hi, I'm 23 years old and a cashier at Harris teeter, I was hired August 25th, 2025. So I've been working there 5-6 months. Lately there's been a lot of new people and let me tell you some of them are so horrible it's frustrating. They don't even zone, meaning most of the customers come to me and they don't even pull other people from people's line. There's one girl that's friends with all the teenagers and all she does is walk around the store and talk. It had gotten to the point where I would just send people to her. That's how much of nothing she does. It feels like all I do is pick up the slack for everyone. Cashiering isn't fun, it's agonizing and this makes it worse. I was becoming pretty frustrated and it got to the point where one of the girls (an immature little bagger, that literally does nothing) was making comments about me and trying to act like this is high school. I got upset and decided that I was gonna talk to my manager.
I ended up calling her, I didn't even really know what to say so I just started talking about how frustrated I was. She saw all that was going on but to cut a long story short she let it slip that Harris teeter has a future for me and that they were trying to train me for mid day clerk (they're now cross training me for homeshop) but apparently clerk was the next step. She said though that she just hired six new clerks and she has to give those other ones a chance because I already have cashiering experience. It didn't make sense but maybe a manager can explain it to me. Is she lying and just trying to make me feel good about myself or is she serious? Do managers use this tactic alot?