Will Global Ethics Help Me?
I've been considering calling the Global Ethics line for a while due to a plethora of issues, but every time I start to do it, I wonder if my issues aren't just the way the company runs and I'm just stuck in this situation for now.
When I started, I was a part time overnight merchandiser working in grocery. The work was hard, but the pay was good and the hours allowed me to work on personal projects in my off time. They offered me full-time, but I told them I would not be able to do it due to my personal interests. Work-life balance, right? Ha.
Eventually, the usual lift driver for grocery decided to cut down to two days a week and they trained me to drive a lift to take her days off. I figured that someone would cover the fifth day, but I was scheduled for five days a week and, when I raised an objection to the night manager, he said that it was what they expected when I trained on the lift. I never agreed to work full-time.
My family convinced me to stay with it so I would get benefits sooner. Around Christmas time, the store manager told me I would be eligible for them in three weeks. When that three weeks was up, I went to sign up and the system would not allow me to.
The enrollment options on the Wire were grayed out and didn't link to anything. They told me they would work on it, but it's been three months now. They blamed the night manager for not officially making me full time when he started scheduling me for five days a week and have implied that I will have to wait for open enrollment.
That night manager had been trying to help me with another issue. I am trying to move my off days to two weekdays in a row to allow me to start working on projects again with my friend who is busy on weekends.
He started working towards moving someone to grocery with me since I've been working it mostly by myself since January and he wanted to train that person on a lift so they could work the days I had been trying to get off on weekdays.
That all came to a grinding halt when the night manager was suddenly fired. The new night manager talked to us about filling out new availability sheets on his first night, but a few shifts later, we were informed that we are expected to all have seven day availability. I talked to the new night manager and told him what I had been trying to work out. He said he needed better coverage on the schedule (though they haven't hired anyone new since December) and he needed me to have two separate days off. I told him it would be hard to make that work and I needed two weekdays off in a row.
Today, I checked my schedule and he scheduled me to have Saturday and Sunday off. I feel so ungrateful because I know some people would kill to have a whole weekend off, but it's the exact opposite of what we talked about and I'm having difficulty speaking to the new night manager while controlling my anger.
So, I'm getting to the point where I don't even feel the urge to try to meet expectations anymore. I can't get insurance. I can't get the schedule I need. Our shift is severely understaffed but nobody in management is interested in hiring anyone. We don't have an HR rep anymore, so I can't talk to them. Is Global Ethics going to give a shit or should I just keep it to myself?
I'd tell it to my therapist, but I don't have the insurance to see one.
Posted Apr 9, 2019, 11:37 AM UTC
What you need to understand about this is 3 things:
1: There are SHIT candidates applying to work right now. Convicts, felons, druggies, dopers, and people with zero work history or "job hoppers" who've already been fired from Sam's for- You guessed it: Job Abandonment-3 Days No Call/No Show are the quality of people applying right now. Hiring a "warm body" isn't a good idea. That "warm body" ends up fucking over the entire Club because they waste more time and manhours having to be "babysat" or disciplined because they're a shithead who can't grow up. Or they steal from us. Or they quit when they're scheduled to open in a key area. It takes time to hire the right people.
2: Because of the overhauls they did in People - It takes twice as long to get a Background check back for an applicant. The new hire has to be signed off on, and approved by somebody at Home Office level. H.O. moved too slowly? Oh, that sucks, the brand new hire took a job offer from Target or [local grocery]
3: Market Managers keep dipping their dicks and vaginas into Club wage budgets and won't allow "swells" of budgets to hire more people. Blame the shitty Market Managers who keep sticking their organs into business that isn't theirs.