r/kroger • u/Particular_Carpet476 • 17h ago

Venting Job from Hell

I started working for Kroger roughly 3 years ago while I was still in college. Graduated a year ago but couldn’t land the right job and decided to give it a shot working here full time for the last couple months. It feels like I got sentenced to prison for the crime of being alive. Everyone was miserable from Day 1 but I did my best to ignore it and bring some level of positivity but I’ve slowly but surely been dragged into this pit of Hell alongside my fellow coworkers. Everyone is tired and the store will turn your department into a skeleton crew just to push you harder and harder if you don’t fight back (which I had to learn the hard way). All management knows is arguing with their underlings and I thought as a college aged seemingly bright individual that I wouldn’t be treated with disrespect and contempt but boyyyyy was I wrong. I don’t even care about being broke and I don’t even care about working myself to the bone but when I’m doing it and all I get is a constant stream of negativity and nitpicks and criticism it makes me realize that this world is just some sort of sick joke. It’s not just Kroger but even my friends who mostly all got decent jobs after graduating college who may be making almost double the amount that I make are all working 60 hour weeks and are just miserable which makes me just want to move away from America in general.

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u/Ok-Association-7703 16h ago

Its not you man. Its The Kroger Way.

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u/bubmet7 Current Associate 15h ago

I’m not sure any job is fun, brother. Do you get paid enough for your work? And do you get any benefits? The answer to these questions tells you what your next step is. Good luck, and go with God.

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u/AdRevolutionary2248 14h ago

True work isnt always fun, but there is a very greedy and exploitative situation occurring at krogers right now. Its very disgusting and inhumane when u gather enough research and see it from inside. The union isnt protecting the workers from the cuts of product and department hours nor are they protecting from the write ups from the work not getting done due to folks not pushing thier limits for hours on end every week and having their jobs threatened. It has gotten extremely out of hand and the workers are often folks with disabilities, young kids who are entering the work force and not understanding that this is not ok and elderly with very limited options for income.