I think I would go with meat cutter. From what I've read and heard, frozen department has been neglected lately when it comes to hours. If you take the job of backup, anything that doesn't get done will be blamed on you.
You have a freezer back up?!?! At my store, it's a constant, "yeah, we'll remind someone to stock that digital deal during the day for you," only for me to come in the next night to an empty shelf and the full pallet of **** I didn't order and that doesn't sell when normally-priced having not been touched.
Get on night crew. Like freezer, it's the best pay short of management (which you don't want to be a part of; not even night crew foreman), you're not one of a two-man team that makes sick days or large loads a nightmare, and there's no real responsibility to stress you out. Then proceed to live cheaply outside of work so you can save up and get out of this place.
You have a freezer back up?!?! At my store, it's a constant, "yeah, we'll remind someone to stock that digital deal during the day for you," only for me to come in the next night to an empty shelf and the full pallet of **** I didn't order and that doesn't sell when normally-priced having not been touched.
Get on night crew. Like freezer, it's the best pay short of management (which you don't want to be a part of; not even night crew foreman), you're not one of a two-man team that makes sick days or large loads a nightmare, and there's no real responsibility to stress you out. Then proceed to live cheaply outside of work so you can save up and get out of this place.
Some night crews are down to two people, maybe three a night because they cant get help. I would check that schedule to make sure yours isnt.
You have a freezer back up?!?! At my store, it's a constant, "yeah, we'll remind someone to stock that digital deal during the day for you," only for me to come in the next night to an empty shelf and the full pallet of **** I didn't order and that doesn't sell when normally-priced having not been touched.
Get on night crew. Like freezer, it's the best pay short of management (which you don't want to be a part of; not even night crew foreman), you're not one of a two-man team that makes sick days or large loads a nightmare, and there's no real responsibility to stress you out. Then proceed to live cheaply outside of work so you can save up and get out of this place.
Some night crews are down to two people, maybe three a night because they cant get help. I would check that schedule to make sure yours isnt.
I've been jumping around the various grocery sub-departments for six years now, across four stores, and night crew's never been that short on staff in my area. Pretty big population around here, though.
I should have put a "but" in there before "you're not one of a two-man team," to say to not go to freezer. It used to be a good job, but not anymore, the way this company's become. Freezer's guaranteed the small staff. It's like they think that because it's only three aisles it couldn't possibly be a big job, not taking into account that night crew's got a CAO person to take the time to order and build end displays, the receiver to take care of markdowns, and a foreman to scan out damaged. In freezer, that's all on you. You go in and organize the mess the freezer became during the day because meat, deli, Starbucks, and the Schwan's vendor are all lazy idiots, separate bakery and deli product from your load, work ice, work load, order, count and put away repack (while separating slow movers and setting those aside to be put onto that pallet once your repack day rolls around again... if you even have a repack day), scan out damaged and then wait for a manager to unlock the compactor because you can't be trusted to throw that stuff away, scan lows and holes (making sure to put the blue tags on the warehouse-outs), do exceptions, do that useless verifications list, organize distribution (is it just my area or has that gotten ridiculous these last few years?) and face. And if your store does four 10s instead of five 8s, you're working alone for all but one of your days - how are you supposed to train a new guy in a situation like that? And now Nestle's product is becoming ours to stock, which adds a bunch of new pizza and ice cream to the load.
They're both pretty bad this time of the year. I wouldn't advise anyone to switch departments this time of the year. It can be too overwhelming. Every department, except for maybe pharmacy, will experience a big increase in workload.
