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ASM just told me last night that this next week has a huge amount of tags (if it's also another reset Night Crew Lead is going to go apeshit and I don't blame him) and I'm supposed to work even though a) I requested that weekend off weeks ago and b) I have a train to catch at 7AM on Friday. Mom's going with me on this trip, so she basically has the say on when I can work (which depends on when we need to call a taxi and if she can have the driver swing by the store to pick me up). She spends a crapload of money at the store, and ASM doesn't want to annoy her (also, annoyed mom means that she won't bring ASM the extras whenever she bakes cookies).
You'd think that the correct thing to do as a manager is to let one's only available pricing person know about a time-off blackout day as soon as you find out about it, no?
Now, on with the countdown!
3) A good portion of the tags I'm given aren't even dated-sale tags, but the "New Everyday Low Price" tags that I'm convinced most shoppers don't really look at. Possibly because the "New Low Price!" is the same price that's been on the shelf for a month or more, so all we're doing is drawing attention to prices that people are already used to. For added fun, a lot of these tags are 'corrections' where the only difference is one day on the "Good Through" date (which itself is pointless)
I should have gotten a picture of this last night, but will try to explain.
Item A has a "New Low Price!" tag with a good-through (why? it's not like the price goes back up after that date) date of 5/14. The "new" tag has a good-through date of 5/15. Unlike the sale tags which are black-on-white printing, these for some reason are poor-resolution white on blue and the dates aren't even noticeable unless you spend a few seconds squinting at it.
Adding even further to the clutter, these tags often don't get taken down after their 'sell by' date (see? even associates don't pay attention to the damn things) so I have to spend time pulling those which means less time to do my job.
2) I still can't figure out how they're organized (aside from by aisle, and even that's not a given). I hate getting to the end of an aisle only to find 2 or 3 tags that go in the other end of the store (or a different aisle altogether). Sorting by brand/vendor is only really helpful for me in Frozen, because that means I have to spend less time with my bare hands in the coolers. I have gloves, but they don't help if I have to pull off five layers of old tags that have frozen to each other and the shelf (can't do that with gloved hands).
1) I need help. Even if I got someone that I had to train, that would be two bodies doing the tags. Before, they had three. I am getting two rookies for next week, one of whom is pretty sharp and will help train the other guy (for what it's worth, I was never trained past 'this is how you match up tags'), but I don't know if that arrangement is permanent or not. Yes, I did two overnights in a row this week--and still didn't finish--but it's not something I want to repeat (or can repeat, depending on whether my petsitting job requires me to be elsewhere--if I'm three towns over, I am not taking the bus at that hour and I am not leaving the dog alone if the owner has said I shouldn't). My 'supervisor' is apparently able to get the store done in one shift (and my predecessor actually did, but she didn't get the chance to train me); most of the other department managers are wondering why the hell I haven't been given help yet if it's clear I can't do the same. Some weeks Night Crew Lead wants me to help stock shelves but also wants me to get the tags done before I do that...
It's not that I mind the job, it's just that they still expect me to do the entire store by myself in one shift despite clear evidence that I can't (some nights I can get more done than others, but not everything).
You'd think that the correct thing to do as a manager is to let one's only available pricing person know about a time-off blackout day as soon as you find out about it, no?
Now, on with the countdown!
3) A good portion of the tags I'm given aren't even dated-sale tags, but the "New Everyday Low Price" tags that I'm convinced most shoppers don't really look at. Possibly because the "New Low Price!" is the same price that's been on the shelf for a month or more, so all we're doing is drawing attention to prices that people are already used to. For added fun, a lot of these tags are 'corrections' where the only difference is one day on the "Good Through" date (which itself is pointless)
I should have gotten a picture of this last night, but will try to explain.Item A has a "New Low Price!" tag with a good-through (why? it's not like the price goes back up after that date) date of 5/14. The "new" tag has a good-through date of 5/15. Unlike the sale tags which are black-on-white printing, these for some reason are poor-resolution white on blue and the dates aren't even noticeable unless you spend a few seconds squinting at it.
Adding even further to the clutter, these tags often don't get taken down after their 'sell by' date (see? even associates don't pay attention to the damn things) so I have to spend time pulling those which means less time to do my job.
2) I still can't figure out how they're organized (aside from by aisle, and even that's not a given). I hate getting to the end of an aisle only to find 2 or 3 tags that go in the other end of the store (or a different aisle altogether). Sorting by brand/vendor is only really helpful for me in Frozen, because that means I have to spend less time with my bare hands in the coolers. I have gloves, but they don't help if I have to pull off five layers of old tags that have frozen to each other and the shelf (can't do that with gloved hands).
1) I need help. Even if I got someone that I had to train, that would be two bodies doing the tags. Before, they had three. I am getting two rookies for next week, one of whom is pretty sharp and will help train the other guy (for what it's worth, I was never trained past 'this is how you match up tags'), but I don't know if that arrangement is permanent or not. Yes, I did two overnights in a row this week--and still didn't finish--but it's not something I want to repeat (or can repeat, depending on whether my petsitting job requires me to be elsewhere--if I'm three towns over, I am not taking the bus at that hour and I am not leaving the dog alone if the owner has said I shouldn't). My 'supervisor' is apparently able to get the store done in one shift (and my predecessor actually did, but she didn't get the chance to train me); most of the other department managers are wondering why the hell I haven't been given help yet if it's clear I can't do the same. Some weeks Night Crew Lead wants me to help stock shelves but also wants me to get the tags done before I do that...
It's not that I mind the job, it's just that they still expect me to do the entire store by myself in one shift despite clear evidence that I can't (some nights I can get more done than others, but not everything).
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