r/Safeway

So they would rather I take 4 one week vacations a year than 2 two week vacations. Vacation time is earned and should be able to use as I please. IMO.

So i closed in self checkout tonight and let me say safeeay decided to give me it's best in customers tonight. First I had this guy freaking out at me because he couldn't buy beer with his EBT card. So I suspend his order because he was using cash and scanned his items at the card only machine. Then he starts being rude because the beer was not the correct price. Instead of telling me the correct price he goes over to the beer aisle and rips on of the electronic price tags off the wall and brings it to me. Finally send him on his way after he was extremely rude to me. After that "wonderful" customer another guy goes up to a self checkout machine with 2 boxes of individual cracker packs. He says they are a dollar each and we're on the discount rack in the back. So I scanned the 30 individual cracker packs that I guess he couldn't scan himself and applied the discount and then he decided he didn't want them. I swear some customers make me want to rip my hair out.

TLDR night of crazy customers

I used to work for safeway from 2017-2022. My mother now works there because she wants to get out of the house and around people. There is a woman that has worked at the store since I was like a baby. Like over 20 years. And got a promotion several years ago to store director and was moved. She ended up coming back to this location and demoted back to bookkeeper.

Unfortunately, and I don't know what happened, she started to target my mother. She has had a lot of health issues and has had a few injuries and a surgery. From what I have heard, this woman has accused my mother twice now of faking doctors notes, accused her of theft while she was a customer as she needed some items, yelled at mom that she doesn't put thieves on the checkstand, accusing mom of wanting her job, and generally being an ass to my mother. I've taken my mom to the doctor's and I have seen her in severe pain to where she breaks down crying. To accuse her of faking fucking doctor's notes twice now has me furious.

Calling local 400 is not going to do jack squat as it was just basically brushed under the rug the first time. And the store director was changed just yesterday. For the like 10th time in several months. But I am about ready to raise hell with this woman myself. She used to be so nice and kind. She was nice to my mom until this woman went back to bookkeeping. I might not have the best relationship with my mother at this time, but I'm not going to let someone like this woman treat my mother like this.

How the heck can this be resolved before I end up getting myself banned from that ghetto store after raising hell with this lady?

Why do all bookkeeper think they are a manager when they are only bookkeeper and why are they so rude and grumpy?

Saw a crazy homeless man inside the gates alarm Safeway on San Antonio road harassing all the customers inside and got kicked out by the associates. This same crazy homeless man loiters at the Village at San Antonio Center phase 2 sometimes and harasses people working or walking thru there and security kicks him out often. This man is known to harass people and loiter in private property. Go to Shoreline, Miramonte, Los Altos First Street, or Rengstroff Mini Mart instead. No mentally ill homeless people and no alarm security gates.

We just got all new stuff in the cash office and the book keeper can’t sign into Veribalance because it needs a license number and they’re closed. Is there ANYONE she can call to try to get a walk through in what she should do in order to do book keeping duties in a situation like this? She called me completely worried and not knowing who to call or what to do!

Why

Hi I just started fresh cut about 3 months ago now, it’s fun cool just staying in the back making fruit bowls and such but lately it’s been sucky.

when I got hired it was me and two other dudes I told them I can work anytime so my schedule is usually 5am-1:30 everyday and the other dude says he could start anytime too but the third one can’t work weekends only can work one day in the morning and every shift he can’t come in till 10:30.

But long story short the dude who said can work anytime quit not long ago they told me after the summer is over I could go to the Doug department but they asked if I wanted to be permanent back there I said yes but lately I’ve started to regret it.

So we do have a lead she’s nice but she can only work three days out the week so I cover her days over and work one day with her but after I got a month and a half training they started leaving me back there packaging doing the best I can to do the fruit list with the with the limited training I got.

But now they started cutting hours so now my schedule is 5am-12 , ever since that one dude quit I’ve been working by myself till the dude who can’t come in till 10:30 gets there I can’t finish the list I feel like I’m too slow to keep up my lead says you have to finish it no matter what but I’ve been trying my best.

My produce manger just tells me just do what you can but the store director gives my lead pretty much shit abt how her team can’t get it done he came in one day while I was with the lead and scolded her abt it she told him abt the hours cut and that she’s work by herself when she’s scheduled( bc they know just her she can finish the list). she tells me that’s what she gets told every time we don’t finish the list I feel bad that I cant finish the list.

But it’s hard coming in the morning doing the Vision Pro and setting up the room, cutting wedges and quarters of water melon on display while being by-myself feels like I get nothing done the wall is mostly empty they got in a new girl that’s been in the Safeway company for 13 years or so she’s sweet she tells me not too stress too abt it. She works partime she usually come in at 7 but she doesn’t know too much abt the department she use to do the vegetable a lot , not really the fruit so ive been training her best I can.

Which makes me feel a little better but I feel like i get looks from the hire ups from not getting stuff done enough in time before I leave for the day it’s just been stressing me out I just got told by my produce manger we getting a new guy that’s been in the military that ig the store director told my manger that “this dude seems like he can get things done” idk if that indicated that I don’t get stuff done?

I don’t know every since he said that it’s been weighing on my mind if I’m getting replaced? my produce manager said he’s gonna get training somewhere else before he gets put in fresh cut department , I don’t know what to think of the situation I like the job works out in my personal life with the morning scheduling.

At this point I feel like I should get another job but I don’t want too:(

Looking for some PT income as a senior. Reading some of the older posts has me a little spooked in taking an offer for a position. I have another op with a clothing retailer at a mall. Can I get any more recent experience from any California based clerks for how things are? What are minimum hours required? I don’t think I can do more than 12 during first semester. I know management makes a huge difference, but any insights you can share would be appreciated!

I kinda need to rant about this a little bit but also kinda get some feedback to make sure I’m not losing my mind.

Im pretty sure I’m either fired or suspended. It would be for attendance if anything but I have no idea. I called out Tuesday because I was injured from crashing my electric scooter and had documentation from urgent care for it and I wasn’t going to use my sick time for it since I had the documentation.

Then I called out Saturday as I had a migraine and I let them know that I would like to use my sick time for that shift. My manager had scheduled me outside of my availability that day so I told her the absolute latest I could stay was 3pm and she acknowledged it via text and said it was fine and I could leave when I needed to so I was going to leave at 2:30pm that day as I worked my second job that day as well.

So I would’ve worked 7:30-2:30pm Saturday and I had that 7 hours of sick pay to cover it. Well after Saturday I had a coworker tell me that I had been removed from the schedule and there was a new gc made without me. When I had asked manager for the new schedule she gave me the old one instead of the new updated one my coworker had received without me on it.

Unless I’m misunderstanding something then my first call out would’ve been excused and then I had sick time for my second one? Please feel free to let me know if this is incorrect!

So now I’m confused on if I am suspended or fired?? I would like to know now instead of being deceived. My next scheduled shift is supposed to be for Wednesday but if they knew they were going to fire or suspend me and don’t say anything to me until Wednesday when I get there, then I won’t lie and say that I wouldn’t be a bit upset especially after being silently removed from the schedule and then being lied to about it.

It is to note that I was previously suspended 7/9 but have had points drop off since then as well.

Edit: I’m in CO and points fall off after a year here with my union. 6 points is 3 day suspension 7 is termination. I had 6 2/3 points on 7/9 when I got suspended but I had 1 1/3 points drop off since then so I would have 5 1/3 points when the callouts occurred. I’ve been with the company since April of 2025.

TLDR: Assistant manager is ruining people’s lives and he needs to be fired.

This guy has been harassing everyone. 3 people quit. People are crying. He targets people when they’re alone and says awful things. I left a month ago, my best friend quit last week, my partner is one of his newest targets. He told a girl she should leave because minors don’t belong in the workforce. We were all really dedicated workers, we excelled in our roles. I picked up extra hours, showed up early, stayed late, and he lied and told corporate I was unreliable and hardly showed up to work. I tried to transfer stores, and he told the same thing to their store director so they refused the transfer. He’s a monster. I don’t know what to do about it. My friend has been so depressed because of the months of verbal abuse. She keeps telling me she doesn’t wanna live anymore and it’s breaking my heart.

I’m at a loss. Corporate won’t listen to me, I don’t know where to contact HR, something needs to be done and no one is taking the initiative.

I need help. Everyone else needs help.
Please 🙏