Anyone from Mid Atlantic getting the visits yet from the new President and entourage. Thought with the recent firings it might just be a goodwill type of visit. You know with the holidays just a meet and greet and we value you crap type of visit. It is more of a look at everything and everything that is wrong with the stores. We were told after the firings that there wouldn't be so many people from above visiting but sure hasn't slowed down yet. If the new president would give us more hours than maybe we could get everything done. If Kroger would quit auto shipping us so much stuff we don't want or need maybe we would have some space in our back room and it wouldn't be so jammed with product.
Just want to know if anyone has had their visit and how bad you think the new president of Mid Atlantic will be.
With less District Staff, visits might be more limited, but I'm sure they will be more "hard hitting". The companies mindset is everything is controllable by a STR Manager that is holding their people accountable. If the store staff isn't up to standards, eliminate the employees. The problem with that thinking, it how are you going to find new employees if your not having a good work-life balance, bad hours, no hours, low pay in this low unemployment job market?
Our visit was awful. We are a very busy marketplace and they went nuts about our backroom. I also heard it was the same from other stores. I'm starting to think they are getting the SM targets ready for next round of firings so some GO people can take their jobs and SM's can be demoted down to ASM's. More corporate people in the stores won't that be wonderful.
On another note, one of the business unit coordinators who stepped down to SM also had a horrible visit. It was kind of nice to know that someone who used to come in and tell us everything we were doing wrong got yelled at by someone.
Our visit was awful. We are a very busy marketplace and they went nuts about our backroom. I also heard it was the same from other stores. I'm starting to think they are getting the SM targets ready for next round of firings so some GO people can take their jobs and SM's can be demoted down to ASM's. More corporate people in the stores won't that be wonderful.
On another note, one of the business unit coordinators who stepped down to SM also had a horrible visit. It was kind of nice to know that someone who used to come in and tell us everything we were doing wrong got yelled at by someone.
GO people will never go back into the stores, a large majority of GO people have never worked in the stores. The VRO that occurred 3 year ago, eliminate a majority of the people that had store experience at GO. I bet so many "Fired" STM Managers are getting a kick out of the new STM Managers not doing any better then they did. How is changing one person have the ability to solve hiring issues, understaffing, unobtainable expectations, etc.
Yea. Quiet here lately. Not sorry. Don't want to see them unless it is in a police line-up. Please spread the word. Warn others. I don't want this company to ever hire anyone else.
My new store manager, while a very nice guy, isn't having any better luck on the hiring front and store conditions front than our previous manager who they fired.
Our sales are up, and he's big on in stock, but we're still just as stressed and under staffed as ever. We simply can't get good people to interview in this town.
My new store manager, while a very nice guy, isn't having any better luck on the hiring front and store conditions front than our previous manager who they fired. Our sales are up, and he's big on in stock, but we're still just as stressed and under staffed as ever. We simply can't get good people to interview in this town.
It's generally company wide - same way in Nashville. Kroger has destroyed it's rep over years of abusing it's workers and creating a climate/atmosphere that only desperate or deceived ppl would sign on to. (the ones deceived don't stay long) So what's left? Skeleton crews.. who are worked more and more while OT is cut more and more, with more and more ppl being burned out and writing all those bad reviews which eventually leads to no workers...and the SM and ASM's along with a few dept heads are left to do all the work, working 8 days a week..until they die.. lol..
On the positive side of things - we do now have Krojis, which should start to turn things around very soon...
Our visit was awful. We are a very busy marketplace and they went nuts about our backroom. I also heard it was the same from other stores. I'm starting to think they are getting the SM targets ready for next round of firings so some GO people can take their jobs and SM's can be demoted down to ASM's. More corporate people in the stores won't that be wonderful.
On another note, one of the business unit coordinators who stepped down to SM also had a horrible visit. It was kind of nice to know that someone who used to come in and tell us everything we were doing wrong got yelled at by someone.
Exactly - they would come in take pictures and complain about how SM were not doing this or that right - and now they are SM failing. We have them in our district to - can't run a store - but were good at telling others how to.
My new store manager, while a very nice guy, isn't having any better luck on the hiring front and store conditions front than our previous manager who they fired. Our sales are up, and he's big on in stock, but we're still just as stressed and under staffed as ever. We simply can't get good people to interview in this town.
That's because it's not a SM issue many times... It won't matter who the DM or VP fires and blames or uses as a scapegoat - Often the DM wants even more than perfection because that's what his VP wants and both are trying to save their own jobs while blaming SMs -THE DM and VP's are more to blame and trying to protect their jobs for as long as they can - What they should be doing is going up the chain and complaining about the over all toxic atmosphere that exists in the stores for years that Kroger polices and greed have lead to (more work slave!, less pay, less OT, less time off if you want to keep your job) that has hurt the ability to hire and keep good workers as well as a combination of company destroying polices..
