Closing on Sales Floor/Rant
The past two days for the closing shift we have only had 2 people on the sales floor (usually we would have 3 for weekday nights and 4 for weekends) and I was wondering if other stores have moved down to 2 as well? Since it has happened 2 times now, I am assuming it is not due to someone calling out last minute although that could be the case. From things I've heard on this reddit, I am guessing it is a corporate decision/not enough hours being granted because just how ridiculous it is. For context, the store I work at is 30,000 square feet, so it is BIG.
Anyway last night, there was 2 people on floor (me being one of those 2 people), with the other person being roped into helping one of my supervisors on a task in clothing (not sure what it was). Now 2 people alone on floor is bad enough on a regular day, but of course corporate is coming tomorrow so everything had to look perfect for them. Not only did did I have to take care of the perimeter, but I also had to take back most of the clothing go-backs too and my manager wanted me to work on 4 endcaps of which I only finished 2 because of how long everything else took. At the end I didn't even have time to pick up the (again) trashed floor including the clothing areas because we were out of time and my coworker & I "needed" to pick up the queue to make it look nice. I wasn't able to leave until an hour after my shift ended. (remember we have 30,000 square footage in our store)
I am so grateful to be blessed with good management & coworkers (my manager was helping with endcaps) but corporate is absolutely losing it oh my gosh - I've had annoyances & bad times with Burlington in the past but this one really takes the cake
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EDIT - needed that rant but realizing now just how insanely lucky I am at my store - ty for all for the insights!
I honestly thought it was normal for at least a couple people to be on the sales floor especially with a similar store size as the one I work at - i was clearly wrong 😭
