At my store they recently implemented a new rule that the 7 minute grace period can only be used once a week. Anything after that will result in a tm receiving a quarter point for attendance, even if it is 1 minute past your scheduled start time. According to leadership, the grace period was being abused. They seem to not understand that, especially in the early morning, it can sometimes take up to 10 minutes to get your temperature checked as half the time there is nobody around to take the temps. We were told to " just show up earlier", yet we are also not allowed to punch in early. Is anyone else having this happen in their store?
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At my store before corona we had tms abusing time and attendance, and not going on lunch breaks. During the corona non enforcement of policy those same tms abused it at the expense of others. Now that the policy is supposed to in "effect" their back to their old tricks. Leadership it seems likes to protect them.
With all the people who are out of work -get rid of these tms and leadership and hire people who really want to work.
If you think you have problems here, you should go to the Barnes & Noble page and read the scandals going on there. It's better than a reality show!
The grace period in the NE is 10 minutes & nobody really enforces that unless they are just trying to get rid of you. Before that i think there needs to be some sort of coaching & written documentation before written somebody up for abusing the grace period.
They drag out the process so the person will leave before anything actually is done about it. They do not care about the well being of TMs its all about profit anyone telling you otherwise is a liar or a fool. Cleaning in stores is much more relaxed as well as store capacity being kept low has gone out the window. TM and customers are never told to cover their mouth and noses. It is highly unlikely WF or Amazon are not monitoring this site. They just choose to ignore the things being said.
We actually have to call our EC of the region before we’re allowed to call the police if someone refuses to wear the mask or makes a scene in the store.
We literally have to get permission to call the police, totally out of anybody in the stores hands.
I just came here from the Barnes & Noble page to see if your company was as pathetic as ours is.
My store has not had a manned temp station ever. Everyone takes their own temp. I don't know why we are able to get away with it. We get regional visitors and no one says anything. Also a few TLs never have masks on in the back.
OP,
That is really odd. I've worked officially at 3 stores, helped open several more and have worked occasionally at a couple others before hours, and they have all either had a keypad to enter a code or an rfid card to get in. I'm not saying there aren't stores without a way to get in before hours but given the fact that so many TM's work so before store open, i highly doubt there are any stores that don't have a way to enter before hours (correct me if I'm wrong)
If i get to the temp station and no one is there, there is no way I'm going to get blamed for being late. We have a log for such instances. If your store leadership is hounding you this hard you should go to your HR person because your leadership is trying to get rid of you. They may or may not have good reason to fire you but it looks like they are looking for a reason.
Cause a fuss "accidently" knock over the camera. If they need to replace it maybe they will keep a better eye on it and have somebody be there.
OP here. At my store we have to ring a bell to be let into the building ( the doors are locked until 8 am) and have our temp taken with an infrared camara. We are not allowed to temp ourselves. In the early morning there is supposed to be a TM assigned to do all this, but usually they are in their department working and don't hear the bell or nobody actually bothered to assign a person to do it that day. It is not uncommon to stand outside ringing the bell over and over. This is not something that has happened once or twice, but an ongoing issue. Maybe I am not as dedicated as some of you are, but I don't think people should have to show up a half-hour before their shift hoping that someone will let them in so they can punch in on time.
Pfff. The STL or TMSS have no power over who they can fire over matters like this. They have to go through their regional HR people and at least in our metro, they are insanely lenient. They won't even consider separating someone even if they clock in @ :07 past the hour every shift for months and every lunch break is 45 minutes. We've tried. Our STL, ASTL's & TMSS have been powerless to separate TM's who are on every possible kind of final and beyond. We've had at least 3 TM's recently with more than 6 points (unrelated to COVID point forgiveness) but they always get saved but some ridiculous technicality.
Everything is at the STLs discretion the GIG doesn't mean anything WF is an at will company. You have no rights unless you are being discriminated against.
It can't possibly take 10 minutes to get your temp checked. The longest it's ever taken at my store is maybe 10 seconds. If no one is covering the temp station just temp yourself.
You must be in a different region than me because we don't have quarter points.
You can clock in per the GIG no more than 5 minutes early unless you have permission but no one is going to care or even notice if you clock in 10 minutes early. If you tried to come in 30 minutes early and leave early that would be something that wold disrupt coverage and would not be tolerated.
The GIG book says this on the matter:
Accountability Excessive absenteeism, partial absences, abuse of the grace period, failure to properly report your attendance and unacceptable attendance “patterns” place a burden on other Team Members and are performance-related measures that impact your reliability and productivity. These performance-related measures will contribute to corrective action up to and including discharge.Store/facility leadership may also consider special or extenuating circumstances when determining corrective action and has the right to exercise discretion in accelerating this policy after consultation with a Team Member Services Coordinator.
My store/regional TMSS is extremly lenient with this rule as we have a few TM's that clock in @ :07 nearly every shift for years and we have not been able to escalate to a point of separation though we have tried.
If you have "qaurter points" that sound like an unofficial rule your store leadership is doing. IT would probably be better if the just gave you a c.s., uww, final then separation as if it was a performance or productivity issue.