this is my first and probably my last post. i've worked in clicklist as an attendant (sometimes i select), which, if you didn't know, involves being outside much of the day: we pick groceries for customers who place their orders online and we deliver them to their car in the parking lot and load them. upper management wants this process to take less than five minutes, but it almost always doesn't. i live in the south and it's getting to be hot as hell. baggers can wear shorts, and i am outside well more often than a bagger. i asked our store's manager three times if i could wear shorts and he did try to find out if i could; not sure who we talked to but he was on the phone possibly with delta hr? anyway he couldn't give me a straight answer (i am not blaming him for this)
i figured i'd go ahead and wear shorts today and see what happened. 30 minutes in, my department manager says the store's hr manager says i can't wear shorts. an assistant manager later corners me to make sure i know i can't wear shorts, and he says that baggers are outside longer than i am -- that's a lie -- and that memphis hr took five years to approve baggers to wear shorts. at this point, i'm putting in a 2-week notice tomorrow, and i'm sad about it because i like the job, but the heat is too oppressive. i am going to text the store manager, who happens to be the only manager there who doesn't treat me like ****, tomorrow even though he's on vacation. unless he can pull off some sudden policy change... i know enough by now that kroger is in no hurry to make things happen; for example, online pay for clicklist was on the agenda since february, and it took me over a month and a half to get uniform pants. i worked two days there in march before they fired me due to incomplete background check and i came back after aggressively trying to get my job back
the company just doesn't care. i had to fight to get my breaks on time or at all when i started. a manager actually implied that i was being lazy after i picked for 6+ hours with no break
the level of unprofessionalism is absurd. i have more positive survey comments than anyone else in clicklist and possibly in the store and i come to work on time and on off days*
sorry for my rant and i know the information i provided makes me identifiable but i don't frankly care. for minimum wage, i can find a company that doesn't create a hostile work environment and ignore potentially hazardous conditions
*i wouldn't have to come in on off days if management did not keep cutting our hours (leaving us short-handed)
[i am not paying union dues and do not plan to take action with the union or against the company. if i get around to it in the afternoon i'll call corporate but do not expect it to amount to anything.]
Instaclick has entered the Lex, KY market recently. Groceries chosen from stores of your choice delivered to your door for like ten bucks a month. Been nice knowing you all...lol
Why not ask to be scheduled strictly as a Selector? That's all I'm scheduled as because that's what I prefer to do and my ClickList supervisor is totally cool with that. I live in the South too, and I know, it's definitely heating up and it won't be long before we're in the 100s. My ClickList supervisor makes sure that there is always cold bottled water available for everyone and also encourages Attendants to go into the cooler to cool down, but I know that it's still hard to be out in that heat so much (I used to be a courtesy clerk some years back and yeah, that summer heat is brutal).
my availability is afternoon-evening only, and there's not a lot of selecting to do unless we're behind. when we're behind, since i get the most positive feedback, all the supervisors want me attending. today, i was the only attendant for 3 hours; it was so hot when i got there, i had moisture all over my body (you could literally see it). thankfully it rained but we were so behind there were 8 cars at a time in the parking lot and the phones went down -- i cant stand it
because our osat scores have gone down, we can only be scheduled so many hours as a department. when we're scheduled fewer hours we end up behind. i'm giving it until the store manager gets back from vacation before i put in a 2 week, and if he says there's nothing they can do then i will be leaving
there are baggers that are wearing cargo shorts (NOT regulation), and one of them made fun of me because they wouldn't let me wear shorts, in front of another customer. i don't make a habit of snitching, but i will definitely do what i can to get him or my store in ttrouble
Didn't have to Google it. I have gray hair, so I know their biz model failed because society and the economy were much different 15 years ago. Both our Redboxes are relics now because of firestick etc. Our clickers at 779 Are being pimped out to dairy lmao
my availability is afternoon-evening only, and there's not a lot of selecting to do unless we're behind. when we're behind, since i get the most positive feedback, all the supervisors want me attending. today, i was the only attendant for 3 hours; it was so hot when i got there, i had moisture all over my body (you could literally see it). thankfully it rained but we were so behind there were 8 cars at a time in the parking lot and the phones went down -- i cant stand it
because our osat scores have gone down, we can only be scheduled so many hours as a department. when we're scheduled fewer hours we end up behind. i'm giving it until the store manager gets back from vacation before i put in a 2 week, and if he says there's nothing they can do then i will be leaving
there are baggers that are wearing cargo shorts (NOT regulation), and one of them made fun of me because they wouldn't let me wear shorts, in front of another customer. i don't make a habit of snitching, but i will definitely do what i can to get him or my store in ttrouble
Ah, I see. Yeah, if your availability is limited to afternoon/evening, I can see how you would do more attending than selecting. I honestly don't know if the Attendants at my store are permitted to wear shorts or not since I transferred to ClickList during the winter months, but if they aren't allowed to, that's just stupid... especially since courtesy clerks are allowed to. I really don't know what to tell you. Attending seems hectic and stressful enough without the summer heat in play, but factor that in, and I'd probably be looking elsewhere, too. I guess just be open and honest (as well as respectful) to your store manager and see what he says.
this is my first and probably my last post. i've worked in clicklist as an attendant (sometimes i select), which, if you didn't know, involves being outside much of the day: we pick groceries for customers who place their orders online and we deliver them to their car in the parking lot and load them. upper management wants this process to take less than five minutes, but it almost always doesn't. i live in the south and it's getting to be hot as hell. baggers can wear shorts, and i am outside well more often than a bagger. i asked our store's manager three times if i could wear shorts and he did try to find out if i could; not sure who we talked to but he was on the phone possibly with delta hr? anyway he couldn't give me a straight answer (i am not blaming him for this)
i figured i'd go ahead and wear shorts today and see what happened. 30 minutes in, my department manager says the store's hr manager says i can't wear shorts. an assistant manager later corners me to make sure i know i can't wear shorts, and he says that baggers are outside longer than i am -- that's a lie -- and that memphis hr took five years to approve baggers to wear shorts. at this point, i'm putting in a 2-week notice tomorrow, and i'm sad about it because i like the job, but the heat is too oppressive. i am going to text the store manager, who happens to be the only manager there who doesn't treat me like ****, tomorrow even though he's on vacation. unless he can pull off some sudden policy change... i know enough by now that kroger is in no hurry to make things happen; for example, online pay for clicklist was on the agenda since february, and it took me over a month and a half to get uniform pants. i worked two days there in march before they fired me due to incomplete background check and i came back after aggressively trying to get my job back
the company just doesn't care. i had to fight to get my breaks on time or at all when i started. a manager actually implied that i was being lazy after i picked for 6+ hours with no break
the level of unprofessionalism is absurd. i have more positive survey comments than anyone else in clicklist and possibly in the store and i come to work on time and on off days*
sorry for my rant and i know the information i provided makes me identifiable but i don't frankly care. for minimum wage, i can find a company that doesn't create a hostile work environment and ignore potentially hazardous conditions
*i wouldn't have to come in on off days if management did not keep cutting our hours (leaving us short-handed)
[i am not paying union dues and do not plan to take action with the union or against the company. if i get around to it in the afternoon i'll call corporate but do not expect it to amount to anything.]
Oh, you poor thing. That must be awful. Just tell management you're too delicate to go outside during the summer months wearing long pants. By the way, when I was a bagger, we didn't have the option of wearing shorts.
in so many words, yeah that's what im going to say. what is with the sarcastic attitude? it's not just having to wear pants, it's having to wear BLACK pants, when the weather is fast approaching 100 degrees. when at the same time, baggers who spend less time outside than i get to wear shorts. and the only thing preventing me from wearing them is a stupid regulatory thing. you can denigrate me all you want, but facing the potentiality of a heat stroke over contrived bull**** is not worth minimum wage; this company will have to affect a policy change or continue having a high department turnover rate
