Archived Scheduling?

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sher said:
I think she (new hr lady) genuinely thinks I'm market trained, possibly because all the new TMs get trained (more in depth than the 1.5 hour training shift everyone got back when I started) everywhere. I spoke with the um pa and she's scheduled during the same time (I only have a 4 hour mid) and worst come to worst, she said she'll help me out. I just feel like that little shift will lead to me slowing them down.

Then again, just remembered, they claim baby is now consumables. I hope this isn't a ploy for baby food zoning. I'd rather learn market.
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As a PA I see help for four hours and feel like

Yeeee, I get to clean stufffffffffff.
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WOOOOOOOOOO

Then they break my heart, kidnap you to Infants

but i sign the sheet anyway.
 
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sher said:
They're not gonna kidnap me. I'll just refer them to the grid. I'm nervous about newness, but not enough to go to baby haha. That's my usual area, but I'm so over it.
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I will warn you that Dry Market is every bit as bad and worse than infants. I think it might depend on your store, 80% of the time Dry is the top department in sales at my store so that makes it quite annoying.
 
It has the possibility to be better simply because the rest of the softlines team doesn't even attempt to maintain infants (gondolas et al). That's the reason I hate it. I'm frustrated that no one ever thinks to help me keep it nice. If I have a short shift and can't finish my reshop, I come in the next day to find a cart taller than me that has the stuff I left the previous day in the bottom of the cart still. I actually don't mind the work. It's just impossible to maintain on my own. I've zoned in dry market a few times during the team 4x4 things, though. That aspect isn't worse than baby.
 
Ashfromoldsite said:
But why would the store want a GSA to train a new GSA? The gstl should be training him. It doesn't make any sense to me.
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Dunno, seems weird to me too. for instance at our store I am not even sure if any of the GSA's are aware I am being trained to be a GSA, it's strictly the GSTL that has anything to do with said training.
 
BigEyedPhish said:
Then they break my heart, kidnap you to Infants

but i sign the sheet anyway.
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That's assuming Sher doesn't get code one'd or pushed into filling in a callout/ncns

"But you have an extra person, and you'd be helping the store"

I die a little every time I get scheduled extra people. I can't bring myself to make plans for that extra warm body, because they're always crushed.
 
Ashfromoldsite said:
But why would the store want a GSA to train a new GSA? The gstl should be training him. It doesn't make any sense to me.
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Sure it does. It's the same thing as cashiers training other cashiers, guest service training other guest service, etc. TLs don't do the training unless they are training TLs for other stores. GSAs should be training new GSAs. While the on the floor stuff looks generally the same, the political crap that you deal with as a GSA is miles apart from what you deal with as a GSTL.
 
I agreed with everyone. Certain folks at my store, are great trainers in several areas, my mgt want to make sure those folks get trained correctly.
 
Btw, I didn't get kidnapped lol. I was in pfresh all day. Pushed produce, meat, dairy cafs and attempted to zone the aisle with frozen breakfast and hot pockets. Such a cold job. I wasn't prepared. Thought I'd end up doing dry market but they had a plethora of people doing dry today. I didn't hate it, but next time I'd dress for the weather and carry tissues and such.
 
sher said:
Btw, I didn't get kidnapped lol. I was in pfresh all day. Pushed produce, meat, dairy cafs and attempted to zone the aisle with frozen breakfast and hot pockets. Such a cold job. I wasn't prepared. Thought I'd end up doing dry market but they had a plethora of people doing dry today. I didn't hate it, but next time I'd dress for the weather and carry tissues and such.
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At least you didn't have to run outs on the bread table or another hole prone section that begins life in frozen.

Yeah, highlight of my day: spending an hour or two pulling product in our negative 10 freezer.

Congrats on your first pfresh day though. First one is usually the biggest pain.
 
sher said:
I just looked at the new schedule and I'm in consumables one day lol. I've never worked over there. This never happened before the new hr girl, so I'm blaming her whether she did it or not
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I don't know about this one. It was recently explained to me that "consumables" no longer just refers to market. It now refers to any area of the store that has product that is dated and must be checked and turned over. Meaning pet food and baby food now fall under consumables. This is why softlines is sometimes scheduled "consumables" hours because they are responsible for baby world (in our store) and why hardlines salesfloor team members are also getting the occasional "consumable" hours. The problem with that is that I think when scheduled in consumables those team members ought to be going through the dated product and culling and charging out whatever is expired, dented, or broken in baby food and pet food. Only the LODs in our store aren't really monitoring that and the TMs don't know to do anything different than what they normally do.
 
I'm not sure how far you read. Either way, I actually usually work baby. Always scheduled in softlines, though. Never anywhere else except the occasional fitting room shifts. Otherwise, our schedules have yet to reflect the change in categorization. We've been on MyTime for quite some time now. No one is scheduled consumables if they're gonna be expected to work in softlines... Or baby. I did mention it as a possibility in a post after that one, but even so, it would've been a change implemented by the new hr etl, because the old one just continued to do the schedule ignoring the whole baby is consumables thing.

I went straight to the PA, though. I didn't ask any TLs or ETLs. The ctl is on vacation, I think. If they schedule me in consumablesin the future, I'll never go to baby during it. Ever. Ever. Ever.

Edit: Never. Lol. The only positive thought I had when I saw consumables was "at least I won't have to go to baby."
 
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I'm not sure how far you read. Either way, I actually usually work baby. Always scheduled in softlines, though. Never anywhere else except the occasional fitting room shifts. Otherwise, our schedules have yet to reflect the change in categorization. We've been on MyTime for quite some time now. No one is scheduled consumables if they're gonna be expected to work in softlines... Or baby. I did mention it as a possibility in a post after that one, but even so, it would've been a change implemented by the new hr etl, because the old one just continued to do the schedule ignoring the whole baby is consumables thing.

I went straight to the PA, though. I didn't ask any TLs or ETLs. The ctl is on vacation, I think. If they schedule me in consumablesin the future, I'll never go to baby during it. Ever. Ever. Ever.

Edit: Never. Lol. The only positive thought I had when I saw consumables was "at least I won't have to go to baby."
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Yeh, for some reason did not see the second page of this post. ><
 
sher said:
Btw, I didn't get kidnapped lol. I was in pfresh all day. Pushed produce, meat, dairy cafs and attempted to zone the aisle with frozen breakfast and hot pockets. Such a cold job. I wasn't prepared. Thought I'd end up doing dry market but they had a plethora of people doing dry today. I didn't hate it, but next time I'd dress for the weather and carry tissues and such.
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P-Fresh is a nice break from the rest of the floor. Plus, since you have time-sensitive perishables CAFs on the floor, you don't have to back-up cash nearly as much. 😀

Next time you have to work frozen product, ask for a pair of gloves. My store has a reserve of gloves for anyone pushing frozen (see: market team, flow team). There might also be a coat or two you can wear if you have to go inside the freezer stockroom, but you're probably better off bringing your own.
 
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