how damn hard is it to get us grocery help? Our managers have no problem making sure the other depts have bodies. Not us. Meat shop has had around 4-5 new guys this summer. We haven't had a new hire in grocery all year that I can think of. If someone calls in sick we literally don't have anyone who can replace those hours. Quite often we have to use a front end person just to use the hours we're allowed (everyone who can work 40, has 40 and those in school work as many as they can). That's a bit ridiculous, isn't grocery quite possibly the most important dept in the grocery store? The store could still operate if the produce or deli shut down, but if the grocery dept shut down, what would they have?
I get that this place sucks and nobody wants to work for pennies anymore, but damn. A new hire comes in, sees what we have to put up with and says f-this. That alone makes me think we should be given priority to new hires. Instead they get handed off to meat dept and deli. Those recent hires have been decent workers who would've helped us tremendously. IF we do get anyone, I'm sure we'll spend a lot of time training them (by throwing them to the wolves) only to have them go "I'll just go flip burgers"
Grocery isn't seen as a priority because its not a Service Department, you can do the stocking at any time. Every stores is simply stealing from Paul to pay Harry......AT SOME POINT PAUL is going to go NUTS
We can thank our union that makes the job undesirable due to the fact they offer their employees ten cents above minimum wage. They short staff so much to the point where it makes the job unbearable and miserable. They expect one person to do about five different individual jobs so we have about 50 job duties to do. I've been with the company for almost 10 years and I transferred away from a store for security reasons. Customers were getting difficult/pissy to deal with due the short staffing. The sin of greed and vanity were making them more than unbearable to deal with. To the point of miserable.
