Cause there's a couple at my store that do. I'm ****ing 30, and I pull my weight. I'm not lazy. But they find trivial stuff to pick on me with. "Did you put this here?" "Did you forget to do that?" Stuff that even the supervisors don't care about. And most times they talk about me in the third person, like as if I'm not standing right there in front of them.
I want to tell them to shove that crap where it don't belong, but they're my coworkers and I don't want any friction.
Cause there's a couple at my store that do. I'm ****ing 30, and I pull my weight. I'm not lazy. But they find trivial stuff to pick on me with. "Did you put this here?" "Did you forget to do that?" Stuff that even the supervisors don't care about. And most times they talk about me in the third person, like as if I'm not standing right there in front of them.
I want to tell them to shove that crap where it don't belong, but they're my coworkers and I don't want any friction.
When they ask those questions just simply answer with a "Yes or No". When they are talking about you in third person just agree with them or reply with I. Lett them know you're not going to deal with their crap. If they are telling you how to do something that you already know how to do or interrupting you with customers, say to them "I got this, if I need your help I'll ask for it" I was told a few months ago by a Lead that I have to talk to my team as if they are 5 years old. I'm not talking to anyone like they're 5. You're going to have to let them know or they'll continue. Speak up!!!
When I first came to my current store (4 months or so within my Kroger employment) there was two of them that would kind of gang up on me and try to humiliate me in front of customers.
One of them was thankfully fired, for something that didn't involve me. With the remaining one I don't acknowledge their existence unless I'm in front of others or the job demands it. They return the favor, which I'm grateful for.
Thing is, I'm a cashier and so are they so we really don't have to work as a team, or encounter each other on the clock anyhow.
I would hate to have to work with a lifer in meat, or deli, or produce.
When I first came to my current store (4 months or so within my Kroger employment) there was two of them that would kind of gang up on me and try to humiliate me in front of customers.
One of them was thankfully fired, for something that didn't involve me. With the remaining one I don't acknowledge their existence unless I'm in front of others or the job demands it. They return the favor, which I'm grateful for.
Thing is, I'm a cashier and so are they so we really don't have to work as a team, or encounter each other on the clock anyhow.
I would hate to have to work with a lifer in meat, or deli, or produce.
No truer words have been spoken than this^. Although, I have no qualms with the older/senior workers in my deli part of the department. But in that bakery....oh my lord. Which is truly saying a lot, as I hardly ever have issues with anybody!
But some of the women and a few of the younger college chicks, I just want to throttle sometimes. As they often feel like they can "delegate" the greater majority of **** onto your shoulders. And then they can just be behind the counter and only go on the floor to touch up a few things. And also remind you that you need to do this or that better and pick up the pace cause they don't want to have to do a particular part of the job. And if that isn't bad enough they will add micro-managing to some of it too at times. And it's like are you kidding me? I'm already doing more than the lion's share of the work as is. And then you are going to ALSO come over and tell me I should be doing it this other way. Which, I'm not opposed to being told about or shown a quicker way. But don't act like I've deliberately chosen a way of doing something, just to piss you off, so you have to come over and take me by the hand and show me how to do it the "right" way. Like come on. I'm ****ing 30 years old as well. Don't have to lead me by the hand. And then afterward say, "Well everyone has their own approach to doing it". Like really?
I'm just glad that they don't act up with me in front of or with customers. But it really gets under my skin when they want me running all over the dept. While they hang back and gossip, cackle about their weekend, talk about other peeps and hang out in the office.
As for the "team" aspect there is none in bakery. I think more times than not I'm as much of a solo agent as you are as a cashier some days in bakery.
I've been at my store for nearly four years and I am full time so I guess I may be considered a lifer but the new people. I catch crap and newer people act as if I am mean or whatever but there is nothing more annoying than when people move at a snails pace and get next to nothing done. I can leave a list of work that needs to be done and maybe 2 things be done. It doesn't take 5 hours to box up the doughnuts and take trash and cardboard out. I have watched newer people get 5 items stocked in their 8 hour day.
I've had people tell me they didn't do the dishes because they weren't trained how to them. People not scrubbing floors cause they weren't trained to scrub floors. People refusing to take a cake or tray order because no one showed them how to write on a form.
So with all that being said, some lifers are jerks. But most of the lifers are tired of lazy workers not using common sense. It may not be you personally but lifers are constantly seeing people not doing half of what they are doing. Then they have management on their backs telling them make sure so and so does the part today.
I also wanted to add that the particular "lifer" profile we're all talking about is present in other jobs too, in particular menial ones.
At my last job (which was clothing retail) the department manager was the only worker in the store who was a lifer. Been with that company for 20 years. The assistant store manager was a 30-year-old guy, so he obviously wasn't with the company long. The store manager was middle aged but only with the company for 5 years.
The lifer department head, was the only member of that management I truly hated. I wasn't even in her department but she would practically breathe down my neck and complain about EVERYTHING, every minute of my shift.
Store manager and ASM on the other hand praised me constantly and were sad to see me go (I quit after 9 months partly do to the DH, but also a myriad of other reasons)
So I know my performance wasn't an issue. She just felt entitled to be the store manager or DM and wasn't, and took her bitterness out on others.
