Please sign this petition against TSCs new brooders

[aart]

for some reason, pellets were being used instead of crumbles

I found that odd, tho I didn't ask about it.
I kinda feel sorry for some of the staff, they are not well guided by local and/or corporate staff ....not to mention the abuse from some customers.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Well said.
I bet this time next year people are gonna complain about the bins being used.

We do every year at mine

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Few companies, it seems, invest in their employees by training them well - and sadly, its been my experience that less than half of those employees have any interest in more than the minimum knowledge to perform their job duty - how to run the registers, stock the aisles, direct customers to the aisle, and check inventory.

My brief time in management, I found it difficult to find employees interested in cross training, and was too low myself in the management chain to be able to provide any reward, incentive, or recognition to those who were interested in bettering themselves. To the contrary, it more often resulted in deliberate short staffing, because placing cross-trained Jack or Jill on the schedule meant "they could do it all". Which created difficult employee dynamics of its own.

I don't miss it.

and I don't expect much of the average employee anymore, either.

 

[Brooks_]

Few companies, it seems, invest in their employees by training them well - and sadly, its been my experience that less than half of those employees have any interest in more than the minimum knowledge to perform their job duty - how to run the registers, stock the aisles, direct customers to the aisle, and check inventory.

My brief time in management, I found it difficult to find employees interested in cross training, and was too low myself in the management chain to be able to provide any reward, incentive, or recognition to those who were interested in bettering themselves. To the contrary, it more often resulted in deliberate short staffing, because placing cross-trained Jack or Jill on the schedule meant "they could do it all". Which created difficult employee dynamics of its own.

I don't miss it.

and I don't expect much of the average employee anymore, either.

Been there, done that. And I expect more because I know it can be done.

 

[chickentrains]

Every person who has documented their trip to TSC thus far has reported pasty butt in one or more of the chickens. Wouldn't you agree thats a problem? I think @CHlCKEN is correct in saying there is excessive pasty butt in the chicks. This is a chain farm store. They will of COURSE say their chickens are their #1 priority. So does EVERY other shady business out there.

 

[Brooks_]

Every person who has documented their trip to TSC thus far has reported pasty butt in one or more of the chickens. Wouldn't you agree thats a problem? I think @CHlCKEN is correct in saying there is excessive pasty butt in the chicks. This is a chain farm store. They will of COURSE say their chickens are their #1 priority. So does EVERY other shady business out there.

Maybe. At this time last year, I didn't have chickens and the brooders were below knee level, I have no base-line. But I am disappointed with them on almost every level.

 

[chickentrains]

Maybe. At this time last year, I didn't have chickens and the brooders were below knee level, I have no base-line. But I am disappointed with them on almost every level.

When I got mine in 2020 they where In the old brooders, everybody was happy and healthy. I am not seeing the same with the new brooders. I am very disapointed, as well.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

There is pasty butt every year, its not brand new because of the brooders. Heck, I've had pasty butt worse than my stores have this year due to everything that they've went through

 

[chickentrains]

There is pasty butt every year, its not brand new because of the brooders. Heck, I've had pasty butt worse than my stores have this year due to everything that they've went through

If there where nationwide pasty butt issues like this year, don't you think there would be more talk about it?

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Every person who has documented their trip to TSC thus far has reported pasty butt in one or more of the chickens. Wouldn't you agree thats a problem? I think @CHlCKEN is correct in saying there is excessive pasty butt in the chicks. This is a chain farm store. They will of COURSE say their chickens are their #1 priority. So does EVERY other shady business out there.

On the assumption that you aren't interested in a lesson in statistics, trends in positive/negative feedback reporting, or even the history of this thread, I'm not going to list all the mistakes made in the short paragraph above.

By Chicken's own admission, CHICKEN has no first hand knowledge, but is merely repeating what was heard in CHICKEN's echo chamber of (likely unconscious) self-selection.

Seeing what we want to see is also a human trait - we tend to dismiss information which does not comport with our pre-existing beliefs, while elevating that which tends to confirm it.

On the subject of TSC and the new Brooders, there are a lot of variables in play, and some emotionally charged anecdotes, but its nothing like a complete data set. Caution in one's pronouncements or the reality of this situation is warranted.