The Woolworths Thread (9 Viewers)

[BSammy]

oh that feeling SUCKS. Our relief SSO for a month is from my old store, which is cool, but i saw her briefly yesterday (at about 4.30, she'd been there since 6) and she said she'd JUST stopped crying, because everything that could go wrong went wrong, on her FIRST day. The SSS was up there all day. Poor girl.

Hey BSammy, if a FSC Card is scanned for a refund, do the points get deducted from their account?

apparently the points are deducted, which is why my old csm always put the number in when doing refunds for people who annoyed him.

i've just started my 3rd week of head cash officing, i think i'm doing ok, but it's tough.
i also did front end rosters for next week while i had nothing to do on monday, and finished them with the 2ic today, as our csm was transferred and our new csm is sick for the first week of being at our store.
and our 2ic was transferred to us from tpc and is new at all this is was only just learning to do rosters.
i let her look over them so she felt like she was doing something, but it was almost entirely me.
and we got them looking alright, at only $40 over budget.

fuck yeah!

 

[Harry778]

Rosters are so much fun! CSM said dont worry too much about going over budget..I usually go about $1000-15000 over...why no one cares I'll never know. BUT $1000, is it just me or is that alot? They get away with this every week apaz.

Anyway..it was fun. Gave all my favs good shifts =D he he he.

 

[BSammy]

Rosters are so much fun! CSM said dont worry too much about going over budget..I usually go about $1000-15000 over...why no one cares I'll never know. BUT $1000, is it just me or is that alot? They get away with this every week apaz.

Anyway..it was fun. Gave all my favs good shifts =D he he he.

15000? christ!

took great pleasure in not giving the crap supervisor any super shifts.
especially the ones she's permanently rostered to do, move her 15 minutes later and she's now the operator open shift, not the super shift.
made even better by how the SSM told me not to give her any super because she's crap, and she lost $183 from a register last week. she got written up for that.

 

[bensneddon]

15000? christ!

Would love to see the OR on the productivity report for $15k over wage budget

 

[babikakez]

Rosters are so much fun! CSM said dont worry too much about going over budget..I usually go about $1000-15000 over...why no one cares I'll never know. BUT $1000, is it just me or is that alot? They get away with this every week apaz.

Anyway..it was fun. Gave all my favs good shifts =D he he he.

I'm sure you mean 1500

We (myself and the other sunday supervisors) once got to design our ultmate sunday grids. Basically the CSM went, here's your hours, you can have x amount of people on all day or you can have half days, let me know what you want. Sundays ran so awesomely for like the three weeks she listened to us, because we put NOONE on who always calls in sick/is generally lazy/noone likes etc.

Our grids ended up so differently. The 10-2 shift that always gets given became 11-3, only like four people on before 10.30, we staggared start and finish times, and of course gave our faves all day shifts.

I'd say we were VERY successful.

But of course, this happened for like 3 weeks

 

[lordtopcat]

Believe me guys, you will soon get sick of doing Rosters

 

[wixxy2348]

Rosters are so much fun! CSM said dont worry too much about going over budget..I usually go about $1000-15000 over...why no one cares I'll never know. BUT $1000, is it just me or is that alot? They get away with this every week apaz.

Anyway..it was fun. Gave all my favs good shifts =D he he he.

Lol, $1000 over is a lot. My department's entire budget is around 5K, of which we use 4.5-4.8 most weeks.

Believe me guys, you will soon get sick of doing Rosters

Rosters are honestly just painful.

In my department, as we have fuck all staff, it's like, "Oh, so he got fired. So I can't roster him the 5 shifts a week like normal." *big red X big red X big red X*

"Oh so he's going to uni starting next week, so he only wants 4 hours a week. There goes another 26 regular hours." *massive red X through most of the week*

"Oh he has another job now and wants 4 hours a month. That's really helpful." *big red X*

And as far as casuals go, that's it. Then I have to cut the intellectually disable woman, who does shit all, IN for the 12 hours some genius contracted her! Then the bossy chick who feels "entitled" to two hours of breaks every day/acts as though she's the department manager/massive know it all (sure she's a good worker, but damn...) in for 30 hours.

Then the 2 bakers and 2 pastry chefs, at 38 hours each (this is the easy part lol). Then my Manager. Then my 2IC (assuming she isn't on holidays). And then me. I am always the last to be cut in (except for atm coz I'm 2IC and all that).

OH ALSO GUYS GREAT NEWS. When my 2IC comes back, I've been warned that "in spite of all the great work I've done for the company over the last 5 or so months of 38+ hours/week, and 25-30 hours every week for the couple of YEARS before that, and 2IC relief and everything, because I'm not contracted to anything more than 11 hours, it will be my hours that are most likely to be cut in order to put her 40 hours back in". FUCKING great.

 

[whatashotbyseve]

Come to the dark side Wixxy

 

[wixxy2348]

Come to the dark side Wixxy

The dark side doesn't want me!

 

[whatashotbyseve]

They don't have a spot anywhere? That's annoying. I actually think Coles is more stable in terms of turnover than Woolworths atm.

 

[shinji]

Lol, $1000 over is a lot. My department's entire budget is around 5K, of which we use 4.5-4.8 most weeks.



Rosters are honestly just painful.

In my department, as we have fuck all staff, it's like, "Oh, so he got fired. So I can't roster him the 5 shifts a week like normal." *big red X big red X big red X*

"Oh so he's going to uni starting next week, so he only wants 4 hours a week. There goes another 26 regular hours." *massive red X through most of the week*

"Oh he has another job now and wants 4 hours a month. That's really helpful." *big red X*

And as far as casuals go, that's it. Then I have to cut the intellectually disable woman, who does shit all, IN for the 12 hours some genius contracted her! Then the bossy chick who feels "entitled" to two hours of breaks every day/acts as though she's the department manager/massive know it all (sure she's a good worker, but damn...) in for 30 hours.

Then the 2 bakers and 2 pastry chefs, at 38 hours each (this is the easy part lol). Then my Manager. Then my 2IC (assuming she isn't on holidays). And then me. I am always the last to be cut in (except for atm coz I'm 2IC and all that).

OH ALSO GUYS GREAT NEWS. When my 2IC comes back, I've been warned that "in spite of all the great work I've done for the company over the last 5 or so months of 38+ hours/week, and 25-30 hours every week for the couple of YEARS before that, and 2IC relief and everything, because I'm not contracted to anything more than 11 hours, it will be my hours that are most likely to be cut in order to put her 40 hours back in". FUCKING great.

yes ... uni and only 4 hrs a week..
i went through uni doing 20+ hours a week on top of club activities, study, and allthatstuffs.

 

[yoddle]

apparently the points are deducted, which is why my old csm always put the number in when doing refunds for people who annoyed him.

i've just started my 3rd week of head cash officing, i think i'm doing ok, but it's tough.
i also did front end rosters for next week while i had nothing to do on monday, and finished them with the 2ic today, as our csm was transferred and our new csm is sick for the first week of being at our store.
and our 2ic was transferred to us from tpc and is new at all this is was only just learning to do rosters.
i let her look over them so she felt like she was doing something, but it was almost entirely me.
and we got them looking alright, at only $40 over budget.

fuck yeah!

Ah OK cool. That's a bit stingy! I'll also be unprofessional and only ask if they're returning something they got the wrong one of, i.e. not if they have off chicken, which speaking of, has anyone had major problems with Inghams lately? We have had SOOOO much packaged chicken returned, and the deli had to throw out ALL their Inghams chicken a few weeks back because it was all completely off upon delivery.

The SSO i referred to in my previous post has now left the store, 1 and a half days in. Poor girl.

Rosters are so much fun! CSM said dont worry too much about going over budget..I usually go about $1000-15000 over...why no one cares I'll never know. BUT $1000, is it just me or is that alot? They get away with this every week apaz.

Anyway..it was fun. Gave all my favs good shifts =D he he he.

YES! Actually my CSM goes over by that much like every week but we have a miniature budget.

I'm sure you mean 1500

We (myself and the other sunday supervisors) once got to design our ultmate sunday grids. Basically the CSM went, here's your hours, you can have x amount of people on all day or you can have half days, let me know what you want. Sundays ran so awesomely for like the three weeks she listened to us, because we put NOONE on who always calls in sick/is generally lazy/noone likes etc.

Our grids ended up so differently. The 10-2 shift that always gets given became 11-3, only like four people on before 10.30, we staggared start and finish times, and of course gave our faves all day shifts.

I'd say we were VERY successful.

But of course, this happened for like 3 weeks

Aaaahh heaven. I actually SO desire to do the rosters.

 

[wixxy2348]

They don't have a spot anywhere? That's annoying. I actually think Coles is more stable in terms of turnover than Woolworths atm.

yes ... uni and only 4 hrs a week..
i went through uni doing 20+ hours a week on top of club activities, study, and allthatstuffs.

I did 30+ hours a week during uni, but this little shit is like "Noooooo I can only do 4 hrs/day max, and only 1 day a weeek or I will fail"

 

[killer-cupcakes]

I would like to do rosters, But i'd freak out

The 10-2 shift is good, but i love my 8-12 sunday shift

 

[shinji]

I did 30+ hours a week during uni, but this little shit is like "Noooooo I can only do 4 hrs/day max, and only 1 day a weeek or I will fail"

haha what year is that 'little shit' in?
I usually worked weekends and the occasional weekday.

 

[Harry778]

I'm sure you mean 1500

We (myself and the other sunday supervisors) once got to design our ultmate sunday grids. Basically the CSM went, here's your hours, you can have x amount of people on all day or you can have half days, let me know what you want. Sundays ran so awesomely for like the three weeks she listened to us, because we put NOONE on who always calls in sick/is generally lazy/noone likes etc.

Our grids ended up so differently. The 10-2 shift that always gets given became 11-3, only like four people on before 10.30, we staggared start and finish times, and of course gave our faves all day shifts.

I'd say we were VERY successful.

But of course, this happened for like 3 weeks

OOPS..yes I meant 1500....lol..defiantly not 15000.

 

[shinji]

I would like to do rosters, But i'd freak out

The 10-2 shift is good, but i love my 8-12 sunday shift

I love my 6-3pm shifts.. for the fact that i start early and finish early.
and believe it or not, but 9 hr shifts are short for me. lol; usually do 10hr days.

 

[shinji]

OOPS..yes I meant 1500....lol..defiantly not 15000.

Or else it would've been . OVER 9000!!

>_>

 

[wixxy2348]

haha what year is that 'little shit' in?
I usually worked weekends and the occasional weekday.

Just starting second year now. -_-

 

[whatashotbyseve]

Hahaha is he Asian? Studying 30hrs a week is unAustralian. Night before ftw.