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Quote from: NightAndDay on 21-09-23, 10:06AMVery unlikely to be a corporate restructure on Express, the structure can't really be streamlined anymore than it is, they could bring back Deputy Store Managers and replace sole store
managers with Cluster Store Managers (while the arrangement is in place in some stores, dual site store manager is not an official job title in the contract) but there would be minimal cost savings in that. Or introduce dedicated Whoosh delivery drivers, but again, that's not a redundancy situation.

More likely to be the case is certain stores closing down and the staff being made redundant due to sales not being high enough.

Correct my store is in express and makes 3 times less than before they still have nights as a express store former metro so if is only time will tell

The bar for sales is quite low for Express, general rules of thumb, if your store is taking over £90k a week in sales and has around 30 members of staff  on mainly part time contracts the structure is unlikely to change (around 1 member of staff for every £3k in sales), you can broadly apply that formula to Metro turned expresses which should have much higher sales figures

Quote from: NightAndDay on 30-09-23, 01:18PMThe bar for sales is quite low for Express, general rules of thumb, if your store is taking over £90k a week in sales and has around 30 members of staff  on mainly part time contracts the structure is unlikely to change (around 1 member of staff for every £3k in sales), you can broadly apply that formula to Metro turned expresses which should have much higher sales figures

Not all stores locations are the same. Some are located in extremly expensive location. Just for nights we have 11 people. For morning and evening they have another 30 people. The amount of delivery we use to get was 5 times more just for fresh we use to get nearly 100 delivery per night when it was metro now we get on average 26. For grocery we use to get 40 cages four large 2 sides now we get on most days 20 cages slim per night. So the workload has dramatically gone down over the years. Just recently they changed the front store so they remove a large wall and made the front of the store much wider were morecages can been put without being in customers way.

@bobmay you give reasons why it,l close,but theres a reason its still going when most extras,superstores near me have had them removed years ago,Long live your nightshift

Now that many of the large stores have the volumatic note acceptors installed and up and running do we know what will happen to the cash office? With the removal of the stamp machines, less cash tills and now no pods or minimal pods to process the job seems to be hacked back considerably.

Quote from: Ever ready on 26-10-23, 03:06PMNow that many of the large stores have the volumatic note acceptors installed and up and running do we know what will happen to the cash office? With the removal of the stamp machines, less cash tills and now no pods or minimal pods to process the job seems to be hacked back considerably.

I think the hours for Cash Office will be considerably reduced 😔

Does dot com compliance structure of managers/shift leaders exist? New structure change rumoured after Christmas apparently?

Our store had a period of about 4 months without a dotcom manager & the department ran so much better & much more efficiently with just the shift leaders running it. Lots of managers speak down to colleagues which only has the effect of making the colleague be less productive.

Quote from: fatlad on 31-10-23, 03:39PMLots of managers speak down to colleagues which only has the effect of making the colleague be less productive.

Quote from: fatlad on 31-10-23, 03:39PMOur store had a period of about 4 months without a dotcom manager & the department ran so much better & much more efficiently with just the shift leaders running it. Lots of managers speak down to colleagues which only has the effect of making the colleague be less productive.

Things usually run fone for a while without a manager. But who deals with absence, hiring, holidays etc.
The shift leaders if good can run the department very well because they are usually on the side of the pickers and drivers work wise and social wise. but when the otehr side is needed (and it is) They would quickly become the "enemy"   Now a manager who can be onside  when needed means the department runs even better.

The dotcom manager in our store is never on anyone's side except their owm. They just p*** drivers & pickers off everyday with let's talks & investigations for the most petty of things & then wonder why everyone leaves & they are always short of staff.

Had a look at Tesco app. Has anyone else noticed from 20rh Nov all shifts have gone to draft. What's that all about....

There was recent comms about it, but week 38 is Christmas extra hours, so they can start adding all the hours in for it etc, I'd have to look back through the news updates to find the bit about it.. Maybe it was with the Christmas update thing that was 17 pages.. Was somewhere that said about it anyhow, but the Christmas stuff starts from then until January anyhow.

Where can I find this. Is it accessible to colleagues about Christmas extra hours all mine going to 2024 is draft..

From today Wages cannot add any Bank details for New Starters or change details etc. another job gone!  How long have we got?? 

My best guess would be not much longer

Quote from: WAGs on 09-11-23, 11:17AMFrom today Wages cannot add any Bank details for New Starters or change details etc. another job gone!  How long have we got?? 

That's not what the coms says.

It states its admin colleagues who will not have this access and that during Inductions the new starters must upload all their personal details themselves.

It's a continuation of colleague admins losing their people access

Quote from: Checkout Superstar on 09-11-23, 09:06PM

Quote from: WAGs on 09-11-23, 11:17AMFrom today Wages cannot add any Bank details for New Starters or change details etc. another job gone!  How long have we got?? 

That's not what the coms says.

It states its admin colleagues who will not have this access and that during Inductions the new starters must upload all their personal details themselves.

It's a continuation of colleague admins losing their people access

You are incorrect or read it wrong they are calling the Wage clerks Wage Administraters as a Wage Clerk I cannot and neither can any others do Bank details as of yesterday!

Wage clerks are going to be fine in my opinion.

Isn't it, or rather it was, standard practice in most stores for the admins to upload all the personal details following the induction.   

Its Admin's who are mainly effected by all the losing of access. Admins literally now aren't supposed to be seeing anything like addresses, phone numbers etc. Soon they will lose their ability to view personal files. I bet the next coms is that Wage clerks are to take on all the Right To Work checks.

People Access was removed from Admins with an end goal in sight.  Admins who still have People Access can get their store fined.  The only way they can be given it is for up to a 28 day period to cover wage clerk holidays.  This request has to be made via coms with the dates needed included. Soon as those dates end the access is stripped again. This is accurate as we've just been through the process.

Admin is going to be absorbed into Wages. That is why its being referred to as Wages Administrator. That must be what the new title is going to be.

It makes sense because if you look at heatmaps for large stores the admins are on 5 hours a day while the wage clerks are in for 9. There is no need for a 5 hour admin person when you've already got someone in for the full day.

As for Right To Works. Surely that should have always been a Wages Clerk role anyway given they do the Visa checks.. just looks to me like someone finally realised only one office role was needed

Our Colleague Admin did get their People Access back but had it removed from them last week.

Colleague Admin are just the dogs body in my honest opinion. They are made to do the s*** jobs like filling up the cleaning stations, checking the first aid boxes and doing the laundry for the stores that still have a Bakery. The only bit of joy they get since People Access was took from them are the Inductions but even that process is now changing.

Good spot about Wages Clerk now being called Wages Administrator in coms too. I just assumed they had missed out a / but it does look like a new title.

The Shift Leaders have also been given new titles.

Yes Costa coffee getters lol

What is the new title for shift leaders??

I actually fail to see the point of Colleague Admin now that all colleagues are doing their own admin via MyTesco. Let's Talks are going online soon too.  The only role Admins actually seem to have now is Recruitment. Everything else they do can easily be picked up by others.  Do they really need someone on a 30 hour contract filling cleaning stations each day?.

Quote from: fatlad on 10-11-23, 07:00PMWhat is the new title for shift leaders??

Their title's are as before Shift Leader, Fulfillment Shift Leader, Nights Shift Leader and F&F Shift Leaders.

It is their SKILL that has changed from Management to Large Store Shift Leaders!  So they haven't got access to everything due to GDPR.