The Three Rs - Park Slope Food Coop

2 September 13, 2007 Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NYAugust GM MeetingCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1Normal shopping hours willresume, with the new system in placeon Tuesday October 2.Even before the big day happens,cashiers, checkout workers and shoppingsquad members have been busilytraining to use the new system sinceMonday, September 3, Labor Day noless, so that our experience on October2 will be a pleasant one. The trainingsessions last about 40 minutes and thegoal is to have nearly everyone whoneeds to be trained ready to use thenew machines by the end of the month.Balancing actDuring the agenda discussion portionof the meeting, coordinators andmembers tackled the thorny issue ofdistributing work in a way that besttakes care of the Coop’s myriad needs.Members at all levels of the organizationhave observed that certain timesof day and days of the week can have aterrible shortage or tremendous glutof workers. This could happen for severallogical reasons, including the factthat many members can only do theirslots on weekends or after 6 p.m.,Monday through Friday. Moreover,weekends are a popular time to domakeups, adding even more workersto the store during possibly overstaffedtimes.The two most common commentsmade to the coordinators (and theirmost popular responses) about thefeast or famine work situation are:1) As the Coop has grown, we have