The past few months at the Store have not been kind to the cashiers/grocery clerks. Out of the lot of us;
* One has called out every day for over 2 months due to a back injury, and should be on medical LOA, but for some reason they keep scheduling him 40 hours a week (including PIC shifts) and act surprised when he doesn't show up
* One is on medical LOA for a knee replacement
* One has a broken arm and can't check
* One has a torn ACL and can barely walk
* One is having arthritic flare-ups and can't check or lift anything heavy
* One is pregnant and can't lift anything heavy
* One just got canned for excessive absenteeism
* One quit to work for a competitor
* One is getting sent to Texas to help out at a Location that's apparently screwed a lot worse than we are
* One just went on medical LOA for mental health issues (possibly caused by all the extra workload being shunted onto him by all of this)
In order to fully staff the grocery department, we need four people on any given day. We currently have two able-bodied people trained on grocery. One is me. The other one is on vacation right now.
We have replaced all these losses, so I'm told, by hiring one cashier, who I've not yet seen and may not exist, because it seems like out of every ten cashiers the manager interviews, nine of them can't pass a UA. I'm getting scheduled six-day workweeks right now. I just had a day off after ten days straight on, and now I'm starting an 11-day run. I'm stuck on a 3:30-midnight shift I've repeatedly asked not to be scheduled for, because I don't have a car and the bus doesn't run that late, meaning I've got to either beg a coworker for a ride, pay $20 for Uber, or walk for two hours late at night to get home. It's even gotten to the point that they're having to give me cashier shifts and put the assistant manager on the grocery floor because there aren't enough bodies to go around. I was a cashier today, Memorial, Day - which, between my topped-out pay rate, OT, and holiday bonuses, means I was getting paid nearly five times what a newbie cashier would be getting paid to work that position, so not only are we overworking people, we're not even doing it in a way that makes good fiscal sense. Meanwhile, we're throwing cashiers who aren't trained onto the grocery floor and acting surprised when they don't get the work done, because they haven't been trained on what the job is or how to do it, and are constantly getting called to the front to check on top of it.
I love this job and I have no intention of going anywhere, but unless we can get staffed properly, I'm going to wind up being the next one who gets worked to death and ends up on leave.
* One has called out every day for over 2 months due to a back injury, and should be on medical LOA, but for some reason they keep scheduling him 40 hours a week (including PIC shifts) and act surprised when he doesn't show up
* One is on medical LOA for a knee replacement
* One has a broken arm and can't check
* One has a torn ACL and can barely walk
* One is having arthritic flare-ups and can't check or lift anything heavy
* One is pregnant and can't lift anything heavy
* One just got canned for excessive absenteeism
* One quit to work for a competitor
* One is getting sent to Texas to help out at a Location that's apparently screwed a lot worse than we are
* One just went on medical LOA for mental health issues (possibly caused by all the extra workload being shunted onto him by all of this)
In order to fully staff the grocery department, we need four people on any given day. We currently have two able-bodied people trained on grocery. One is me. The other one is on vacation right now.
We have replaced all these losses, so I'm told, by hiring one cashier, who I've not yet seen and may not exist, because it seems like out of every ten cashiers the manager interviews, nine of them can't pass a UA. I'm getting scheduled six-day workweeks right now. I just had a day off after ten days straight on, and now I'm starting an 11-day run. I'm stuck on a 3:30-midnight shift I've repeatedly asked not to be scheduled for, because I don't have a car and the bus doesn't run that late, meaning I've got to either beg a coworker for a ride, pay $20 for Uber, or walk for two hours late at night to get home. It's even gotten to the point that they're having to give me cashier shifts and put the assistant manager on the grocery floor because there aren't enough bodies to go around. I was a cashier today, Memorial, Day - which, between my topped-out pay rate, OT, and holiday bonuses, means I was getting paid nearly five times what a newbie cashier would be getting paid to work that position, so not only are we overworking people, we're not even doing it in a way that makes good fiscal sense. Meanwhile, we're throwing cashiers who aren't trained onto the grocery floor and acting surprised when they don't get the work done, because they haven't been trained on what the job is or how to do it, and are constantly getting called to the front to check on top of it.
I love this job and I have no intention of going anywhere, but unless we can get staffed properly, I'm going to wind up being the next one who gets worked to death and ends up on leave.
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