A lot of my GSAs tend to forget things 5 minutes after to ask or tell them... When I was cashiering I use to ask "hey do we need to work any reshop out?" or work any pulls etc and they'd be like "uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh let me check" then when there is stray to work on they put someone else on that task. One time I asked and 2 minutes later they put someone else on the job.
I felt a lot of favoritism amongst my GSAs and GSTLs towards other cashiers, and I definitely wasn't on the list of favorites for whatever reason. I thought I'd proven my prowess as a flexible cashier, doing carts, doing reshop quickly and right, zoning good, and being really friendly to just about everyone and basically always smiling and doing lots of other things. Helping with produce, FDC, hardlines, even helped flow once around 11am because it was a double truck day or whatever they said, there were multiple trucks(woo..) but it was always these 2-3 other cashiers that always got chosen to do it.
But, now that I've escaped, I've been able to prove myself useful to everyone but the front lanes now. Perhaps I did prove my ability to cashier in the year and a half I did it. They call for backups, and it hurts to have to not respond or say I can't because back in FDC I've been alone doing huge dairy CAFs and doing research and backstocking and keeping eggs and dairy stocked and keeping the cooler nice and organized, just basically always something I'm doing that I need to do other than cashier. No one ever calls for me to back up, though, so I can banish my sorrow to the back of my head and swallow it.
OKAY BACK ON TOPIC I wouldn't say any of my GSTLs or GSAs are lazy, just stressed to the max maybe?? One of my GSTLs is actually at least 90% there mentally compared to the rest of the GSAs and GSTLs, so that's good. I don't blame GSAs for being introverted on breaks or anything or taking longer breaks. One GSA combines his 15's into one because he says he's never gonna get his last one if he doesn't just take it all at once. I guess you're not suppose to do that, but I don't see any issue with that. On some days I wish I could do that. The same GSA will do anything to go outside or get away from the front lanes for a bit, so he's kind of the opposite of the whole "do no maintenance" thing.
The rest are just kids in college getting leadership experience, which I find highly valuable. Education and experience in leadership is something I might just put above being physically rich, perhaps not as a guest service leader, though, somewhere else in the store would be highly valuable in the aspirations I've seen and careers I desire. Nonetheless, any leadership experience is leadership experience.
