The Woolworths Thread (14 Viewers)

[quick90]

YEARSSFHH!!!! we are closed Friday, Sunday & Monday. Being in backwards state QLD sometimes has its benefits.

What days are yous open/working?

I'm in QLD, & my store is only closed friday...

 

[nanakid12]

Backwards local council then I guess... haha.

 

[BSammy]

This is from the union letter that was in the tearoom. Must be a state thing.

http://cl.ly/3h0h2J2v10382N3b3J2w/IMG_1820.JPG

Yeah, it is a state thing, at least that version of it is, I don't know if there's others.
It mentions the VIC Premier by name, something which I choose not to do.

 

[BSammy]

Question. Clause 7.7.3 of the national agreement.

"7.7.3 A full-time or part-time employee shall be entitled to the above provisions
where the employee works an alternating roster and the public holiday falls on
a day on which the employee works in any week of their roster cycle. "

(the context is public holiday on a non working day, the above provision saying that full timers and part timers who work an average of 5 days a week get an additional days pay or a day in lieu etc)

Does this mean that I should get an extra days pay for good friday if i work a 4 week roster with two fridays, but good friday isn't my friday on?
My roster is two weeks of Wed-Sat, and then two weeks of Wed-Thu + Sat. So it's less that 5 days a week. but there are fridays there.

I'm pretty sure it does, i'm not sure if my SSO is on my side on this one however. Opinions?

 

[T 360]

Woo! Closed Friday,Sunday & Monday (But open Saturday for a nightmare day )

Pissed me off so much last night. We close at 9 (9.05 by the time customers leave).9:02,the trolley boys turn up. "Leave your doors up. We need to put trolleys inside.". 9.20,they finally finish,we can close the doors and I can start emptying The SCO.FFS

 

[iMatthew]

Woo! Closed Friday,Sunday & Monday (But open Saturday for a nightmare day )

Pissed me off so much last night. We close at 9 (9.05 by the time customers leave).9:02,the trolley boys turn up. "Leave your doors up. We need to put trolleys inside.". 9.20,they finally finish,we can close the doors and I can start emptying The SCO.FFS

Oh that would piss me off! Ours usually don't work after 8/9pm which is good because we close at 10.

 

[T 360]

Oh that would piss me off! Ours usually don't work after 8/9pm which is good because we close at 10.

It did. But the Supervisor said it was ok because they told her. Yeah,ok for her. She could do her work. She didn't have to wait for them to finish to start!

 

[T 360]

Oh that would piss me off! Ours usually don't work after 8/9pm which is good because we close at 10.

It did. But the Supervisor said it was ok because they told her. Yeah,ok for her. She could do her work. She didn't have to wait for them to finish to start!

 

[BSammy]

Woo! Closed Friday,Sunday & Monday (But open Saturday for a nightmare day )

Pissed me off so much last night. We close at 9 (9.05 by the time customers leave).9:02,the trolley boys turn up. "Leave your doors up. We need to put trolleys inside.". 9.20,they finally finish,we can close the doors and I can start emptying The SCO.FFS

Just as long as you signed off later than usual, gotta get paid man gotta get paid.

 

[ClassOf2013]

With Woolworths, how do you apply? Their website says they only have one store in the whole of Sydney that is hiring for "store operations" (ie checkout, stacking shelves etc), which sounds pretty unlikely, given that they have hundreds of stores in Sydney. Is it like Coles where "store operations" roles are not advertised on the site?

 

[iMatthew]

With Woolworths, how do you apply? Their website says they only have one store in the whole of Sydney that is hiring for "store operations" (ie checkout, stacking shelves etc), which sounds pretty unlikely, given that they have hundreds of stores in Sydney. Is it like Coles where "store operations" roles are not advertised on the site?

There are 90 jobs going in the whole of NSW and 3 in the CBD area. Any vacant positions are always advertised on the website. You're probably searching incorrectly or something.

 

[the way to go]

i think my store would have loved to be open on the sunday, but the westfield we're in was closed and we would have had to pay for our whole floor to be opened :\ got more than enough hours of public holiday rate pay though

im really curious about SCO10 now after reading little bits from here, im a newly promoted service supervisor, (and the youngest in front end, so everybody just absolutely loves the fact i got promoted over them... but thats another issue i guess) and i really wanna know where to find the SCO10 doc, as i have quite a fondness for my sco machines haha

i have access to storenet (at least thats what the icon says) but cant see a search function, it just lists the WOW branches... any help?

 

[the way to go]

With Woolworths, how do you apply? Their website says they only have one store in the whole of Sydney that is hiring for "store operations" (ie checkout, stacking shelves etc), which sounds pretty unlikely, given that they have hundreds of stores in Sydney. Is it like Coles where "store operations" roles are not advertised on the site?

i wouldnt be surprised if there arnt too many places available at the moment, most stores would have just employed more people for over easter, i know mine did.

 

[bensneddon]

i think my store would have loved to be open on the sunday, but the westfield we're in was closed and we would have had to pay for our whole floor to be opened :\ got more than enough hours of public holiday rate pay though

im really curious about SCO10 now after reading little bits from here, im a newly promoted service supervisor, (and the youngest in front end, so everybody just absolutely loves the fact i got promoted over them... but thats another issue i guess) and i really wanna know where to find the SCO10 doc, as i have quite a fondness for my sco machines haha

i have access to storenet (at least thats what the icon says) but cant see a search function, it just lists the WOW branches... any help?

Go to Supermarkets > Policies and Procedures

 

[nanakid12]

, im a newly promoted service supervisor, (and the youngest in front end, so everybody just absolutely loves the fact i got promoted over them... but thats another issue i guess) and i really wanna know where to find the SCO10 doc, as i have quite a fondness for my sco machines haha

i have access to storenet (at least thats what the icon says) but cant see a search function, it just lists the WOW branches... any help?

what bensneddon said then it says CLICK HERE TO SEARCH FOR A DOCUMENT. Easy enuf.

How old are you and how long have you been with woolies? I was promoted to a supervisor exactly one year ago to this very day I was 16 at the time, and had been with woolies for 2.5 years. But I remember a year after I started, a 15 year old girl who had been with us for 4 months got promoted, and everyone was EXTREMELY shitty. Including me, but I got over it after a week. She turned out to be one of the better sort too

Ive found this thread extremely useful for when I'm supervising ( like resetting eftpos machines, little shortcuts and stuff like that).

Anyways, Easter Saturday for me was quite not-really but sorta busy. I got in trouble from a lady who still owed me 5 cents "OOOOOOHH FIVE CENTS, WHAT A DIFFERENCE". Yes you stroppy scrag, they aren't your cigarettes until you pay properly.

 

[iMatthew]

Easter Sunday was one of the quietest days of the year. Ended up deep cleaning registers at 8pm..
Today was fucking disgusting though. We had more staff on yesterday and today was three times more busy. I was the only operator initially (started at 8.30), next operator was rostered to start at 10pm. She no showed and the next person to start was at 12pm. Yep, we got fucked badly.
Had to call some people in, still heaps down though. Every manager was on register for 3 hours, was insane. ASM, Longlife mgr, duty manager, longlife boys, you name it. There was 2 service staff out of all those people on register lol. Ended up going home at 4pm.

I don't, however, understand why we had LESS staff rostered than yesterday and it was three times more busy than yesterday. Sense not make.

BOS has helped me greatly, wouldn't know all these little tricks without it. I asked for liquor register access and CSM replies "I can't do that", I'm like "lol yes you can, let me show you".
Can't believe she didn't now how (or that she COULD) alter checkout banks.

 

[the way to go]

How old are you and how long have you been with woolies? I was promoted to a supervisor exactly one year ago to this very day I was 16 at the time, and had been with woolies for 2.5 years. But I remember a year after I started, a 15 year old girl who had been with us for 4 months got promoted, and everyone was EXTREMELY shitty. Including me, but I got over it after a week. She turned out to be one of the better sort too

Ive found this thread extremely useful for when I'm supervising ( like resetting eftpos machines, little shortcuts and stuff like that).

19, and exactly 1 year this week, im actually shocked that im still the youngest, and at 19! :S

useful tips you say..? any particularly good ones? 881 pages is a lot to read through! haha

edit: other supervisors: supervision shifts pay more right? so how does it appear on your pay slip? and do they still state job title as "service cashier"? cause i'm pretty sure i havnt been paid for any of my supervision shifts yet. not happy.

 

[iMatthew]

19, and exactly 1 year this week, im actually shocked that im still the youngest, and at 19! :S

useful tips you say..? any particularly good ones? 881 pages is a lot to read through! haha

edit: other supervisors: supervision shifts pay more right? so how does it appear on your pay slip? and do they still state job title as "service cashier"? cause i'm pretty sure i havnt been paid for any of my supervision shifts yet. not happy.

Your store must be copping it heavily with expensive wages if everybody is almost on the full adult wage! We would die if we didn't have a floor full of 15 year olds on Sunday lol.
When paid grade 4 supervision, there is nothing in the payslip that says that. The only thing that changes is the pay rate.

That is the 20 year old grade 4 wage which you should probably get too.

 

[the way to go]

Your store must be copping it heavily with expensive wages if everybody is almost on the full adult wage! We would die if we didn't have a floor full of 15 year olds on Sunday lol.
When paid grade 4 supervision, there is nothing in the payslip that says that. The only thing that changes is the pay rate.

That is the 20 year old grade 4 wage which you should probably get too.

do you only get paid that rate for the amount of time you're actually rostered to supervise or for all shifts?

i know in nsw, "service supervisor" comes under grade 3, and being 19, i only get 80% of the adult wage...

i might have to do some maths.

 

[iMatthew]

That's my supervision wage, my normal operator wage is about $13ph. Supervision/office cashier/duty mgr is all grade 4 in Victoria.