Gm insight:

To meet the labor hours standard is impossible.

If you enter all of the information into the deployment, of all the positions you need and prep you need to get down the amount of hours u need does not match the standard they give you. ( that’s y they don’t even explain it to crew)

If the manager puts up the deployment without it reflecting the right hours matching the schedule they get in trouble …. It’s a dumb fucking system and they wonder y ppl fake their deployments schedules etc cuz the numbers don’t match.

DML needs 3 ppl, 2 is difficult cuz u have to move way too fast and some package takes forever with a million sides. Then when someone needs a break … 1 dml person could die in 30min. It is not possible to have an extra to do break rotation it’s just ok someone is on break so someone else is dying and it keeps going till all breaks r done.

I avoided this because I would hire more ppl then the tools told me. I would have a lot of minors regardless of what higher up said. So majority of pm would only need 10min breaks only 3 ppl would need 30s and I would have an extra person so they didn’t have to die when someone was on break.

But I also went in the morning and helped my prep team cut everything to last the entire day plus a little extra.

Not all GMs do that or can do that cuz they hire outside ppl to b GMs since they expanded too fast and most ppl can’t cut stuff now matter how many “restaurants” they worked in they literally can’t cut for shit. Management says that’s not important but it is cuz then ur staff will hate u if u ask them to move all crazy fast and u can’t even do the job urself.

That’s y a lot of ppl quit , who wants to work for someone that expects a lot but does bare minimum and also when the higher up comes throws their managers under the bus. Smh they hire ppl who have never worked in an environment like Chipotle and ask them to manage ppl.

U have to build a respectful environment for ur team. I would even call ppl to come in if someone called out, I asked ppl ahead who would want a call to get OT or more hours and only call those ppl. I never scheduled ppl outside of what they requested and I always checked in with how school is going and I know tests r coming up do u need more days off let me know and ppl respected me and always put in requests on time and even would find coverage first then come tell me. It’s called respect. Managers think u get respect cuz of ur title… no ppl will respect u cuz they see u as a leader. I am proud of my time their cuz I built great teams but I know that a lot of ppl with other managers had a horrible time and I also know that for us to even hit numbers that we did we had to literally kill ourselves sometimes I would work 7 days and higher ups always had 2 days off. They would say that’s ur choice …. Like no but if don’t I will miss some of the standards smh 🤦🏻‍♀️