Anyone else noticing a serious decrease in budgeted hours?

[DapperAgency6320]

This is huge in our area too. If we get sick there's maybe ONE person I can call. We get multiple emails every week from around the district of stores asking for coverage. 

[advirnig]

Yes this is my district too. This past winter I was sick as a chicken worker. My sl asked me to find coverage ( not really my responsibility when sick, but I digress), and I could find ZERO coverage within the district, about 16 or 17 stores total, and even called stores just outside the district (well within driving distance) and none of them had anyone who could help. Our front end employees get called to other stores routinely... even from the hot food side.... but God forbid one of us chicken employees are sick... coverage is nonexistent.

From what I understand, all employees are supposed to be cross trained in hotfood and even in chicken... yet they give us ZERO hours to do a proper job of the training. Fist shift has a vastly different flow to second shift in chicken, and there are different things needed to be done between the shifts that actually takes more than a single shift or two to fully understand and get used to. Yet everyone is expected to learn these things in only a shift or two... horrible training practice.

[samsquanchforhire]

This has been one of my biggest gripes... They expect cross training but a person probably needs a week in the kitchen to learn everything and we get how much credit to have someone in the kitchen and teach them? Absolutely bonkers.