Does everyone else's store tell you not to complete your regular duties to work another shifts load? I have acquiesced when it comes to throwing last nights grocery load when I come in at 2:30pm, this does leave a lot of my tasks not done like replenishing shelves in grocery. It really bothers me when it comes to the code date list as the system seems to overwrite the dates for the products that need to be pulled, it assumes the task was done and updates to the next date out. This leads to out of date product sitting in grocery for months as the next date out is so far. From top of management down to everyone else I work with they do not seem to care if the code date list gets done, usually this is not a problem as I have been taking care of it for years, but now it's gotten to the point where they need me to do other shifts work so much that I am being asked to look the other way when the out of date product/mark downs are being left on the shelf.
I have tried ethics point portal before, both times I got little to no response, the second time I used it it was clear the person answering the ethics problems, I was trying to point out was actively working to hide them. They made no attempt to communicate about the problems I brought up and specifically would not respond to the problems when I pointed out they are clearly not addressing the specific issues id mention. I mean they would literally ignore the question, " What should I do as an associate when management asks me not to do my scheduled task and ignores and makes no attempt to cover the tasks I was suppose to do? " ( code date list is included in this list and was one of many specific examples in my ethics point ticket). I asked this multiple times in our correspondence and they would not address the question. I even brought up that this will result in things like the code date list not being done and out of date product being left on the shelf. To my understanding the tickets where being forwarded to the district level? as they personally knew the manager I was complaining about doing this, they proceeded to email the messages I wrote to them and ignored the issues. I have not tried using the ethics phone number.
code dates don't just go away they carry over to the next day. my managers did this to me in grocery for about 3 days we average about 10 to 20 code dates a day they told me not to do them that they would do them. at the end i wound up doing 63 code dates.
plus I caught other people no doing code dates from the day before when i did them. for example the telxon would say mark down the 3rd but product would be dated the 2nd.
code dates don't just go away they carry over to the next day. my managers did this to me in grocery for about 3 days we average about 10 to 20 code dates a day they told me not to do them that they would do them. at the end i wound up doing 63 code dates.
plus I caught other people no doing code dates from the day before when i did them. for example the telxon would say mark down the 3rd but product would be dated the 2nd.
My experience is code dates for product that need to be marked down do just carry over to the next day, but the system updates the expiration date for product that needs to be pulled. In grocery this results in months between when a product was supposed to be pulled and the next time the product will show up in the generated list. for instance during my vacation no one was doing the code date list so I have been scanning out product that has been out of date on the shelf for months. In other words the dates being populated in the list now are the correct pull dates for the next date out, but since no one went through and pulled the items on the day for which the pull date matched the current date, some of it is sold to customers, but since grocery does not rotate a lot of it sits at the back of the shelf til the code date list is done and scanned out. This is just speculation but when the pull date matches the current date it does not just add 1 day to the pull date, it updates to the next expiration date for that product. where as yes the pull dates that are still out from the current date will just populate in the next days list.
Blow the whistle anonymously. That's a health violation.
Exactly. You need to pay attention to the code dates EVEN IF management says not to. Otherwise you will have out of date product on the shelf. We had one manager i was told, a while back tell us to ignore code dates, even went as far as to issue verbal SIR'S if we decided to "not listen." It wasnt until a customer pointed out to corporate about us having a product that was on the shelf with a pull date of 2013 still on the shelf in 2015.
Management was transferred, NOT FIRED, to another store.
And why on earth would you have to do another shift's work? Cant that do their own?
And why on earth would you have to do another shift's work? Cant that do their own?
Grocery is Grocery. Doesn't matter if it is morning, evening or night shift. Everyone is a clerk and runs stock if told to. Everyone has tasks to complete. But, getting stock off pallets and onto the shelf is priority. If it isn't on the shelf, the customers can't buy it. The computer thinks it is on the shelf and thinks the customers are buying it, thus the computer orders more. It is easy to get a few trucks behind if everyone slacks off. Yes, it puts everyone behind when people decide to call in but we have to choose priorities when it is out of our control and needs to be dealt with.
As for how, constant call ins and huge trucks plus Holidays bonus trucks. The night is rough when I am stuck trying to get everything done with the deadweight because 4 key people decide to call in.
I heard that code dates were kept track of in the meat/fresh departments. I didn't know grocery had implemented the specific dates into the system yet.
