r/woolworths

How many hours of shift do you get in a week if you are a casual store member?

This post is for any department managers that do rostering.

Do you guys find it frustrating that the rostering system does not include tea breaks in the roster? I work in nightfill and say I have 2 hours worth of tea breaks and i’m on target hours, i’m actually down 2 hours.

The main solution to this is I miss my own break as a manager, work way harder past my pay grade and stay back late.

Or I have to roster the team shifts that are under 4 hours to avoid tea breaks overall, and i’m not a monster so why would I do that? That just increases staff turnover, lowers morale and if someone has a shift without a break they are most definitely going for a ‘bathroom’ break.

It’s a very frustrating situation especially in nightfill. This simply goes unaddressed and i’m sick and tired of it to be completely honest. The response from the store services lady when I told her about this: “you’re stuffed”. The response from grocery manager “lots of things at woolworths aren’t fair”

Realistically could the union do anything about this???

Is there any way you can disable the self checkout from asking if you’d like to round up your shop to the nearest dollar to donate to some cause of the month? Grocery shopping is expensive as is.

Went through self service at the local Woolworths and realised when I got home that I had forgotten to scan two items total value about $9.

It was an honest mistake as I was trying to make sure my 4 year old didn’t run away.

Am I going to be on a watchlist now or something. I feel really guilty but I’m embarrassed to go back to the store and confess. What should I do?

I'm part time, have worked for Woolworths since 2022 and considering resigning as I've had enough of being treated like a number 🥰

I've got 2 different starting dates on my employment offer letter as I transferred stores. I was at the first store for 12 months (casual), then transferred to my current one (changed to part time on my first day there) that I've been at for 2.5 years

Do I go off my original employment date for the amount of notice I need to give? Or do I go off the date I commenced at my current store? The EBA is a bit confusing

I’m actually bothered by this because it does nothing to deter these people. As a matter of fact, you’re only encouraging them to do it again and again again while passing on the bill towards people who actually pay for their groceries.

This is disgusting and it needs to stop. Either go bankrupt, or catch the perpetrators

I don’t normally get deliveries or pickup, but I have been bed ridden for awhile, so it’s the only option for my family for the next few weeks.

I have a question for online shoppers: If I pick a particular yogurt that’s in stock and chose to not substitute, but the note I leave on the item says ‘If expiry date is before XX/XX/XXXX, please do not provide’, does that get honoured and do I just get refunded?

My kids only like a certain brand of yogurt, but the last two online shops I have done, the yogurts exp date has been within 2 or 3 days, and half the tub goes to waste. I have msgd Woolworths about it, and they’ve said because it was in date when supplied, they can’t do anything about it.

So until I am back on my feet and can shop in person again, would this work?

I just saw the post of a frog found in a salad bag. I’m seriously not surprised. I used to add the salads to stir-fries straight from bags.

One day, I looked at the packet of salad and it looked dull. I thought maybe it needs a rinse and I was shocked to see a strand of hair, sand, some residue of something like black sand and the water was murky.

Since then I have rinsed my salads before cooking. I cannot even imagine cooking these veggies with remnants of the garden in my gut 🤢.

Rinse with some salt and if it’s murky, rinse again.

Does Woolworths have a policy or documents about the Right to Disconnect laws? I know FairWork have documents, but wanting to see if Woolworths have any specific documents, or where I can find this published by Woolworths?

Asking as my DM is requesting all team members to engage in a What's App group about work at all times, even when we're not at work. It sounds very fishy to me and I thought we had the right to disconnect outside of work?

Like I understand if it's urgent messages about shifts then sure, but we're being told to reply to updates and news about our department off the clock like non-urgent matters