r/SafewayWorkers

Seafood guy here. Just wanted to rant a lil because our hose always seems to break down and I’m close to hitting my last straw. It feels like every week the hose only sprays water; no cleaner; no sanitizer. I cleaned a clogged plastic line from the sanitizer to the 3 way valve last week and it worked fine before I took my 1 week vacation; came back today and now it’s broke again, there’s a mold spot where there wasn’t when I left last week and I’m one bad shift away from calling OSHA or sumn to get this fixed. Is there any way to expedite sanitation to come over and fix this? Still part time and although I like my job and coworkers, one of the few things I will not compromise on is food safety. Also if we could get a meat/seafood flair that’d be great.

Does nps even matter? Was told to be on the look out for them, but im too busy to.its more like a managerial favor than a corporate demand.

Also does the tv in the break room feels dystopia as shit bc it seems like they are trying to "motivate" you to be a better worker.

Myself and 4 others were hired the beginning of July of a very large brand new store . A majority of us are experiencing painful finger and hand cramping. One guy had to call out for a day because of it and I had it so bad one night I was in tears due to the pain. My dr gave me an Rx for Celebrex and it’s helped immensely. But it feels like my joints are super inflamed and throbbing still. Our cut room is cold af .

Has anyone else experienced this? Does it go away eventually or am I just a pussy ? lol

Ive been at Safeway for nearly 2 years. I work at the Starbucks dept and am crosstrained for Bakery clerk and floral clerk. I only help Floral during the V-Day and the Mom Day weeks, & im in Bakery once or twice a week at most or as needed. It depends.

Usually when I'm having a bad day at work, I either am able to let it go quickly, or I go vent to my fellow coworkers and let it go. We all get it and shit sucks. I think we're always screwed over by this company. Ive been having a hard time with balancing at home necessities with my schedule since I will have 5am shift days, then 2pm shifts, then 7am shifts. Its never the same.

But lately its just been something every single day and im hitting a limit. I get a guy at the bakery who tells me the dutch crunch bread is too light, too dark, too soft, too hard, its in the wrong packaging, it shouldn't be sitting upright in the baskets (he got so pressed he literally trespassed into the bakery and wrote 'doesnt your baker know how to make dutch crunch bread?' on our equipment); I get creepy men harassing me when ive never met them; I get this lady every so often who yells at me and my Starbucks peeps if we so much as dont shake the whipped cream canister as much as she'd like us to; my managers change my schedule without telling me and wonder why I come in at my original scheduled time. Theres a lot more, and usually its not so consecutive.

I try telling my managers about the customers we get and they just tell me to call them. Most times i dont even have enoigh time to call them since the interaction is 10 seconds, or it's too busy in the store, or they're in meetings and I cant call them.​

A few weeks ago my boss & manager took my coworker out of the SB dept when we had a line to the back of the store because the checkers needed help (there were no lines at all, it was just SB & Deli that were busy). I had to deal with that rush by myself for HOURS and she just shrugged at me when I asked for help. That rush did not let up until we closed (there was an all day event nearby). I called the union about it and they told me there's nothing they can do. I've been so burnt out because of that, and Ive been leaving each shift since that rush day in tears from burnout. Idk I understand SB doesnt make the store a lot of money but its one day a year that we are so busy that we need all the help we can get and we cant have anyone out the dept and they fucked me over so badly. I see my other coworkers having breakdowns every other day.

I'm sorry for the long rant post, its just been a lot and i have ZERO clue how others manage this job when its like this. Yes I do have a therapist I just started seeing.

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.

Working meat and seafood and I don’t get called very often; but every time I do I have no idea where to go, I always have to ask a coworker. One of the ones I remember off the top of my head is 1301, but an explanation of all of them would be great.