Re: are all safeway employees on drugs
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Date: August 29, 2016 05:05AM
More "from the inside insights"...
1- Retail will hire all the WELFARE/EBT receiving people they can first (tax credit, ready to work!), then DISABLED/VETERANS (another tax credit! Which is why you see truly retarded people- not meant as an insult, I speak the truth here- working at safeway- they get a tax credit for them or else they would not hire them!) then non-english speaking people new here (they don't know better than to ask for more than minimum wage and can't speak english well enough to even try to negotiate!) and THEN if there is NO ONE ELSE available to hire- will they hire the american kid who lives right up the street. Because they know a) kid has a mom/dad who will tell the kid to ask for more money/has a lawyer on speeddial if Safeway fucks with their kid and b) safeway knows kids will quit on a dime to be with their friends friday night and would rather take the person fresh off the boat grateful to even HAVE a job so will tend to hire more "older" non english speaking workers just to have a warm body in the store.
2- turnover is so high in most retail places..... even if they had 5 people working to start the year and hired 5 more, it is likely 5 of the 10 will quit before the year is out!!
3- the most common reasons for retail workers leaving a job is either BAD MANAGEMENT or NOT LISTENING TO THE EMPLOYEES SCHEDULING NEEDS. If Pam got hired and said she can only work mornings, yet you keep scheduling Pam on night shifts knowing she can't work those hours, Pam will probably get frustrated and quit. Not to mention, Suzy (Pam's manager) loves to gossip about all her staff and Pam has heard stuff on her other coworkers which makes her wonder what is being said about her when she is not there. Also, management keeps dumping all the difficult tasks to Pam while Pam's coworkers get paid more AND do less work. So now Pam doesn't trust management and wants out. Even if the work itself was fine, if Pam doesn't trust Suzy it won't work out!!
4- most managers get promoted to get them "out of the way" of regular staff and their tasks (google "peter principle"). so "Suzy" (the manager) can't run a cash register or make sandwiches, but they promoted her because she is cute (true story, seen it in many a restaurant/retail establishment). so now she, not knowing ANYTHING about the ACTUAL daily tasks is set to manage Pam, who knows her job inside and out and is tired of being micromanaged by Suzy. One day, Pam calls off work out of spite and learns Suzy fucked the whole store up that day. But PAM gets yelled at upon her return for the mistakes. Even though it was SUZYS fault. Pam wasn't even THERE and gets blamed by managers for mistakes. Of course Pam, only making $8 an hour wants to leave. Suzy, making $45k/year can blame whoever she wants as she is the boss.
5- managers tend to have a "god" complex. Give them a little bit of power or let them hold that register key- all of a sudden they think they are the Kings and QUeens of safeway inc and can run over all the "little people" on their way to the top, not caring who's careers they fucked over to get there.