I worked at kroger for a long time and being a grocery clerk, always got yanked around (always worked weekends, nights, holidays --always). Nowadays, with companies having trouble keeping people it almost feels as though you can be picky about where you work within the store. Every dept at my store is shorthanded and going into the holidays, it's going to get stupid. Want days? tell them you want to work clicklist. Hell it almost feels like you can get whatever you want these days! Of course, they'll screw the overnight grocery crew (as usual) by not allowing them to transfer to another dept and work days.
No. As far as corporations go, Kroger seems to be pretty stupid and whose success is mostly through previous marketplace inertia.
If anything, competent employees are forever trapped. Bad employees are transferred between departments like a hot potato to avoid the spectre of union involvement.
These days, the only full time positions these days are lead/management.
In which case, yes, they would seriously would rather hire ANYONE ELSE than promote anyone competent.
Because that means having to replace a competent person... who is willing to work within a dollar or two of minimum wage.
But who is part time only. With a random schedule. Who doesn't need to pay rent. Because rent has increased by half the last couple years.
That's not a lot of folk.
If anything, now is the time the union has showed themselves as useless as they truly are.
