I’m a bagger at Kroger. Yesterday 2 baggers didn’t come into work and for over an hour I was the only person who could bag. They couldn’t even call people from other departments to bag for some reason. Some customers had to bag their own groceries which isn’t good. One of the baggers that didn’t come in is only available on Sundays which means she won’t get paid next payday. There’s also another bagger that is only available on Saturday and Sunday. I feel like making yourself unavailable during the week should be against the rules.
We’ve all had people who’ve not come into work when they were supposed to, leading to major inconvenience for those who do work there.
I’m having one of those days right now, actually. I work in TV lighting, and my supervisor is stuck in an epic traffic jam. So it’s just me and one other guy doing the best we can to make the show work, when neither of us know how to work this lighting desk (it’s a very unusual one that has nothing in common with any other desk and makes no sense) because that’s not our job!
Arg!
I used to be a bagger and cashier for Ingles (in NC), oh, 18 years ago whilst attending school. One of the worst things about the retail industry is the turnover rate and the uncommitted. If you’re one of those people who takes your job very seriously and commits 110%, you are only digging yourself that grave. I am also one of those people. You make up for other’s ill fortitude.
NOW, if you have a great boss, they will see this and compensate you via some manner. Otherwise, you could be looking at being extorted for your hard work. “Well, he did that all by himself. Why do I need 2 others who won’t even show up?” Yeah, that happens a lot.
Just hang in there. Do the best you can. And go home knowing that you did the best you can. 
Thanks. Actually 2 people who were undependable got fired. Hopefully the next people they hire will be more openly available.
I’m a paraeducator in a prek autism only classroom. These past three weeks or so it’s just been me and my teacher while our third para has allegedly been out sick with her kids. Rules for paras is that Ya suppose to call in a substitute para before 6am. She does know that my teacher has been checking in with the dept. who oversees subs. Sometimes she’s called in before and requested, sometimes she hasnt. Sometimes she’s called in 5 minutes before students have arrived. Its driving my teacher and I nuts: not only does it effect us but it’s huge on the students. Autistic children need consistency. They have schedules to follow and its hard with two people and five kids in the morning and seven in the afternoon. We were luck this past week that we had an excellent sub. We don’t always get subs and when we do, they aren’t always the best either. We had subs with canes or they are older and can’t move as fast, next thing you know we have a kid hanging from ceiling. We also have had subs who have fallen asleep on us. Its just a big mess.
I will pray for your situation, Rodimus.
I know this feeling so hard. and that is because I work in produce at Kroger!
I understand the feeling, especially because when our baggers don’t come in, being a smaller store, they start calling for the other departments and then we get behind in our own jobs and sometimes get blamed for being so behind when it really isn’t our fault. It gets pretty frustrating.
Now we are still short 3 baggers. We would’ve been short just 2 but a girl that was new just quit because she hated working til midnight.
I’m one of the few part-timers at my job (grocery store as well) that is unofficially cross-trained in basically everything except deli/service desk/cash office. The result is that when I’m supposed to be making sure people don’t walk out with half the store through self-checkout I get tapped to do everything else…and then when there is a theft through self-check I get complained at because “you weren’t watching closely enough” (no, I was watching what I’m supposed to. You decided you wanted me elsewhere and ignored me when I told you to watch that person)
We have plenty of bodies, but budget issues and the HAL-9000 scheduling system says we don’t need as many as we actually do.