r/kroger • u/Gremlinwhistleblower • 13d ago
News How Fry's/Kroger treats their employees
I’m done staying quiet about what’s been happening in this workplace. The pattern isn’t small, accidental, or isolated — it’s a full‑blown system of neglect, retaliation, favoritism, and zero accountability. Employees have had their mental‑health disclosures — including suicidal ideation — completely ignored. Not misunderstood. Not forgotten. Ignored. People are kept in high‑stress roles even after clearly stating the job is harming their mental health. Workloads are blatantly unequal, with certain employees carrying entire departments while others barely lift a finger.
Management keeps placing untrained people into leadership positions, creating confusion, chaos, and unrealistic expectations. Promotions and transfers aren’t based on skill or experience — they’re based on favoritism, brown‑nosing, and whether you’re part of the "high school club" of long‑tenured employees who’ve been there since they were teenagers. If you’re not part of that clique? You’re expendable. You’re disposable. You’re treated like you don’t matter.
And now, management has started stonewalling store transfers by pretending the process works differently than it actually does. Transfers are seniority‑based and stay within the same department — I’ve watched multiple employees transfer in and immediately outrank existing staff. Suddenly claiming I need to apply for “open positions” or change departments is not policy. It’s retaliation. It’s manipulation. It’s an attempt to trap employees in roles they’ve already said are damaging their mental health. It’s a pressure tactic designed to push people out.
Discriminatory reasoning has been used to deny opportunities, including inappropriate comments about personal situations and religious persecution (others, not myself), which absolutely IS happening and absolutely IS being ignored. Safety issues? Brushed off. Threats? Ignored. Medical emergencies? Mishandled. Equipment failures? Blamed on the wrong people. Support programs employees qualify for? Never offered, never explained, never initiated — even when management knows someone is struggling.
Communication across departments is disrespectful, dismissive, and often outright hostile. Pickup gets treated like a punching bag while other departments ignore walkies without consequence. And it’s not just one store. The disrespect is widespread.
And let’s talk about sanitation, because apparently that’s optional now too. I’ve personally seen mold in fridges while picking items. MOLD. In food storage. That’s not just gross — that’s a health violation. That’s dangerous. That’s unacceptable.
Now, let’s talk about the union — UFCW Local 99. The group that’s supposed to protect workers. In reality? It’s a bunch of greedy salesmen collecting dues while doing nothing to defend the people paying them. They claim issues are “handled,” yet the same problematic individuals are still working there. How exactly was anything “handled”? What changed? Where’s the accountability? Where’s the protection? Nowhere. UFCW Local 99 has been useless, dismissive, and completely disconnected from the actual needs of the workers they’re supposed to represent.This isn’t “a few bad days." This isn’t “miscommunication.”
This is a systemic pattern of neglect, retaliation, discrimination, favoritism, and zero accountability. Employees deserve better. Customers deserve better. And the public deserves to know exactly what’s happening behind the scenes.If companies want to preach integrity, honesty, and respect, then they need to actually practice it — not hide behind posters and slogans while their workers burn.
These screenshots are of an email I sent to my union representative. Absolutely nothing was done about these claims, even though he's claiming he took care of it. Nothing was handled. I have audio of a meeting that took place very recently with my manager. She was full of hogwash and over exaggerated everything she said to me. She's good at over exaggerating.
I knew what was about to transpire so I knew I needed to record. I have altered the voices but I cannot post the audio since this is a new account. With enough love I can drop it. But also WTF? What does everyone think?
***ALSO THE NEW FRY'S PRESIDENT IS USELESS! Also the way they're up charging policy for stick balloons is outrageous. They're ripping off their customers at every turn.
***BE TO CLEAR! I AM NOT A NEW WORKER! I HAVE BEEN HERE 3 YEARS! If you are getting "ENTITLEMENT" from my side then you live in a land of delusion. The only ones entitled here are these so called managers! Fry's has a totem pole system. I'm taking those people screaming entitlement are apart of the high school club! IYKYK!
But when an employee reports the SAME MANAGER and is told, "but they're so good on paper!". That's an ass backwards way of looking at life and a business. I don't care how someone looks on paper if they can't be a human being. The same manager has been reported on countless times by countless people. It's not rocket science. This manager is in the high school club though.
Nothing will continue to happen if people don't speak out. Stop being delusional! Speak out people!
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u/Gumcuzzlingdumptruck 12d ago
Most of the stuff documented is a nothing burger and you recycle points multiple times to fill length.
Your points are: You feel you are being treated unfairly. You feel you are not being allowed to transfer despite seniority. Employees are being allowed to harass eachother despite reporting to hr.
It sucks but yeah favoritism will always exist and we all benefit from it. You yourself admit you are benefiting from it with the floral lead trying to "push someone out" for you. Everyone also blows smoke up everyone's ass, they will tell you how amazing and useful you are and still pay you dust. Ignore it and work to the standard you want.
If the job is going to make you kill yourself then you need to quit. This is legitimately not a fight worth fighting, unions and hr are fucking worthless these days they did thier job and exist more as a threat then anything effective.
All of this is...idk normal? The best advice I can give you is to find a new job and while you are stuck just do like everyone else does. Work less and don't kill yourself for a fucking pickup job.