S is our "team leader", and apparently is part of management. She's the supervisor who came from the front end where she's used to telling everyone what to do and when to do it....that's not how our grocery team works. The majority of us don't need to be babysat and resent being told what to do and how. (the key to our team is flexibility)
We had a "merching standards" meeting last week....essentially it consisted of S showing photos of "untidy" shelves and asking us what was wrong. We know all this stuff...the majority of what she was nitpicking either happened while someone was reorganizing something and happened to get pulled away for 30 seconds by an SC/CW, clearly a customer messed it up, or it was a result of a direct request from J to get stuff out of the warehouse which may have resulted in some products that we actually have filling in space from those that are OOS. S seems to prefer gaping holes on the shelves (that's why the shelf tags are removable, so we can shift them to reflect product on the shelf) as opposed to full shelves and stuff pushed out of the warehouse. 99% of customers probably don't care about the difference between spaghetti and spaghettini anyway...I can't even tell.
I'm not the only one annoyed by her antics; an informal poll says that 3/4 of the team doesn't like her particular brand of micromanaging.
Someone--probably A--has now "inspired" S to come up with and post a daily task list, to be initialed by whoever does it...A's predecessor tried that when we first opened and it lasted all of a month before our manager gave it a well-deserved burial.
I think what S is angling for is to see who's doing what they "should" be doing....the first iteration resulted in people quickly forgetting about the List and just initialing it so there would be an initial there. Sure, some of us are given specific tasks by J, but aside from that it's whoever gets to something first and typically one task=one person does not exist (save for donations, which only myself and R are ever allowed to do as we do it correctly).
We had a "merching standards" meeting last week....essentially it consisted of S showing photos of "untidy" shelves and asking us what was wrong. We know all this stuff...the majority of what she was nitpicking either happened while someone was reorganizing something and happened to get pulled away for 30 seconds by an SC/CW, clearly a customer messed it up, or it was a result of a direct request from J to get stuff out of the warehouse which may have resulted in some products that we actually have filling in space from those that are OOS. S seems to prefer gaping holes on the shelves (that's why the shelf tags are removable, so we can shift them to reflect product on the shelf) as opposed to full shelves and stuff pushed out of the warehouse. 99% of customers probably don't care about the difference between spaghetti and spaghettini anyway...I can't even tell.
I'm not the only one annoyed by her antics; an informal poll says that 3/4 of the team doesn't like her particular brand of micromanaging.
Someone--probably A--has now "inspired" S to come up with and post a daily task list, to be initialed by whoever does it...A's predecessor tried that when we first opened and it lasted all of a month before our manager gave it a well-deserved burial.
I think what S is angling for is to see who's doing what they "should" be doing....the first iteration resulted in people quickly forgetting about the List and just initialing it so there would be an initial there. Sure, some of us are given specific tasks by J, but aside from that it's whoever gets to something first and typically one task=one person does not exist (save for donations, which only myself and R are ever allowed to do as we do it correctly).
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