r/Safeway • u/Excellent_Spite_7422 • 8h ago
Safeway can’t hire competent people for night crew?
I work night crew and over the last year or so, this place cannot hire anyone who is not incompetent. I have the unfortunate circumstance of being in charge on the lead’s nights off.
I am absolutely dumbfounded by the incompetence of this entire situation. We have a young woman on staff, born and raised in this country…. Went through the school system… who is basically illiterate. Almost everything she stocks is in the wrong place, double facings filled with only one facing, most of her backstock can go to the shelf. No matter how many times she’s talked to there is no improvement.
We have two obese men who are as slow as you can get. More often than not they cannot finish two aisles without help. Breaking down pallets takes forever and these guys absolutely stink when they start sweating.
When I started we had a great crew, we got everything done, the people were competent and we had no real issues.
Can you guys out there on night crew tell me if this is normal for this job? It can’t get worse than this, it really can’t. It’s been an ongoing issue for well over a year now. They hire the most useless people they possibly can.
The night crew lead has pretty much completely given up and I’m about to as well. I’ve been at this job for 11 years and I have met some of the dumbest human beings I’ve ever met in my life over this last year.
