I dont mind that I work weekends but it seems like only front end at my store the full timers have to work weekends so I think its unfair I have seniority and FT status and still have to work nights while all the minors take the weekend off so I have been requesting Saturday and sundays off except the first and holidays weeks the worst thing they can do is say no.
I'm off on weekends by seniority and availability. I use to go to church every Sunday but stopped going a while ago. As far as Kroger knows, I still go every Sunday. They have NO reason to know I stopped going. And they are not going to know either.
Its only recently that the Hiring of Part Timers with weekends off, before it was expressly stated and expected that everyone works weekends in every interview. Full Timers getting every weekend off was something that should have been changed long ago, but could only be changed with PT having to work. I know I had one conversation with an associates who wanted weekends off, I basically told them, I'm just going to schedule everyone and not allow anyone off PERIOD. People think Seniority entitles them to everything they want, nope it entitles you to perks...but job expectations are still expectations.
I've been full time for over 20 years. I don't work on the front end and the only time I ever or have ever gotten a weekend off is when I'm on vacation. With one or two exceptions, the same is true for every full time person in my department.
It all depends on your store and how the Department Head wrote the schedule, I never allowed someone to be unavailable on weekends. But that changed with the process of HR hiring anyone with any availability just to get some bodies hired.
why are full timers off EVERY weekend? this leaves our store short handed and Nobody in charge . Does every Kroger store have this Issue?
Definitely something going on at your store. As the full timers at my store still work the weekends (I for sure haven't missed a weekend as a part-timer or as a full-timer now).
However, last week I heard the pastry chef and one of the college girls talking about a similar topic. And the college girl said that she had heard that if you worked for 20 years at our store. The full timers no longer have to work the weekends. Not sure how true that is, but who knows.
There isn't any company policy, but technically if a FT associate requests every weekend off, you can not deny the request unless everyone else is scheduled under them. If you do deny the request, they could file a grievance because they have seniority over the less FT/PT associates. If you have been around 20 year you most likely already know what you can/cant do, stores have become more and more laxed in union rules/policies.
If everyone took a turn, no one should have to work every weekend. Unless, of course, they are only available weekends.
I totally agree with this. As it annoys me to no end when some folks at my store and even in my dept. at times monopolize the weekends by putting it into their availability to have those days off all the time. But then you hear some of them bragging about not having to deal with the Sunday rush if they work in deli. Or in bakery how the other college chick is doing this or that on her Sundays off. And it's like "dude, don't you think I'd like to enjoy my Saturday or Sunday too?" At most I'll get lucky to have a Friday or Saturday off here and there. But not always, as they want me in time for the following weekend. Which is so ugh.
I have always worked weekends. i have 31 years with Kroger but it took me over twenty years to finally get weekends off. It is not right that part timers is getting weekends off. I am not surprised that part timers does not get the day shift and management tries to make full timers work nights. I always had to work my way up the seniority ladder and it is not going to hurt part timers to work their way up the ladder like everybody else did.
Your completely right about PT people needing to work night/weekends, but you also forget that the job market have completely turned upside down. For the amount of pay and work a new associate has to do, they could be making more and doing less somewhere else. The only real perk Kroger has going for them is the flexibility in shifts.
There isn't any company policy, but technically if a FT associate requests every weekend off, you can not deny the request unless everyone else is scheduled under them. If you do deny the request, they could file a grievance because they have seniority over the less FT/PT associates. If you have been around 20 year you most likely already know what you can/cant do, stores have become more and more laxed in union rules/policies.
Not sure if she was there for 20 years or not. But definitely reminds me of the previous back up cake decorator we had(before we hired and lost the younger girl that had briefly replaced her). She was was always taking this or that day off on the random when her schedule wouldn't go the way she wanted. But never quite too many days for them to justify in firing her. But thankfully she left on her own.
I never get weekends off. My department head will try and take every sunday off and does his 1 weekend off a month. When i request it gets repeatedly denied. He also told me when I go on vacation i can forget about requesting the sunday after because its not gonna happen.
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