Me and another guy are the only closers who seem to care about our bathrooms-the other closers who work when we are not there just don't clean them. How can we encourage everyone of our closing night people to do this? Usually when I come in the afternoon that is the first complaint I hear from a cashier and I know it drives our managers crazy! It's also a SAFETY issue too IMO.
Tell them people from the company are doing a walkthrough on third shift. That should light a fire under their asses lol. Or tattle and email the store manager anonymously if you are one of those ruthless types. I bet they would roll on you and pin it on you if the managers made it an issue anyways so best to let the real perps be known.
Me and another guy are the only closers who seem to care about our bathrooms-the other closers who work when we are not there just don't clean them. How can we encourage everyone of our closing night people to do this? Usually when I come in the afternoon that is the first complaint I hear from a cashier and I know it drives our managers crazy! It's also a SAFETY issue too IMO.
It must not be driving your managers crazy enough to do something about it... or they would. Your CSM and ACSM must not care enough to do something about it either. If the people in positions of power and in positions to do something about the problem aren't, why should you care and more importantly, what makes you, someone who is not in a position of power, think that you have any control over what others choose to do... or not do?
the bathrooms in my store are an abomination when i come in. paper towel all over the floor, full trashcan, filthy floor, and excrement on the toilets. twice in the past 2 weeks i've gone to the bathroom with one of the two toilets out of service because it was so clogged with toilet paper. another time i had to walk across the store to the employee bathroom because the customer bathroom reeked so badly of poop. it almost makes me want to stop what i'm doing and clean them the right way, because none of the closers seem to even bother.
-- Edited by nightcrewzombie on Thursday 15th of June 2017 06:38:02 AM
I think our restrooms get cleaned twice a day. As I know when I come in for my afternoon shifts there are folks cleaning the restrooms upstairs and in the back dock area. They might do it in the early morning too, not really sure.
My only problem with our restrooms is that our lights are never completely on in the ones upstairs. Or when you go in there, there is always something kind of strange going on. Like I wen in there before clocking in for one of my shifts and I at first thought it was a customer or somebody in there as she didn't have a name badge on or wasn't really dressed like some of the front end managers are. And chick was just flat ironing her hair like it was just natural. Sure it's nothing out of the ordinary if you are at HOME doing that.
Another time, I went into the restroom off of our Starbucks and across from the Deli. And there was just a chick in there wailing. I thought she was constipated and having a rough go of it. But good grief, I don't think I'll ever get those sounds out of my mind ever.
Our store is brand new, it's a big store with two floors and a bar, and the bathrooms are cleaned probably once a day, twice if lucky. Most of the times I go in there, it's kinda filthy.
Walking into our bathrooms is like into a hazardous zone. No, I take that back. Worse. 10x worse. We had excretement on the floor, on the toilets, not in, but on, paper towels on the floor, in toilets, soaked with water and tossed on ceiling to dry, used tampons strewn about, loaded pants left on floor (not solid waste), vomit in sink, and semen dripping from walls and on abandoned girlie magazines
It gets so bad sometimes you can have a "conversation" with the stuff left behind depending how bad it is.
Then that's when they should be made to take responsibility for their actions. If someone does their job for them then they will expect it all the time.
Is there any way someone can write an open letter to the President of Kroger and get him to read these comments on how bad many of his local Kroger's bathrooms are, in REAL LIFE??? Or start a video on Youtube or a meme on Facebook and hopefully it can end up with millions of views???? Where is the outrage? Doesn't anyone care?
Do Kroger corporate bigwigs enjoy knowing their bathrooms are sometimes comparable to third-world porn shop toilets? The Kroger corporate offices in Louisville (when I was there) were the ultimate in cleanliness, swankiness, lots of wall to wall carpet, clean clean clean hallways and restrooms. Obviously lots of money spent on the CORPORATE employees, a whole different world from the actual STORES that the ordinary public comes in contact with.
Some of the reason for such nasty bathrooms is druggies. People so high on meth or coke or heroin or something, they have no conception of how nasty and disgusting they are. Or half-drunk people coming in late at night (after barhopping or to go on a quick beer run for their party). Or "baby daddies" with no real responsibilities (because their ho's don't demand responsibility but instead have "married" the US government for their monthly welfare checks) coming in for their beer and cigarettes, and to use the bathrooms while there, having never been taught how to clean up after themselves at a public toilet.
Walking into our bathrooms is like into a hazardous zone. No, I take that back. Worse. 10x worse. We had excretement on the floor, on the toilets, not in, but on, paper towels on the floor, in toilets, soaked with water and tossed on ceiling to dry, used tampons strewn about, loaded pants left on floor (not solid waste), vomit in sink, and semen dripping from walls and on abandoned girlie magazines It gets so bad sometimes you can have a "conversation" with the stuff left behind depending how bad it is.
I think you just made my skin crawl, like a helluva lot with that description. Hell the way those bathrooms sound, Joe's Apartment was a freaking well polished, and very well loved Temple to the Gods in comparison.
Is there any way someone can write an open letter to the President of Kroger and get him to read these comments on how bad many of his local Kroger's bathrooms are, in REAL LIFE??? Or start a video on Youtube or a meme on Facebook and hopefully it can end up with millions of views???? Where is the outrage? Doesn't anyone care?
Do Kroger corporate bigwigs enjoy knowing their bathrooms are sometimes comparable to third-world porn shop toilets? The Kroger corporate offices in Louisville (when I was there) were the ultimate in cleanliness, swankiness, lots of wall to wall carpet, clean clean clean hallways and restrooms. Obviously lots of money spent on the CORPORATE employees, a whole different world from the actual STORES that the ordinary public comes in contact with.
Some of the reason for such nasty bathrooms is druggies. People so high on meth or coke or heroin or something, they have no conception of how nasty and disgusting they are. Or half-drunk people coming in late at night (after barhopping or to go on a quick beer run for their party). Or "baby daddies" with no real responsibilities (because their ho's don't demand responsibility but instead have "married" the US government for their monthly welfare checks) coming in for their beer and cigarettes, and to use the bathrooms while there, having never been taught how to clean up after themselves at a public toilet.
Walking into our bathrooms is like into a hazardous zone. No, I take that back. Worse. 10x worse. We had excretement on the floor, on the toilets, not in, but on, paper towels on the floor, in toilets, soaked with water and tossed on ceiling to dry, used tampons strewn about, loaded pants left on floor (not solid waste), vomit in sink, and semen dripping from walls and on abandoned girlie magazines It gets so bad sometimes you can have a "conversation" with the stuff left behind depending how bad it is.
oh god, i'm so sorry you had to see that. i've seen just about everything under the sun, but i've never encountered the aftermath of someone rubbing one out.
When I was courtesy/helper the only time they got cleaned was in the morning for their deep clean. I got so harassed by others that nothing got cleaned after I left and some how magically expected it to be done. No one cared that this was a health code violation. They tried to punish me when all the paper work clearly showed I was doing my job. I didn't let them hear that one down.
