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In reply to the discussion: In 1981, I was a full time stock clerk at an Ohio Big Bear grocery store making 12.60 an hour [View all]Backseat Driver
(4,425 posts)They've now invented "comp time" to take care of that. Work overtime, get docked in scheduled hours next week; scheduled on a slow day - on the spot - go home! Must please Wall Street owners, you see!
DH's Target store has only two "asset protection" guys and have not hired or trained more or others. Some days, neither show up for work! Back when I worked in retail, we laughed about ours--they were the ones talking on their walkie-talkies inside the brown paper bags. Very obvious super sleuths! That "organized theft" the CEOs cite isn't all walking out the front door; even at the SCOs, mid-management isn't doing diddly to prevent that impression either. Morale is often terrible. Management, perhaps on salary, doesn't staff adequately - in hiring or scheduling; no overtime is ever permitted and there isn't anyone they can call in - yet they continue to claim they are FULLY STAFFED and it's their fault shrinkage is high. Thank goodness, Dept of Labor won that case and now mid-managment on salary can get paid overtime ostensibly to fix what's broken...hahaha! They fix it by docking the hourly staff! Get mad - call off? Lose another $100 for the day.
Recently the store got hit by lightening, and all the freezer/refrigerated foods had to get pitched because the power went out overnight - Duh? No one checked? No back-up plan? That loss is shrinkage, no? You might think "insurance" covered the lost inventory, but you'd be partially wrong...management only insured it for cost. Did they, the en-titled (purposeful play on words) accept accountability for the loss? Nope! The hourly workers were told they'd all be docked hours to make up for the full "retail" value of the lost merchandise. It was more than a week before inventory was completely restored resulting in lower store sales as well. We lost over $600 in his checks over 30 days - two pay periods. Last increase, last year: $0.05 per hour. Must be because COLA gave a special interest group (old enough for SS) 8.07% when inflation was sooo high, hahaha.