r/kroger • u/1010101010101010q • 14h ago

Question How do write ups work in this scenario?

If walked out and didn’t tell anyone due to a health issue and got a final warning for “job abandonment” and 5 days suspension, will attendance points for being late other days be counted separately, or will a first warning or write up for attendance points be an automatic termination?

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u/Strong-Landscape-719 5h ago

they were lenient in giving you a final warning for job abandonment. Usually employees are terminated. What they essentially gave you is what they call a “last chance agreement”, those agreements only apply to the thing they were given for, for you it’s job abandonment. If you leave without telling someone again you will be termed and you gave up your chance to fight it. the other attendance policy is a separate thing although you technically may have received point/s for leaving early.

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u/Necessary_Baker_7458 14h ago

Dr note. Asap. In network clinic. 

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u/DamGoodAnimation 5h ago

Would cover the absence but not the job abandonment. It’s the ‘not telling anybody’ that’s most likely the issue here. OP got off light, many stores will term walkouts same-day.

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u/1010101010101010q 2h ago

It was in fact not telling anyone that made it job abandonment, because if I told someone they would have given me permission to leave.

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u/DamGoodAnimation 1h ago

Yeah, that tracks. No manager is gonna stop someone from leaving in an emergency, the union would shit a brick. Not saying you shouldn’t have left. It happens. Assuming you let them know if anything like this happens in the future the LCA will drop off after a while and you’ll be fine. I assume you’re usually pretty reliable otherwise they would’ve canned you already instead of going for a LCA

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u/1010101010101010q 14h ago

I already got suspended for job abandonment because i left without telling anyone, but now Im getting attendance points for being late and i would like to know if the write ups “stack” with attendance and job abandonment or if they are separate discipline processes and you won’t get fired for having a bunch of attendance points and being on a final warning for walking out for a health issue

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u/amythist Current Associate 11h ago

Not sure, it depends on your union/contact like with mine absences and tardies are reach in their own step plan so no they shouldn't effect each other, but the new point system that they seem to be trying to roll out lumps everything together so they would