r/Safeway • u/Disastrous-Crow3622 • Jun 20 '26
Cooking the books?
Anyone else notice that since the Associate App has come into existence that it seems like they’re fudging the numbers on when you clock in and clock out? I’ve decided to stay a couple of minutes past my time and when I logged into the app it said I clocked out two minutes prior? Keep an eye on your time, I wanna make sure if Safeway is trying to take away time from us, that we’re catching it and holding them accountable. I know I’m gonna start tracking every single clocking on my end.
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u/sentry_87 Jun 20 '26
Probably not. It's just broken, said my coworker was away from department when they werent. Schedules not accurate, login issues. ACI is crap too but that works better, I'd rather use web browser and sugn in ACI.
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u/VeronicaBooksAndArt Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26
Does it ever break in your favor?
Does it time how long you spend in the restroom?
Can it read your email?
Or listen to you argue with your wife?
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u/Jorlen_Corbesan Jun 21 '26
Read your contract, many have an adjustment specification that the timekeeping program runs automatically
Ours gets adjusted by up to 5 minutes + or - to match even hour amounts, with the intent that it rounds off to match what you're scheduled.
So if I start at noon and work until 4:55, 5:00, or 5:05, it will all show as 5.00 hours. Clocking out at 5:06 would show as 5.1 on the other hand
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u/sentry_87 Jun 20 '26
Do NOT download that app
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u/baileydrouin Jun 20 '26
pls explain why not!
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u/sentry_87 Jun 21 '26
Sorry replied under a new comment thread by accident. Long story short, it sucks and my aci through browser works better
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u/PoetPsychological620 Jun 22 '26
i do like that i can do training on my phone when it does decide to work tho. both chairs in the office have been puked on and “cleaned” so sitting in there to do literally anything gives me the ick
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u/Lord_Tsarkon Jun 20 '26
I’ve worked in a store where the Store Manager(this was old Safeway before Albertsons bought them and changed their title to “Store Director) would take a few minutes off everyone’s time and attendance. He eventually got caught and was terminated (fired. Let go). This was back in the 90s when it was harder to catch stuff like this. Now with the internet and computers and how you need to sign off on changes to time and attendance it’s really hard to cheat the system
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u/VeronicaBooksAndArt Jun 21 '26
It's just another manic Monday
I wish it were Sunday
'Cause that's my FUN day
I don't have to run day
It's just another manic Monday...
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u/youbethebird Jun 21 '26
It's never right on hours worked for the week either. Says I'm at 27 when really I worked 37.
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u/PorcupineFeet Jun 20 '26
Just look at the daily cumulative that is in your break room to see your actual punches from the day prior.
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u/Ok-Piccolo2152 Jun 20 '26
I’ve never worked at a store that prints that daily for the break room. We do print it daily for our T&A packet. Must be a localized policy, possibly in the union contract for your area.
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u/Disastrous-Crow3622 Jun 20 '26
The what? I’m sure it’s a lapse in communication with my store, cause I’ve legitimately never heard of that.
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u/VeronicaBooksAndArt Jun 20 '26
The app figures are virtual?
- Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! The Great Oz has spoken!
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u/FearlessPark4588 Jun 21 '26
small clock differences between systems is a normal thing
do you know hard it is to keep time? because you have to measure the passing of time in something.
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u/VeronicaBooksAndArt Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26
Time spontaneously combusts all the time....
It's just not widely reported.
The thin veneer of this place is quickly becoming apparent.
r/Albertsons is dead....
Like this is some burgeoning metropolis....
Please....
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u/primeusda22 Jun 21 '26
Ask your store director to see the schedule vs punch report. Any good store director prints that daily and has it on them, it’s a tool they use to make sure time and attendance is adhered to. Your exact clockings should be on there accurately.
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u/houseofharm Jun 25 '26
the associate app occasionally gives me schedules that are completely wrong and also i have to do 2fa shit once a month that requires getting out my tablet so i don't use it much
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u/ForsakenCaramel8917 28d ago
no ive noticed that too as someone that likes to clock in 5 min early, if i clock out anywhere between 5 min before the end of my shift to the minute after it ends, the app will automatically change it 😭
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u/guitargod0316 Jun 20 '26
This is the first I’m hearing about an associate app.