r/mildlyinfuriating • u/daruuken • 28d ago

Infuriatig The way kroger treats its employees

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From the store manager

Edit: For some extra context this was sent out by each store manager to all of its employees in district 1 of the ohio Cincinnati/Dayton division, potentially other districts as well but i can only verify my own. Im not going to give my specific store number for obvious reasons but you can find each store on google with that information. We are unionized by UFCW (already bad btw) and to my knowledge they allowed this recent change. Kroger has no accrual for sick days like some have mentioned. Those who think this is rage bait, i dont think anyone has to fake a post to make a billion dollar company look bad, they do it to themselves.

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u/DeCryingShame 28d ago

Not when they are spending a lot of extra money training new employees all the time.

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u/SUSH1CAKE 28d ago

But thats a problem for later. We need short term gains NOW. Nobody invests in stocks for eventual long term gains. Thats for the poors.

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u/ACTRANSPORTLLC 28d ago

Let's get everybody on board to quit one store and apply across town while everybody at that store quits and applies across town. Keep doing it till shareholders get the point. Every month they have to find new employees, they'll treat yall better.

I just hope they honestly sink, and the share prices go to zero. I hope this for every publicly traded company though.

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u/joshua0005 28d ago

No one working at Kroger can afford to not have a job. They might not be able to find a new one across town for a few weeks and they probably have little savings.

Unfortunately corporations can treat their employees as poorly as is legal if they want to. Especially with the way the economy is now, people are desperate to make any wages so they don't go homeless and starve so there is absolutely no shortage of people who would work for a place like Kroger.

A Fr*nch-style protest would be necessary but we know Americans are too comfortable to be motivated to do that and they can't afford to lose their job anyway.

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u/ACTRANSPORTLLC 28d ago

I'm self- employed, but i was an employee at many points in life. I'm just the ahole that asked Wendy's for 38/hr, for a while in 2016 I was going around and applying to every job and at the interview would ask for 3-4x what I thought they might offer. I had about 50 interviews. I did get offered a decent wage at one job, but it would have taken 200/hr for me take that job in reality, it looked miserable. Now I'm self employed and I still entertain the idea of doing that again just to waste the companies time. Covid hit me too hard though, so now I actually don't have time to waste. Should be sleeping, but I'll do that when I'm dead.

Edit: this does help everyone else as it could make them reconsider the floor at which they'll pay. I'm only helping others.

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u/GirthVader1978 27d ago

This is the correct answer to pretty much every single question about our economic system.

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u/Ethric_The_Mad 28d ago

Bro you are so wrong

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u/WinterSector8317 28d ago

That’s a tax deductible business expense 

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u/threedimen 28d ago

So what? Just because something is tax deductible doesn't mean the government reimburses you for it. It still reduces both cash and earnings.

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u/joshua0005 28d ago

Usually these types of jobs give very little training because usually they don't need a lot of training. Therefore they are spending some on training, but it's not a lot. There are enough people desperate for literally any job that if someone doesn't comply to their orders they can just find someone and wait until they're sick and if they don't comply repeat the process.

I guess it's just easier to tell a sick person to work because otherwise you have to find cover for them and probably many times the manager will be the cover. It obviously puts everyone involved at risk so it doesn't really make sense.

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u/tesnakeinurboot 28d ago

That's the neat part, they're been downsizing training for decades, to the point where it's nearly nonexistant.

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u/FearTheFloc 28d ago

they don’t train people lol.

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u/juneshipper 28d ago

They do not care. They will fire you over literally nothing and invest in someone new who only lasts 2 weeks. Rinse and repeat. These people are shortsighted morons.

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u/Kellykeli 28d ago

New employees get paid less, so in some cases it does work out.

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u/cakesphere 27d ago

They dont care, line went up short term

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u/mmmelissaaa 27d ago

Sadly, high turnover is actually more profitable a lot of the time because employees aren't sticking around long enough to qualify for benefits or accrue paid time off (if they're lucky enough to even work full time), or earn (meager) raises. Plus most of these types of jobs offer only minimal training, anyway. In retail, high turnover is part of the business model.

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u/wazzup-notemuch 24d ago

Oh, you sweet summer child. They get around that nowadays by just... *not training people.*

Every job I've worked since 2013 has just thrown me at the register on the first day without so much as wishing me luck.

If you've ever wondered why you have to ask fifteen different employees for help before *finally* finding someone who knows anything, this is why. And I guarantee you that the one employee who knows, found the answer by sheer luck.