So my store, like the other stores, have been reduced to below little to no staff. One person is forced to shoulder the workload of five people. Everyone knows what the smart solution is. Stop cutting hours and staff the departments adequately.
But the morons, I mean management, had another less-than-dim idea. Offer overtime to the already overworked, overstressed, and overwhelmed people. Wow. Just wow. To quote Moe Howard: Any other bright ideas, chowder heads?
I didn't, or won't, stay over. I did my 8 and 1/2 and clocked out when it was time to go. If they're going to keep short-staffing, then I refuse to work myself to death.
The morons, I mean management, can get all huffy and try whatever deal, but nothing will work since the hole has already been dug too deep. I won't jump in but I'll stand at the edge and watch for anyone else stupid enough to.
It is not that they won't hire anyone at my store. It is that they are unable to get anyone to apply. Other companies are paying better start pay down the street.
They are trying to hire using the triage method. Send new hires to the departments in the worst shape.
Had a department head tell me that I have more people than the other departments so that is why I am last on the list to get more people. If they want the job done well everyday, I need 5 more people.
Now, it has been suggested that I force people to stay an hour overtime. Sure piss the people that are left off and leave me with less people when they quit.
In reality, they need to look at the weekly tasks that can be eliminated. I understand the company wants to drive sales, but why are there so many prices changes weekly? Shouldn't most non-sales items be able to keep the same price for a few months? Why are items on sale, then off sale over and over again.... The company want to reinvent the wheel, but doesn't understand some of the spokes can easily be fixed with little changes.
It is not that they won't hire anyone at my store. It is that they are unable to get anyone to apply. Other companies are paying better start pay down the street.
They are trying to hire using the triage method. Send new hires to the departments in the worst shape.
Had a department head tell me that I have more people than the other departments so that is why I am last on the list to get more people. If they want the job done well everyday, I need 5 more people.
Now, it has been suggested that I force people to stay an hour overtime. Sure piss the people that are left off and leave me with less people when they quit.
OP here. Not only is my store hiring but we also have enough people. The problem is that the morons, I mean management, are shuffling people around. I've talked to some people in other departments and they told me that nothing can be done because of this. And now they try to make us stay over as a result? No. Just no.
Part of the problem is the lack of a standard in hiring. Yes, you have to give someone a change, but it seems some manager hired just a "body"...which then make decent people from thinking twice about putting in an application. Also, maybe instead of hiring someone to work in "Deli" they just hire someone to work in the "Fresh Food" Department. When someone is hired to work in a specific department, they get upset if they are asked to help somewhere else.
Does anyone else think its funny how they will offer OT all the time, instead of just hiring another person? Yes, there is a hiring issue now, but wouldn't be cheaper to just have an extra person in general? Also, they worry about the ELMS hours/wages, but don't care about the costs for hiring in general? Yes, they were trying to work on retention, but maybe the they should look at the 1st step in hiring process. How do other retailers seem to have decent staff, but our stores seems to have at times questionable people (don't show up, seem to not do anything).
I thought it was just my store. Maybe it is a new pilot program!
The managers are shuffling people from one department to another. Clicklist person moved to meat department. Clicklist person moved to Frozen. Clicklist person moved to Dairy. Grocery clerk moved to GM. etc.
I thought it was just my store. Maybe it is a new pilot program!
The managers are shuffling people from one department to another. Clicklist person moved to meat department. Clicklist person moved to Frozen. Clicklist person moved to Dairy. Grocery clerk moved to GM. etc.
OP here again. It's not people from one department being moved to another. It's shifts being moved around. Overnighters being put on days. One bagger with the utility person instead of two baggers with the utility person. And so forth.
And they are so afraid to pay an extra person, that they schedule the bare minimum, and then when one of my loser coworkers calls in "sick," there's not enough people left.
Yeah, not working myself to death for the sub-par pay. Not working extra. I already do my part.
Most of us are on the verge of quitting. Some already have.
My store is getting bad to the point where people do less than a half @$$ed job. Everyone is miserable, over worked and under appreciated. Even though we've hired people they refuse to give us the extra hours to compensate for it. We have 8 registers but only one maybe two are open. That second one is if we need to call a back up assist to cover the rush and that's it. We might get lucky and have a short 4 hr shift to cover prime time but that's it.
Does anyone else think its funny how they will offer OT all the time, instead of just hiring another person? Yes, there is a hiring issue now, but wouldn't be cheaper to just have an extra person in general? Also, they worry about the ELMS hours/wages, but don't care about the costs for hiring in general? Yes, they were trying to work on retention, but maybe the they should look at the 1st step in hiring process. How do other retailers seem to have decent staff, but our stores seems to have at times questionable people (don't show up, seem to not do anything).
That's the undying truth. And of course the hours get cut. Although mine hasn't been, thankfully, I still feel for the other departments that are.
And to add more irony, the customers blame the employees. It's my fault that you have to wait an hour for us to bring out your groceries, because i'm incompetent and lazy. (This is what the customers think.) Nah, it has nothing to do with the fact that there are only 3 people working in my department so your groceries are still on the shelves, but greedy Kroger just keeps taking orders.
It's a sweet plan for Kroger though. Pay less people. Some call in sick, and then make the rest pick up the slack, because Kroger expects the same results with zero bodies working.
They are already behind when I get there and im told to "pick up the pace"?! Pfft. eff you.
And, in most universes, customers would get mad enough to stop showing up and the problem would be self-correcting, but no, not Kroger's crackhead customers. (Food is a drug - their drug) They just keep waiting outside for an hour for us to bring their groceries out, and they bitch and complain, but they'll be back next week... They could have already come inside and bought their groceries and left by now, but no...
If these greedy crackheads can afford so many groceries that we can't even keep the shelves empty, the prices are too low. Hence our low wages. Giving all the benefit to the customers and zero care for us.
My store is hiring, they just cant get people. Shuffling people around to the most behind departments is a common thing, until their department suffers too.
OT is pretty much available to anyone who wants it. Only a handful take it, most others are too tired or just dont want it.
we seem to hire anyone who can fog a mirror put up to their face. theyre not trainable or they quit right off the bat. Even with the new pay in local 1996, $12 hr isnt helping. As a dept head I try to provide training and management rewrite my schedules for coverage but if these people cant get trained properly just having a body there if a waste of resources and fundamentally stupid. I miss hiring my own people or at least being part of the interviewing.
The verbal and physical abuse by management and coworkers has eased up over time. Clearly we should find other work. To hell with this company.
Yall should. The managers dept heads are pure garbage. Their lazy abusive cant even properly do their jobs and just shift blame on others. Recently this manager named Tanya got chased around the store by another chick who stocked. She just kept harping on her like every day it seemed finally she got fed up pulled out that box cutter and I heard her say Ima slice a bitch. After the chase ended she threw that cutter down and walked out. I have another incident recorded on my phone with the manager arguing with the employee about why he didnt put this on he correct aisle. lol their both old it was funny as hell to hear them insult each other.
I miss hiring my own people or at least being part of the interviewing. 
