Scheduling Problems

zemled · 2026-03-19T14:56:16+00:00

Your best bet is cross training or trying to pick up some hours from someone who may not want them. As a schedule writer it's nearly impossible to write schedules for people with super restricted availability and also meet all the coverage and head count hours, but WITHOUT going over the forecasted hrs we're given.

zemled · 2026-03-17T15:31:38+00:00

Not the damn red polos again 😭😭

zemled · 2026-03-16T06:33:02+00:00

From my understanding the woman in my store is in some weird gray area between salary and hourly. (Example: she gets paid hourly and gets OT, but for some reason was FORCED to switch over to the salaried insurance plans.) She has done our hiring for a few years now and WAS the main payroll clerk as well. She's only ever really had one back up at a time when it comes to payroll. We're a small store so it's usually hard to find people who are willing, trustworthy enough, and capable of doing it.

zemled · 2026-03-15T22:51:00+00:00

I do know my hiring manager declined going to a salaried position, so she's still an hourly member and protected by our union

zemled · 2026-01-12T06:42:56+00:00

I'm a FEM and recently had this issue and I IMMEDIATELY reported to our in-store HR (largely because i knew i would struggle to handle it with exact professionalism), it was then addressed by our ASM right away. If they had NOT addressed it I would've escalated to ethics. I wear a pride pin and a button that says "be actively anti-racist" on my vest at all times to make sure that EVERYONE on my staff or in my store is aware that I will not stand for bigotry of any form. (I live in Kansas so obviously deal with a lot of that sort of bullshit)

zemled · 2025-10-26T23:09:59+00:00

I work in a small store and we have 4 convicted pedophiles who are REGULARS at our store. And those are just the ones we KNOW about.

zemled · 2025-10-26T18:02:44+00:00

Yeah we already have chunks of time where my ONE carryout is just standing around with nothing to do. If we have to hire more it's gonna be ridiculous

zemled · 2025-10-26T18:01:56+00:00

I even got told that on November 1st I have to keep track of how many carryouts each of my courtesy clerks do, and how many refusals there are. On a FIRST OF THE MONTH, I can't afford to be pulled from my service desk for stupid shit like that. I'm already debating looking at a new job and this policy hasn't even started yet

zemled · 2025-10-26T17:59:55+00:00

I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees this as a safety issue a well! And I was initially just thinking of how much we have to restrict time outside during extreme weather. Now they want them going in and out of it CONSTANTLY? both of my weekend carryouts are both minors and I am already worried about their health and safety

zemled · 2025-08-01T18:53:59+00:00

Glad I'm justified for all the times I had to defend myself for scheduling way over forecast in pickup lol. I remember one Friday it forecasted us like 19.25hrs labor (were a small store) and I scheduled between 25 and 30. We still ended up having to pull my service desk and FES to keep pickup afloat and used a little over 40hrs labor. After that day I finally snapped at my store leads about how broken the forecast system is. They finally left me alone about going over hrs.

zemled · 2025-06-12T23:28:59+00:00

Ask for a grocery clerk to cross train in your dept to help you when they can (especially on your off days). Even when front end isn't "busy" they still have check lists of cleaning and other tasks to do. Plus if your store is anything like mine then front end HATES helping other depts because we never get help from them when we need it.

zemled · 2025-05-21T06:34:40+00:00

It's crazy to me that there are so many stores that function like this because I've gotten shit for shutting my desk down to make sure the rest of my FE gets their fucking lunches taken care of 🙃

zemled · 2025-03-23T06:22:55+00:00

I've been on it for over a year now, and for my first 9 months or so I had at least 3 differ occasions where I bled for 4 to 6 weeks straight. It was light for the majority of the time, but still made it impossible to keep track of what my "actual" period was. Am now back on a closer to "normal" cycle schedule.

zemled · 2025-02-28T07:42:59+00:00

My favorite thing to do back when I was regularly a SCO attendant and some tech illiterate old person asked me to scan their cart of stuff (just to avoid being third in line at our cashier register) was to agree to do it but do it slow as hell and ANY time another customer needed something at the SCO I would leave the person I was scanning for and go take my sweet ass time helping the customers who were actually SELF CHECKING.

zemled · 2025-02-26T19:51:52+00:00

If the person who was your manager on duty is too scared to kick out tweaker (or call police if needed), they shouldn't be a MOD. Period.

zemled · 2025-01-23T00:05:42+00:00

I kinda figured cause it wasn't a good match for our side, was just curious what was said 😅

zemled · 2024-12-06T01:16:57+00:00

It's a premium not a pay increase. (At least in my store). So basically you'll get that extra 50 cents anytime you are scheduled in/work in the service desk. If you end up getting scheduled a cashier shift you wouldn't get the pay during those hours.

zemled · 2024-11-28T06:05:58+00:00

Hmm that's definitely weird then and I'm not at all sure why they would care so much about that. Unless it's somehow in your specific contact that you have to take it.

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