because someone called off. Kind of pathetic that there were no other part timers to call in for produce.
Yeah, and then the outer departments don't get anything done, because they spend half their shift on register. You do get faster checkout when the customers can't find half their items. And it's not even the FE's fault because they're just as understaffed as the rest of the departments.
Last night I closed and when I left, I was talking to one of the deli employees and I asked her why she was working so late, she said that with someone on vacation, having 15 years in the company doesn't matter when they don't have enough people.
I don't mind working late a couple nights a week but it's true in every department. They had no choice but to give me 6 day overtime last week when one person called in sick. We are stretched so thin in the bakery that one person calling off means we have no one left to call in. And also just a few days ago one of our highest seniority produce people had to work a split shift and come back in at 6 at night for four hours because someone called off. Kind of pathetic that there were no other part timers to call in for produce.
Our contract doesn't allow split shifts. What's bad is they keep trying to hire new help but they're not giving us anymore hours.
It's getting ridiculous at my store. On the front end, we pretty much dip from 3:00 pm all the way to 7:00 pm. One manager stepped down, and they aren't going to replace her, so things really get retarded. On a bad day, if you need a manager, it might even be 20 minutes since they are all on the registers. One of the other managers even got a urinary tract infection, reportedly from not even having time for restroom breaks.
Things are about the same in the other departments. Grocery really got hit hard and now the front end is required to do a lot of their work in the evening. It's probably grievable, but they are all looking for better jobs instead. For a while, we had angry notes by the time clock threatening write-ups for quarter punches or overtime, so work just stopped getting done. Customers are beginning to complain about empty shelves on the surveys.
I absolutely love walking around the register to bag groceries. The courtesy clerks are either underscheduled or hiding from abusive management, so the cashiers spend a lot of time bagging. I get to watch the lines back up, and if the order is large enough, Que-vision will dip just from my lane alone. It's lovely.
This whole thread mirrors exactly what is screwing walmart right now and why they are teetering on the edge of disaster. Walmart is right now what I call the 1995 Kmart, cuz that was about the time K was on the edge and things might have gone the other way for them.
This is what happens when greed blinds a company to the very things that made it successful: service your customer and retain your employees.
Yeah, and then the outer departments don't get anything done, because they spend half their shift on register. You do get faster checkout when the customers can't find half their items. And it's not even the FE's fault because they're just as understaffed as the rest of the departments.
Last night I closed and when I left, I was talking to one of the deli employees and I asked her why she was working so late, she said that with someone on vacation, having 15 years in the company doesn't matter when they don't have enough people.
I don't mind working late a couple nights a week but it's true in every department. They had no choice but to give me 6 day overtime last week when one person called in sick. We are stretched so thin in the bakery that one person calling off means we have no one left to call in. And also just a few days ago one of our highest seniority produce people had to work a split shift and come back in at 6 at night for four hours because someone called off. Kind of pathetic that there were no other part timers to call in for produce.
Our contract doesn't allow split shifts. What's bad is they keep trying to hire new help but they're not giving us anymore hours.
I'm pretty sure our contract doesn't like them either, because it says that you get paid time and a half for all the hours in between the shifts. But that just proves how desperate for help their department was.
