r/stopandshop

Hi everyone. I work at stop and shop, in the pharmacy department. I am a technician and I make the same amount of money as a clerk. I personal think it’s a little messed up because we have way more responsibilities and work. Imma yap to my union representative and see if it does something.

From Mass here. Anyone going to cutting in the meat dept. what are your feelings about it. Lack of help especially since they removed all the automatic wrapping machines

Lately whenever work calls me in on my day off, I get hit with this huge wave of shame and guilt if I say no. Today they called because they had two call-outs and asked if I could come in, but I already made plans for the day and honestly don’t really have the mental capacity to work today anyway.

Even though I know I technically didn’t do anything wrong since I wasn’t scheduled, my brain immediately goes to:
“You’re lazy.”
“You’re letting people down.”
“You’re inconsistent.”
“You should’ve just gone in.”

I’m just wondering if anyone else struggles with feeling this guilty saying no to work, especially when they really need help.

Store managers are legit awful human beings. Nothing else to say, just wanted to vent.

So I redeemed my points to $5 grocery dollars while waiting in line to the cashier to pay. I have $7 fried chicken 8 pieces. It didn't come off in the cashier, the assistant told me it might be show up right away maybe come back next day. What the heck! 15mins later tried again still nothing. Wondering if the cashier did something wrong or grocery dollars really didn't take effect right away? Bizarre digital coupons or saving stations coupons come off right away..

Is the 8 pieces fried chicken not eligible to use grocery dollars?

So I was recently confronted, and the manager brought to my attention that I have been coming in late and leaving early due to my physical limitation. , and they had suggested that if that is the case, I should be looking towards going on disability or or supplementing my sick time for hours not worked which I understand. Full time = 40 got it.

My next objective is to get seen by a specialist to get a doctors note limiting my capabilities and putting on light duty and I’m using all my resources cause I’m in no rush to really leave this company but definitely looking to move around in the company maybe jobs that require sitting down like a assistant manager or loss prevention. In the mean time I think FLMA is the next round for me which no manager ever suggested.

Now in your experience whenever a manager, had you go in an office did you ever ask to speak with your union representative and did you ever ask and they denied you just curious. I’m trying to stay with the company July will make eight years. Share your stores, experience, and I am willing to hear. Thank you.

What usually happens or makes the day a notable thing?

I took 2 personal days( Friday and Saturday that just passed). Online on my time card is says personal days on those days but doesn’t give the number of hours I’m getting paid for. I know personal days are my average shift amount. Does personal days get manually put in by a manager or does the system automatically do it? It’s past midnight and I was hoping it would show already. I have a bad feeling that I’m not going to get paid for my personal days.

I just got in the mail a keychain you get for being there 5 years. Ill be there for 5 years Sep 3rd. Is it normal to get it 6 months early?

Throwaway account to avoid more retaliation. Does anyone else have a full timer in PFS who mostly stands at the computer and watches Y&R episodes on their phone?

He intentionally slows our metrics down. The way he adds wasted time to a pick list is put the first page of a center store label sheet together with an unrelated perimeter zone like, frozen/dairy, meat produce then hands it to the shopper and says "here, now make SURE to combine these two." And then the route results in one or two items from a handful of center aisles, but also hits three different corners of the building, not in order, to pick up just one or two items and requires labeling more bags than fit on the cart because raw meat has to be separate from other chilled, vs dry vs. chemicals etc.

If the software claims to economize walk/pick ratio, Slick Slackerman has found THE way to undo what the software is intended to do. How much did they pay for that software?

Question: When employees schedules print up as Facilitator as opposed to Shopper, why is it they are always put in a shopper role for their whole shift regardless? Too lazy to train? Or is it because Sir Slackerman doesn't want to lose control of his metrics gaming? Maybe upper management is fooled. But they should care because his style of "facilitating" brings the whole department's metrics down and the store has to pay more employee hours to that department than it really needs. This is so he can stand off to the side and stream episodes of Y&R on company time and go home untaxed by customer interaction and tired from pushing a cart full of 24 pack waters zigzag throughout the store.

One way he makes his own metrics look high is to hardly ever do a regular shop using the CnC cart where you're pausing for customer questions and aisle jams and asking managers about OOS while your timer is running. Instead he goes in one shot and gets all the preorders from deli and speed scans them in the back room.

Would even the union help employees who have been targeted by him? Because he's union too. Is it metrics fraud only when a customer gets overcharged and this is basic just internal metrics sabotage?

TLDR: facilitator falsely inflates his own metrics and sets up workers under him to look more inferior than they actually are. Who cares? Union, AP, District, SM, ethics?

Edit is for spelling Y&R soap opera

This is directly towards anyone who has actually undergone FMLA for personal reasons, not for the sake of taking care of someone else I would like to know anyone specifically in New York how did you go on FMLA for yourself? What was the process? steps? how did you go about it? This is the first time.

My local S&S hasn't had their store brand spicy pico de gallo style salsa in like three weeks. It's by far my favorite salsa. I'm wondering if anyone else has seen it in other stores. Thanks!