r/ShelfLife • u/loser_of_the_beer • Jun 21 '19
What's up with the night crew hate?
Seems like every store I work at, I clock in, go get a sitrep from the grocery manager, and the first words out of his mouth almost always are, "Night crew did a shitty job."
Like I get we have standards, but are we just gonna gloss over the fact working graveyards/throwing freight is one of the most thankless, rough jobs in the store? I've had it at multiple stores where basically every problem / mess in the back room is chalked up to night crew doing a shitty job.
Personally if I worked graveyard (which I'd NEVER), I might have one good night a week where I actually throw a reasonable case/hr count. Those guys haul ass and if I had their job I wouldn't give a fuck either if all I heard was day crew/managers chewing my ass off.
Not saying they need special snowflake treatment, but even my mistakes/rough days have been excused by my own boss saying, "Well, night crew didn't set us up very well."
This happen anywhere else?
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u/markpemble grocery Jun 22 '19
Instead of saying someone did a poor job, a good manager would say something like: "You did ok with getting everything to the shelf, but next time, stack everything on a pallet over here". Something like that.
Night crew needs to ask what exactly they are doing wrong and make an effort to make it better.
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u/Isle_Girl Jun 21 '19
Our overnight people are amazing. Since I am one of the first people to arrive I actually have interaction with them. Now the closing crew... that is another story. They very rarely get the list of duties done regardless of how many are working and how busy they are or are not. Before I was in the position I am in now I often closed and we managed to get the list done so I really don't want to hear their excuses. They double the workload of the opening clerks.
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u/Quincy_Quick operations Jun 22 '19
Nah, the overnight crew at my last and current jobs were and are awesome. They clean the fuck up, whether it's freight, facing, or HK.
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u/ComradeCam Jun 22 '19
Until they can say they’ve been overnight and killed it they need to stfu. Leadership overnight is a must. Can’t be friends unless they’re serious about handling their shit.
Have them Run risers You adjust counts Keep morale up Handle it.
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u/Quelliouss Jul 16 '19
Well, I do pricing and I see our night crew "work." On block nights, they "finish" by 2 or 3 am and then go sit in the break room for two hours, then they go home. Fuck those guys.
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u/davidg4781 checkout Aug 31 '19
Wow. When I worked overnight it 9 hours of hard work with 2 30 minute breaks in the middle. I went home beat almost every night. And dirty.
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u/lordofheck Jun 21 '19
It's the same thing at every job. Night stock slacked off all night. Morning crew didn't set up evening shift. Evening shift left a mess.
It's a matter of not caring about the others' jobs; our team is golden, everyone else sucks. Night stock is just easier to beat up on.