I really need to vent about this! I am beyond pissed off with my job. I work in the grocery department at a grocery store. In August 2024 our receiver. My manager asked me if I’d be interested in doing her job. Like a dummy, I said yes. Receiving is basically an inventory clerk. It’s labeled the easiest job in the store. It is not the easiest job at all! I absolutely hated it! Dealing with drivers is the worst! You have to pay close attention to detail, keep track of inventory, make sure your counts are right, and stock shelves too. So they basically have you doing a lot of extra work since it’s so easy. My raise in December for getting FT status and job class change from stock clerk to dsd was a whole $0.85… my fellow coworkers got one raise for FT, then a separate $1.00 raise for job class change to grs.
I’m at a new store now and since I know how to receive, I’ve become the backup receiver on top of a stock clerk. I am also learning another skill: tags to backup the tag clerk. All for what? I doubt my raise will be near $1.00 come evaluations. I’m just so pissed off after finding out what other people made. I’m not a bad worker.
Never do a job deemed the easiest, they don’t respect you or care about the job. Guess what? They guy they replaced me with (who was making like $2 more than me an hour) couldn’t even do it. They had to replace him.
Planning my escape out of retail hell…
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Are you union? If not, that’s your problem.
I personally liked being a receiver more than my older positions. Instead of having to deal with people, I was mostly on my own doing inventory tasks with headphones on.
This sounds a lot like Charge Nurse in a hospital. Do you have time to take a course in Phlebotomy? Having these skills in the Medical community is SUPER prized and they pay very very well. Phlebotomy is a few months of lecture and labs and then your foot is in the door. Or imaging, but radiology is a much more involved school. With your skills you could climb the ladder like a rocket.