tell me if you think this is right

I work at a grocery store in the meat department. Wednesday is the slowest day of the week for us. Basically NOTHING to do. So, I decided to help the relatively new guy in grocery because he had ALOT to do. I was helping him work a skid and then the produce manager comes out of no where and starts yelling at me because I'm not in my department. I calmly and politely told him I've been checking that everything is ship shape in my department every 15-20 minutes or so. He doesn't believe me and threatens to check the security cameras. I once again calmly and politely told him that was fine because I was telling the truth. He was just so mad he made me do his work which was unloading 20 skids off of a truck. Is that right?

well i can say i kind of agree with him you have your department and the new guy has his and there for you should be worring about your department and makeing sure it is up to par per say. i run a department with 15 people in it and every now and then this lady from another area comes over and talks to my people and i have to tell her there is a time for that and it's called break time.

I've been working there long enough to run the department efficiently and "up to par", and I said theres nothing to do. If I stood around doing nothing I'd get in even more trouble, theres no winning with this guy, please tell me what I should have done instead, it sounds like I'm all wrong and got exactly what I deserved.

there is no winning in a situation like this. I have had that happen on several occasions and all i can say is lifes a b***h and then you die. (But no i dont thinks its right.) My logic is if you had nothing to do why not help out somewhere else. I would think the company would be happier if you were working rather than standing ther and getting paid for nothing. oh well.

Exactly!

I tell my crew, if you are out of work, polish your work area down. If that's done do it again better. Everytime they go off to another dept., it's usually to bull****. There are times someone from another dept. NEEDS help, then that's okay.

id tell his to stick his job up his arse

Don't tell him to "stick his job"! There's 20 people waiting for that job, and less jobs out there for you to find. That's the way of the world right now, a good job is hard to find.

Look the fact is some days bosses are idiots but then so are employees. Instead of being upset over this, why not go to this person when everyone is cooled down and ask what the proper procedure or expectation is for helping another department? Everyone these days is so touchy, where'd communication skills go?

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Originally Posted by Pwilliams58

I work at a grocery store in the meat department.

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Maybe Broseph will chime in with his meaty words of wisdom. :giggle:

Broseph is like the meat king and junk! :stab:

The only right answer when your boss goes nutty on you is
"I'm sorry, it won't happen again."
you might also add in this case
"I should have asked you if it was OK for me to come help this guy. I will remember to do that next time."

arguing with an unreasonable boss is never going to help the situation. That's just one of the sucky things about being an adult...pick your battles - and this ain't one you pick :)

frankykeno and fishmommy nailed it right on the head. Yes, it was unreasonable of him to come down on you like that...and then to load extra work on you from HIS departement, basically forcing you to do just what he yelled at you for doing in the fisrt place. (Working outside your own department)


Confrontation and getting angry won't work, though. ....I'm trying to think of more advice to offer, but those two covered it too perfectly. I'd go back and read those again. ;) fishmommy has great advice for what to do in the actual moment of getting confronted by an unreasonable authority figure....and frankykeno has excellent advice about how to handle the aftermath.

Great stuff there, ladies!

I look at it like this I get paid the same whether I'm fabing one job or three or none. If my boss walked in and said he needed me to go run the truck to the shop guess what my pay doesn't go down.

It was wrong of him to use that as discipline. In the future just stay where your supposed to even if some one needs help. Tell them they'll have to clear it with the boss first. :D Make it his decision that you leave or area.

all right here's the deal...It's totally different in the grocery stores. heres maybe why he got mad.Oh..I've been a meat manager for 6 years, and a cutter since 1995.
1. in northeast ohio its a big union area and were in different locals as they are. so that might be one reason if your a union store.

2. Alot of time the meat department gets paid more then other employees do, so they expect to to stay in your department do to the fact the "others" employees we'll say "why is he getting paid this much to do the same work as i am".

3. I know in the store i worked at the other departments really have a different outlook on us in the meat department because we dont have to tie bails, take out trash, run carts, ect..and all we do is stand here and cut meat. maybey he saw an opertunity to bust your balls, and he took it.

It's nice you wanted to help a new person out, but it's prob best if you stay in the meat department and let them worry about training the new people. Just bring it up to the store manager that this person is in need of more training they should get him the help he needs.

how sweet susan...thats so kind of ya...lol
Close to being King...well heck your right i am..lol..

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Originally Posted by daaangconcepts

Maybe Broseph will chime in with his meaty words of wisdom. :giggle:

Broseph is like the meat king and junk! :stab:

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see where i work we have ten departments and each department has there own payroll so you can't work in any department unlesswe change the department thats paying you.

we're getting a new time clock system were that will happen, you punch in with a finger print. everytime you change department you will have to punch on the clock..

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Originally Posted by gncz73

see where i work we have ten departments and each department has there own payroll so you can't work in any department unlesswe change the department thats paying you.

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i had a job years ago that used a hand scan and four dig code to punch in but the place i'm at now use the card system and when ever someone's needed in another department i have to go on the computer and change it.

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Originally Posted by jar2476

we're getting a new time clock system were that will happen, you punch in with a finger print. everytime you change department you will have to punch on the clock..

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do you do payroll? or are you an H.R. manager?

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Originally Posted by gncz73

i had a job years ago that used a hand scan and four dig code to punch in but the place i'm at now use the card system and when ever someone's needed in another department i have to go on the computer and change it.

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