Anyone else FT hired without open availability now being told they must have open availability or go to PT because of Kronos?
10 replies (most recent on top)
You are a perfect example of why they are doing this. You make too much money. They can hire 3 or 4 part time people to replace you. They will be terrible and negatively effect our public image but they will maybe get slightly more work done for less money.
In my store, I did not find out about the 70% availability until my Produce ATL handed me the form to fill yesterday. Yep.
Been with WFM for 12+ years and have called out maybe twice in all that time. But with my schedule now becoming a weekly c-ap shoot, guess what?
Meanwhile. we still have store scan specialists. Other grocery stores have replaced this job with a roomba.
What is especially dumb about this is we don't have enough TM's to actually complete the tasks we have to do every day and our labor is too low to hire anyone, but because most of our team has childcare, transportation, school etc. we will have to give them fewer hours even though we desperately need more help whenever we can get it.
Eventually if your availability is not fully open you’ll get less hours but still be FT. Lets say between 30-35hrs/wk if your schedule is not fully open. Some companies only consider you FT if you work more than 36hrs/wk so dont be surprised if that happens down the road.
ahhh good to see our corporate overlords and the stockholders wish to become more corpulent off our sweaty,starving carcasses.....seriously...how do the amazon chumps,who are supposed to be genius at logistics and planning cant design a labor program that factors in that employees need 8hours of sleep a day and subtract that from the total hours per week...??and when can the office/regional id–ts work under these hodge podge schedules to make them feel as one of the shared fate team members.....
The new outline for the departments looks wack AF. In my department it said we were over by 5 full timers. So that’s like over half the team. Im so glad I’m only sticking this out through school!
Very eloquent! ...and accurate.
What a clever way to decrease the numbers of TMs who might need to use benefits...or have dependants who would use them, ftm.
First, they came for those with family obligations, but I did not speak out as I was single and childless
Then, they came for those with prior medical conditions
Still I did not speak out as I was young and healthy
Then, they came for those who were opinionated and not a good "culture fit" but I did not know what a healthy culture was so I didn't understand enough to have an opinion
When they came for me there were no jobs left as every business was putting numbers before people and I now had
A family
Medical needs
And an opinion about why
This is bad for communities
And unsustainable behavior
And not worthy of any corporate citizen
You don't need open availability just 70%.
This has been well known for quite some time now. Your TL should have sat every tm down and had this talk months ago.
When did you get hired? This had been announced in like August or a little later that we need 70% availability from FT's. On my team leadership has 100% availability and our FT TM's have about 65%. Kronos does not include buyers or team trainers in the % report I guess because that would bring the % up too much?
But yes, they tell us that for Kronos to work properly every full timer needs to have 70% availability. This means no one should ever get hired full time who has two jobs, families, kids, school, church or charity work, or any other extra curricular activity.
Grocery has the longest hours where there are people working. We have Tm's from midnight til midnight most days. But for a normal random FT Tm that has no title or overnight they can work anywhere from 5 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. That's 17.5 hours a day/122.5 hours a week that you need to be able to be scheduled because Kronos does not care about your circadian rhythm. You will get opens and closes in the same week. 70% is 12.25 hours a day or 88.75 you need to be able to work. So basically that is open availability lols. Not including overnights and buyers who arrive early. For other teams it would be slightly less demanding but not much.