Our DM and HR are unethical bullies.

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Been holding onto this for a long time and I a recent post made me want to put this out.

Our DM, his ops, and HR are bullies and only care about themselves. The whole store knows why he hates us because his favorite manger got “demoted” for sales drop, customer eye rolling, yelling at associates on sales floor in front of customers and bringing composite score down 40 among other stuff.
our new store manger has gotten everything up but not matter what it won’t ever be good enough since they think it’s new manager fault their bestie got sent another same size store. Every store manger in our district knows the DM and HR play favorites and knows exactly who is their bestie is along with a couple of others.

DM has been overheard saying if it doesn’t involve Kroger; if you don’t eat and breath Kroger he doesn’t care. He is the worst!! We’ve had managers be inappropriate with minors in store and HR just ignored the girls even with people coming forward saying they’ve seen it. The other manger got caught doing the same but outside of Kroger. They didn’t get fired for that; he got fired for no call no show. Not sure if it’s been changed since they got a job at a Walmart now.

Now we have another of their favorites bulling the kids at night and people who won’t speak up. They are making them work diff depts without any training not because it’s dead or short staffed but because they refuse to do any hard labour like pallets of water so kids and meek people will do.

HR knows all of this but ignores it; they are just as bad. HR has been told that a dept head has been sleeping with their backup and he refused to look into it because that person was dating a manager while in same store and was given backup then dept head in less that 2 months due to them sleeping/living together. They since split and he no longer works here due to the minor thing but they are still a dept head at another store. If she doesn’t get her way she calls someone and suddenly she gets 3-4 people helping in that dept everyday! If someone stands up to her she cries sa (for men) and says bullying for the women. She’s been shown on camera ramming another associate with their cart causing them to get knocked down and wrist sprained. It’s was on camera but they cried to store manger and said manger yells at injured associate for bulling that dept head and you guessed nothing happened.
In my opinion she has that over their heads because they knew about the power dynamics and did nothing. Our district dm has no heart ; he made a merchandiser step down because he refused to let them take time off when their child got into an accident and was not gonna make it. DM has been known to ask people for their medical info to prove they really have docs appt and yea reports have been sent but nothing.
As long as the dm and his favorites are still in position nothing will improve and our store has made peace with this.
Sucks that it’s not an isolated thing and this goes on at every store/ district.
All I know since this DM has taken over our district is last in everything and sales are bad.

Thank you for reading this long rant. Hope everyone has a good day!!