Beauty TM here who has been shifted over to cleaning shifts and cart wipe since COVID.
I was never asked whether or not I wanted to clean. I was never informed that this is how things are changing it might be for good from now on. I literally walked in to find myself taken off beauty team without a single notice.
But with everything going on, I understand. The store needs someone to keep everything sanitized, so I’ve been flexible.
So our store has had one person wiping down carts and another person walking around doing the store cleaning at any given time.
My issue is, as the store cleaner ....we’re more likely to be used as a cashier. It’s happened several times where I’m scheduled to clean and I’ll walk in and one TL goes “Just hop on a register for your whole shift today.”
I’ll look at the schedule and see that not enough cashiers were even scheduled to begin with.
It’s very aggravating because I can’t stand to cashier for a whole shift.
I don’t mind doing backup for a few minutes.
I don’t mind cleaning.
But cashiering for a whole shift stresses me t eff out and I do not want to do it.
But in my opinion, we’re supposed to have a cleaning person for a reason, and a good reason at that...since we’ve actually had team members with COVID in the store within the last 2 weeks ....but they’d rather borrow me as their supplemental cashier instead of what I’m supposed to be doing, and I told them today I’m simply not interested in that and that if this continues, they can look for someone else to be put on cleaning.
So my leader told me “blah blah it just depends on what we need that day but we can limit your cleaning hours, but I don’t know what your overall hours will look like after that because there’s not many hours to give you elsewhere”
I told her I understand.
Is this happening in any other stores?
I was never asked whether or not I wanted to clean. I was never informed that this is how things are changing it might be for good from now on. I literally walked in to find myself taken off beauty team without a single notice.
But with everything going on, I understand. The store needs someone to keep everything sanitized, so I’ve been flexible.
So our store has had one person wiping down carts and another person walking around doing the store cleaning at any given time.
My issue is, as the store cleaner ....we’re more likely to be used as a cashier. It’s happened several times where I’m scheduled to clean and I’ll walk in and one TL goes “Just hop on a register for your whole shift today.”
I’ll look at the schedule and see that not enough cashiers were even scheduled to begin with.
It’s very aggravating because I can’t stand to cashier for a whole shift.
I don’t mind doing backup for a few minutes.
I don’t mind cleaning.
But cashiering for a whole shift stresses me t eff out and I do not want to do it.
But in my opinion, we’re supposed to have a cleaning person for a reason, and a good reason at that...since we’ve actually had team members with COVID in the store within the last 2 weeks ....but they’d rather borrow me as their supplemental cashier instead of what I’m supposed to be doing, and I told them today I’m simply not interested in that and that if this continues, they can look for someone else to be put on cleaning.
So my leader told me “blah blah it just depends on what we need that day but we can limit your cleaning hours, but I don’t know what your overall hours will look like after that because there’s not many hours to give you elsewhere”
I told her I understand.
Is this happening in any other stores?
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