At her store, you could do it. Some do. You can stand at the other end where she puts things after scanning them and put them in your cart. Anyway the point wasn’t about whether they should or shouldn’t be—just pointing out how much more physically demanding being a cashier there is then elsewhere.
Well, yes, for sure. But also… yes. I employ a lot of people, as I’ve mentioned, I have for years. When someone’s on the countdown, either because they’re voluntarily leaving, or getting laid off after a retention period, I always remove them from future facing emails, surveys, what have you.
Sure, it potentially keeps some negative detail out of my responses, but also I don’t want to pour salt in the wound either. If I were getting let go, I’d at least consider being insulted by an employee survey.
The two TJs where I shop regularly are just straight-through cashier stations, similar to those of other grocery stores. I bag from the customer’s side where the credit card point-of-sale terminal sits.
My daughter’s main TJs, OTOH, in NYC is much harder to assist with bagging - cashier stations are modular, set side-by-side along a single long exit aisle, and self-contained so the cashier can reach everything in the station. That’s a hard place to assist with bagging. Perhaps that’s more typical of store layouts.
It’s still unethical to exclude current employees from the survey. FWIW, my input would not have been wholly from my upcoming termination; but I have been dissatisfied for an entire year, and any current negative feelings would not have moved the needle.
It’s been policy at the last three places I’ve worked so unethical? I won’t make a call either way. Common? In my experience yes. Gathering input from people on a timeline for separation is the scope of the exit interview, IMO.
Yes. The whole point of the survey (which the company makes money from) is to get honest employee opinions. As an honest person, I feel that it is unethical to withhold my input that I have been assessing for almost a year before I was told I would be terminated, so as to provide a false impression to the survey-taker for monetary gain. Have my coworkers’ opinions gone down since last year? I don’t know.
where I work, that is not the point of the survey. The point is for leaders to demonstrate that they got Good Scores so they can earn a bonus. How they get those scores is irrelevant—as long as the chart slopes upward, management is happy.
I’ll agree with that. The point of the survey to the managers is to show evidence that they are good managers. But the point of Gallup, et al., is to gather actual opinions. I’ve been waiting a year to tell them I felt less-appreciated, and now I can’t. 
I’ve been to meetings where HR goes through the survey results. Any negative comments are considered to be from troublemakers, bad employees and thus can be ignored.
I’ve seen them tag negative comments as a win, not recognizing sarcasm apparently: “So glad they reduced the number of holidays. Didn’t want to spend them with my family anyway” or something along those lines was put in the ‘positive’ column.
Ditto, except it’s hard at my local grocery store, too. (Which employees baggers in addition to cashiers, so they obviously don’t expect customers to bag groceries.) I prefer to bag my own groceries, as i would like to do it differently from how the employees do it, but that’s really not an option at my local stores.
See, i expect the cashier to bag items. That’s absolutely the norm where i live.
I don’t understand how it’s unethical. I was disappointed not to get an exit interview, when i voluntarily retired, because there were things i wanted to complain about. I don’t recall whether i got routine employee surveys. (Probably, we had them much more often than annually.)
Huh? No, not anyplace I’ve worked. I didn’t even understand how that would work.
Also, my managers were judged on the % of employees who replied. (Higher is better.) So if i was excluded, it was by HR, not by my manager.
it’s not the bagging: it’s the lifting of every one of them out of a cart and putting the bags back in. Putting the stuff in the bags is the easy part. It’s a LOT of bending over every day. And the number of people who keep their young children in the cart –not the seat that’s meant for that, I mean in the actual cart with the groceries– and make you reach a round them to get to the groceries is truly amazing.
In my orgs, that’s the domain of the exit interview. Personally I would want that info in a separate data stream. You wouldn’t do this, but I’ve had an up-front seat for people leaving using forms to submit wild accusations, inappropriate personal commentary, and generally corrosive responses that may have some basis in fact but need a human to turn into a dialog that a survey can’t get to.
Yeah, my daughter quit her job as a grocery bagger at the local supermarket for something less physical – and “less physical” was a primary goal. (She ended up tutoring math.) But it’s an ordinary part of the job for cashiers at most places where i shop. So I’m surprised you are calling it out. My guess is it varies by region.
We’ve both worked at normal grocery stores, where the customer empties the cart onto the conveyor belt and puts the full bags back in the cart. TJ is different, as you have to bend over in to the cart and take the groceries out as the cashier, then bend over to put them all back in.. It’s the constant bending and reaching into the cart especially with heavy items. It’s not the actual bagging.
Yes, every trader Joe’s I’ve shopped at is set up for the cashier to do all the grocery-moving, and is not designed to let the customer easily take any part of that task.
I’ve had a couple/three notices that I wasn’t selected to interview for jobs I’ve applied to. The one that I received this morning said I ‘didn’t make it to the next round’. Their system could have put it more delicately.
I have a one-hour Zoom meeting with Career Horizons tomorrow at 13 o’clock. The company is paying for three hours of their services.
I’ve had my first session with Career Horizons. They’re going to tweak my résumé and my LinkedIn profile. (He didn’t have anything bad to say about my résumé; only that it’s ‘good’ and that I hit all of the points, but not ‘great’. Probably don’t need to go back to 1983, as that might trigger age discrimination.) He sent me notes on how I can put a boolean search into Indeed, and pointed me to other job sources.
I’m glad.