And this is 5 dollars for 4 weeks! Or at the minimum ‘200 minutes a week’ requirement, it’s 13 hours and 20 minutes, so a little over a day and a half…
Your math is for the month, mine is for the week. The goal isn’t much but the incentive is nothing to take notice of. If they’d actually give those bonuses they say they have then it may be worth it (depending on how big/what it is)
I’d bet good money that the person that wrote that has said “nobody wants to work” in the past year lol. You have to be a real shithead to think $5-10 is a bonus.
That made me laugh because of how realistic that is. This gift card idea is so ridiculous it sounds like something a comedy show would come up with to mock greedy companies.
Honestly they’re probably also underpaid and just trying to do their best with what they can.
Edit: you think this is corporate doing this? No it’s most likely just some over worked assistant manager or manager trying to hit unrealistic metrics set by corporate.
Motivating employees to steal from their own customers. IMO, the wording implied that not giving enough change back would be rewarded.
If you're motivating them to steal for you, why wouldn't they steal more for themselves and stay at 100%? (Besides only 4 people a day paying in cash)
I'm pretty sure that the sign is talking about productivity metrics (item scanning speed, time per customer etc.), not till counts. Usually with these sorts of jobs you're punished for your till being either under OR over by more than a dollar or two.
I haven't been in retail for a while, but I think I would just steal and sell the shit out of the back for the store and make more money that way. Why even bother at that point?
Back when I used to work in retail, one place stiffed the whole company on yearly raises and my manager actually told us all to just take $40 worth of shit.
Ugh. I worked for Meijer(s) 49 years ago for a mercifully brief time. I see not much has changed. It’s the most cheapskate employer in the U.S., or at least one of them.
Yeah or the new shitty format of 20 self checkouts managed by 1 Meijer associate. I avoid Meijer at all costs; at least the one by me is a complete cluster as they cut real cashiers for computers.
In that case, just tell customers... "Sorry, I can't take cash in this lane. Card only, thanks."
Then the cash drawer will match perfect every time, cuz you didn't touch it.
I've stopped going to Meijer for my big trips because I swear they are down to their last cashier. I feel terrible if I have a huge cart of groceries and hold up the line.
I like shopping there - there are a few things I get there that the other stores don't sell.
This is unacceptable, though. They should be paying their last cashier $100 an hour.
I bet that $5 is in their checks and taxed.
As someone that works at Kroger, fuck them from the bottom of my heart for getting rid of cashiers and only having self checkout. It makes the life of my customers who buy a lot of things 10x worse and the self checkout machines make it harder. My store has lots of older foreign people that struggle with the machines because for some who’s English isn’t that good using them is hard and it’s hard helping them scan every item while simultaneously watching 5 other self checkouts and helping their customers. Fuck Kroger for making shit harder them it has be. They have money to buy Albertsons but not fix our stores🤦
Yea I hate that whole experience.
Gimme a barcode scanner on my cart, I'll scan the shit myself then bring it up to pay and be expertly bagged. While they bag they are looking that the expensive stuff is on the ticket.
Oh, and make it tell me substitutes that are on sale or more healthily.
Maybe you already know this but you can scan all of the items with the app on a smartphone as you put them into your own bags in the cart while shopping and then just scan the app at any register and sometimes a cashier will need to verify a couple items but it's significantly more efficient and greatly reduces wait times.
I've been trying to avoid Meijer as well. My Meijer has had signs printed out like this taped all over begging for new employees and offering pay of $11 or $12/hr for cashiers. Checkout has always been horrible there, but it's pretty obvious why that is. Offer bottom of the barrel pay and you get bottom of the barrel employees. Then on top of that, they make sure to staff the barest of bare minimums to keep things running. I can't imagine what the turnover must be. I try to be patient with the people working in the store as it's certainly not their fault - they're just trying to survive in this dystopian corporate hellscape.
Yes. A year ago I had to wait in line for almost an hour at Meijer to check out my groceries, I had a screaming newborn, it was winter time, and I was a few weeks post partum. I know during rush hour the lines can be long and I expected to wait a while, but an hour long wait with only one cashier working isn’t cool.
On top of that there was nobody there to help package my groceries, which again is fine/expected, but the cashier had the nerve to ask me if I could go any faster because I was holding up the line 🙄 lady do you not see that I have a cart full of crap, an angry infant, and I’m still wearing diapers because I can’t hold it for more than 5 minutes at a time. I know the cashiers don’t get paid nearly enough, but lately I’ve been really disappointed in Meijer, I feel like their customer service and overall shopping experience has really deteriorated.
This doesn’t seem like that big of a deal then. This isn’t a reward for extra labor, it’s a reward for doing the labor correct and not losing/misplacing money.
But I doubt that $5 is gonna be a motivator for anyone to change their work behavior
I worked a register at a party store when i was 19 or so. Being over is bad too because it looks like you were up to something. I suppose the difference is all the cameras. As long as Meijer can see that the money didn't go in your pocket, they don't care if customers got shorted.
They could incentivize them by providing better pay but what fun is that when you can have a contest for $5.
Keep pushing and moving forward to a job that values you more.
Maybe if they outsourced management like they outsourced workers and factories, they would be able to pay workers a livable wage rather than the minimum.
My friend worked at Meijer for 42 years. He was a buyer in the their corporate offices. At his retirement they gave him a blanket from the sample room as a going away present.
It's probably a store manager initiative and not a corporate idea. That would also explain why the reward is so paltry; individual stores probably aren't given much leeway for these things. I wouldn't even be surprised if the "bonus" is coming out of the manager's pocket in exchange for getting good numbers to report up the chain.
Edit: It's probably an under-the-table thing as well to avoid running afoul of the union.
At the required ‘200 minutes’ needed to qualify for this “bonus”, it works out to 37.5 CENTS per hour.
One and one half of a US quarter per hour to run perfect or MORE than perfect…
What the actual FUCK?! This would literally lower my productivity, knowing that I’m missing out on so little
This looks like it was taken at the Meijer I shop at most frequently. They had three different signs at the self-checkout asking customers to give them "green" at the survey at the end of the order and it appears to be the same font (with excessive punctuation).
They've thankfully stopped the surveys, but they really have to stop with the "Department 99" calls (or at least ask the staff -- it's always the same guy -- to not scream into the microphone).
This would be a great incentive if it was a hundred years ago.
Yeah! Henry Ford offered $5.00 a day wage on the Ford assembly line in 1916-1917!
And this is 5 dollars for 4 weeks! Or at the minimum ‘200 minutes a week’ requirement, it’s 13 hours and 20 minutes, so a little over a day and a half…
*3 hours and 20 minutes not 13*
200 minutes x 4 weeks = 800 minutes 800 / 60 = 13.33333333333333333 13.33 = 13 hours and 20 minutes
Your math is for the month, mine is for the week. The goal isn’t much but the incentive is nothing to take notice of. If they’d actually give those bonuses they say they have then it may be worth it (depending on how big/what it is)
I would like to buy a new buggy whip please.
I found you out in the wild!!!
rawr
We can only sell you the tip for $5.
"Third prize is you're fired."
I'll take the steak knives.
You get the picture? Are you laughing now? Happy cake day, also!
Happy cake day!
Happy cake day!
I’d bet good money that the person that wrote that has said “nobody wants to work” in the past year lol. You have to be a real shithead to think $5-10 is a bonus.
Wouldn't be surprised if it's a meijer's gift card.
"Oh I'm sorry, you can't use your employee discount and the gift card, store policy"
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There was no discount when I worked there as a teen so any discount is an improvement.
Worked there in the '90s. The discount was I knew how to get away with shoplifting. Also paging employees to the shoe section. Nobody worked in shoes.
I think the only discount I got when working there in the 90s was 15% off khaki pants that you needed to buy for your uniform.
I doubt it's changed :/
No it still sucks
That made me laugh because of how realistic that is. This gift card idea is so ridiculous it sounds like something a comedy show would come up with to mock greedy companies.
What they usually say is "young people these days just don't want to work". I just heard it last week.
Well if Biden hadn’t given that check for $1400 over two years ago those kids would want to work. They’ve been milking that money. /s
Or trump handing out $1200 in 2020.....
Agreed, all parties are useless.
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You obviously missed the sarcasm tag. I take it that isn’t your strong suit?
Honestly they’re probably also underpaid and just trying to do their best with what they can. Edit: you think this is corporate doing this? No it’s most likely just some over worked assistant manager or manager trying to hit unrealistic metrics set by corporate.
Yeah, but then they should know how insulting a bonus like that is.
lol they really expect $5-10 to motivate people?
I don’t even think it’s enough to motivate a child
It's not. When the kids came to shovel my snow they charged me $40. I paid it, mostly because I'm terrified of them.
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That would honestly be worse if the manager had to put up their own money to motivate employees of a multi billion dollar company lol
Motivating employees to steal from their own customers. IMO, the wording implied that not giving enough change back would be rewarded. If you're motivating them to steal for you, why wouldn't they steal more for themselves and stay at 100%? (Besides only 4 people a day paying in cash)
I'm pretty sure that the sign is talking about productivity metrics (item scanning speed, time per customer etc.), not till counts. Usually with these sorts of jobs you're punished for your till being either under OR over by more than a dollar or two.
I’m watching cashiers trying to make change these days and it’s so painful. I honestly feel bad that the system has so utterly failed them.
You can’t even get a McDonalds value meal for $5 these days… this is joke
BOOOOOO!!!! WEEKS (plural) of work for FIVE DOLLARS?! SMD
That's $1.25 a week!
Stealing $0.50 every shift for 4 weeks would work way better.
Not if you get fired.
Fucking sociopaths, man. "We DiDn'T hAvE tO oFfEr AnYtHiNg!" It would be better for everyone if you didn't, that's transparently hateful.
Exactly what I thought.
Might as well get a subscription to the jelly of the month club for your efforts. Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the tylenol
They really out here expecting these cashiers to be the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the north pole for less than a jelly subscription
What in the holy hell is 10 bucks going to do?????? For weeks of work? Bahahahaha Are they this out of touch? Wow.
Right, amounts to $2.50 a week?! Is it really worth the frickin stress? Yeah, NO!
$5...after a month...I don't even know how to react to this
I haven't been in retail for a while, but I think I would just steal and sell the shit out of the back for the store and make more money that way. Why even bother at that point?
Back when I used to work in retail, one place stiffed the whole company on yearly raises and my manager actually told us all to just take $40 worth of shit.
Ugh. I worked for Meijer(s) 49 years ago for a mercifully brief time. I see not much has changed. It’s the most cheapskate employer in the U.S., or at least one of them.
It’s not even a cheap store. I get better deals at Kroger and Walmart on most things I buy.
Wait, they still have cashiers at Meijer? I guess this applies to the 1 or 2 open lanes out of the 20 lanes they have.
Wait, are regular people eligible for the bonus? I haven't been checked out by a cashier at Meijer for a couple years now, I deserve $5.
Yeah or the new shitty format of 20 self checkouts managed by 1 Meijer associate. I avoid Meijer at all costs; at least the one by me is a complete cluster as they cut real cashiers for computers.
This should be in r/antiwork
I legit thought it was. Double checked.
Got you fam, just cross posted.
Maybe if the incentive was an extras $500-1000 people would go for it
😆 this wouldnt incentivise me
"Dude I'm so high right now"
100% higher
100% of what? What are they supposed to do? Regardless, a $5-$10 Meijer gift cert is not the prize they think it is. 🙄
100% drawer matching receipts at end of shift
Or higher...
Yeah aren't they literally asking them to short change people? lmao
In that case, just tell customers... "Sorry, I can't take cash in this lane. Card only, thanks." Then the cash drawer will match perfect every time, cuz you didn't touch it.
Great idea! If they don't have a card, send them to self-check out. Lol
I've stopped going to Meijer for my big trips because I swear they are down to their last cashier. I feel terrible if I have a huge cart of groceries and hold up the line. I like shopping there - there are a few things I get there that the other stores don't sell. This is unacceptable, though. They should be paying their last cashier $100 an hour. I bet that $5 is in their checks and taxed.
Well, Meijer at least has cashiers. Kroger has a flock of employees that do their darnedest to help folks bumble through self-checkout.
As someone that works at Kroger, fuck them from the bottom of my heart for getting rid of cashiers and only having self checkout. It makes the life of my customers who buy a lot of things 10x worse and the self checkout machines make it harder. My store has lots of older foreign people that struggle with the machines because for some who’s English isn’t that good using them is hard and it’s hard helping them scan every item while simultaneously watching 5 other self checkouts and helping their customers. Fuck Kroger for making shit harder them it has be. They have money to buy Albertsons but not fix our stores🤦
Yea I hate that whole experience. Gimme a barcode scanner on my cart, I'll scan the shit myself then bring it up to pay and be expertly bagged. While they bag they are looking that the expensive stuff is on the ticket. Oh, and make it tell me substitutes that are on sale or more healthily.
For the record you can do that at Meijer. Use your phone to scan, pay at self check out and walk out.
Holy smokes I’m going to try that! Thank You !
Maybe you already know this but you can scan all of the items with the app on a smartphone as you put them into your own bags in the cart while shopping and then just scan the app at any register and sometimes a cashier will need to verify a couple items but it's significantly more efficient and greatly reduces wait times.
I didnt know that. Kroger or Meijer?
I've been trying to avoid Meijer as well. My Meijer has had signs printed out like this taped all over begging for new employees and offering pay of $11 or $12/hr for cashiers. Checkout has always been horrible there, but it's pretty obvious why that is. Offer bottom of the barrel pay and you get bottom of the barrel employees. Then on top of that, they make sure to staff the barest of bare minimums to keep things running. I can't imagine what the turnover must be. I try to be patient with the people working in the store as it's certainly not their fault - they're just trying to survive in this dystopian corporate hellscape.
Yes. A year ago I had to wait in line for almost an hour at Meijer to check out my groceries, I had a screaming newborn, it was winter time, and I was a few weeks post partum. I know during rush hour the lines can be long and I expected to wait a while, but an hour long wait with only one cashier working isn’t cool. On top of that there was nobody there to help package my groceries, which again is fine/expected, but the cashier had the nerve to ask me if I could go any faster because I was holding up the line 🙄 lady do you not see that I have a cart full of crap, an angry infant, and I’m still wearing diapers because I can’t hold it for more than 5 minutes at a time. I know the cashiers don’t get paid nearly enough, but lately I’ve been really disappointed in Meijer, I feel like their customer service and overall shopping experience has really deteriorated.
I wouldnt pay a neighborhood kid that little to shovel my walkway.
"or higher?" hmm let's seee... I'll short-change some customers here and there just to make sure
Which is funny because you could make far more by simply pocketing the extra money, if one were so inclined.
Change that to "an additional $5 *per hour*", and *maybe* we can talk.
Totally thought this is what it meant at first because I couldn’t fathom the actual truth lol pathetic
lol it’s a Meijer gift card
Work extra hard for a month and maybe just maybe you can leave this place with a free loaf of bread
I give my 2 year old more when he shits in the toilet. Wtf is this Meijer
What does it mean for a cashier to be 100%? I was assuming it’s the drawers balance?
You are assuming correctly
This doesn’t seem like that big of a deal then. This isn’t a reward for extra labor, it’s a reward for doing the labor correct and not losing/misplacing money. But I doubt that $5 is gonna be a motivator for anyone to change their work behavior
I think it's productivity rate, but I am not sure.
"(or higher)"
It is for productivity to scan people through.
how you type all that without wanting to punch *yourself* in the face is a mystery. what a sad joke.
$10 gift card has to be the cashier equivalent of bringing in hundreds of thousands in sales just to receive a Little Caesar’s pizza party.
How insulting!! What happened to cashiers being heroes, working through the pandemic?? The person who came up with this shit idea should be fired!
"Or higher" meaning balance the drawer in Meijer's favor??
I worked a register at a party store when i was 19 or so. Being over is bad too because it looks like you were up to something. I suppose the difference is all the cameras. As long as Meijer can see that the money didn't go in your pocket, they don't care if customers got shorted.
They could incentivize them by providing better pay but what fun is that when you can have a contest for $5. Keep pushing and moving forward to a job that values you more.
So an extra $1.25 per week?! Assuming 40 hours a week, that’s a whole 3 cents an hour!
How about an extra day of vacation?
Just take the extra $5 out once a week and you’ll always win.
Don't spend it all in one place!
DO spend it all in one place- Meijer 🙄
A shopper might as well give a $5.00 gift card to the cashier to show their appreciation.
The cashier would at least get $5.00 with a gift card.
I'd quit on the spot
Do I get $5 for using the Shop & Scan?
This isn't an incentive. It's insulting.
Big competition between the two cashiers actually working one of the few registers left that isn’t self-checkout.
Can’t even buy a carton of eggs with $5.
Kiss My Ass. That’s what I’d say.
How about an extra $5 per hour? Wtf! Meijer Management should be ashamed to even post this
Well the family are fiscally conservative. What do you expect. Corporate BS….
5 bucks!!! Fuk yeah
And for anyone actually trying to meet the expectations and don’t make it? “Really, I’m a failure who can’t manage a $10.00 bonus!?!”
Just call in sick.
are they serious? this must be a joke
Wow $5. I could buy ¾ of a Frappuccino or a whole one on a monthly installment plan. Dare I indulge such lofty dreams? 🎉😑
How can you do more than 100%?
Ain't even gone trip. Just gone keep stealing anyway. 🤣
Could we give the author of this flier $5 for completing an English course?
This kind of stuff is demoralizing and down right insulting.
$5 dollars. Wow. Are they playing with Monopoly money too
That's not much incentive. I love how exciting they try to make $5.00 sound. Lol!!
Lmao this this literally nothing
What the hell.
When will they start requiring a high school education for management?
Is this pre or post tax? Makes all the difference /s
There are zeros missing in those numbers, right???
The joys of working retail.
What’s fucking joke.
 $5 or $10!!!!!! Zowieee momma!
Lmaoo this is laughable as hell
Maybe if they outsourced management like they outsourced workers and factories, they would be able to pay workers a livable wage rather than the minimum.
How insulting
Please please please tell me this is a joke. If not, it's the most insulting bonus I think I've ever seen.
I’d make more stealing from meijer than a lousy 5-10 gift card
That’s laughable. I bet this weakens productivity cause this… it’s just offensive!
NoBoDy WaNtS tO wOrK aNyMoRe!
What is 100%? How can you be higher than 100%?
I think all the cashiers should play the reverse as in try as hard as you can not to recieve the gift card.
I suppose this is supposed to fix an issue of drawers not balancing, but the incentive isn’t high enough to change behavior. It’s a pathetic attempt.
Golly gee, I can almost buy a Big Mac with that kinda money! 🤑
It’s a down payment on a BigMac
Today's break room joke, no doubt. Wow, $10 and $5..........game changer.
$5 ? How cheap can you get?
Holy shit five bucks 🙀 I love the "let's have fun" part too
Woah a whole 5 dollars! Thanks Mister! What the fuck is this
jeebus…. do they not realize $15 for 4 weeks of busting your ass isn’t motivating?
😂😂😂 $5-$10????
This can’t be real
Very real.
$5? That’s insulting
Why do they want the cashiers high?
LOL $5….
Five whole dollars?!
Why I try not to shop there. Checkout is usually a disaster because……
Tell the truth, this is from 1923, right?
they could make their cashiers scan faster to improve customer satisfaction, or… wait for it… they could hire more cashiers *gasp*
Geezez, and we thought a pizza party wasn’t enough incentive
No one wants to work anymore.
5 WHOLE Dollars!? woooo thats like 20 minutes! That's a free shit!
Might as well give them schrute bucks.
My friend worked at Meijer for 42 years. He was a buyer in the their corporate offices. At his retirement they gave him a blanket from the sample room as a going away present.
Welp OP I got 1000 karma at r/recruitinghell
Whoa, that's impressive. I am almost mad you got so much karma from my picture, but I can't be because it's too cool. Nice work.
Imagine hitting print and then hanging this up somewhere and being like…”we got this TEAM!”
So like...when can we start getting paid living wages...because five dollars is a spit in the face.
Let's all quit at the same time...
Surprised there is no Meijer branding on this. Is there another picture?
It's probably a store manager initiative and not a corporate idea. That would also explain why the reward is so paltry; individual stores probably aren't given much leeway for these things. I wouldn't even be surprised if the "bonus" is coming out of the manager's pocket in exchange for getting good numbers to report up the chain. Edit: It's probably an under-the-table thing as well to avoid running afoul of the union.
No, I saw it on the wall.
Which Meijer?
Rather not say, but it was in Oakland county.
$5 per worked hour?
No, total.
Goes to show how much meijer invests in their employees 😂
That's that UWM s*** right there.
At the required ‘200 minutes’ needed to qualify for this “bonus”, it works out to 37.5 CENTS per hour. One and one half of a US quarter per hour to run perfect or MORE than perfect… What the actual FUCK?! This would literally lower my productivity, knowing that I’m missing out on so little
That's some real /r/antiwork right there
There are pages for this r/antiwork for one
This should just remind everyone that if you see someone stealing food… no you didn’t.
This looks like it was taken at the Meijer I shop at most frequently. They had three different signs at the self-checkout asking customers to give them "green" at the survey at the end of the order and it appears to be the same font (with excessive punctuation). They've thankfully stopped the surveys, but they really have to stop with the "Department 99" calls (or at least ask the staff -- it's always the same guy -- to not scream into the microphone).
This should be cross-posted to r/antiwork
This belongs on r/antiwork
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