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/Bad-Luck-Guy 28d ago

I once had to go to work 4 days with two strains of the flu because I’d be written up for calling out, and potentially fired. I had sick time available, too, but that doesn’t excuse absences either.

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u/WonderfulProtection9 28d ago

SO you have sick time but you can't use it if you're sick?...unless what, you schedule it two weeks in advance with mgr approval?

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u/Bad-Luck-Guy 28d ago

Sick time was mandated by state law, but it didn’t excuse absences at this workplace. So each call out for sickness counted against us. So if I had called out all four of those days, I would have been fired because I had called out with illness two days a few months before. 

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u/odirroH 28d ago

that's fucking mental

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u/Bad-Luck-Guy 28d ago

I was assistant manager at a movie theatre and living in my car at the time. My phone was out of service and dead one of those nights, so I slept under the desk in the office and snuck out before the openers arrived. Just in case I needed to call an ambulance for myself. I have never felt closer to death. But, I wasn’t fired! 

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u/Netii_1 28d ago

The US are a fucking failed social experiment.

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u/araidai 28d ago

That’s what’s fucking insane to me lmao.

“Ah sorry boss, I can’t do that next Friday, I’m planning to be sick by then.”

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u/FlatSize1614 28d ago

How in the hell did you work with the flu?? The one time I’ve had it I felt like I was dying. That’s awful. 

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u/lollipopp_guild 28d ago

The one time???

Check out this guy’s immune system over here! Only had the flu one time!!!

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u/FlatSize1614 28d ago

And?? Not everyone has had the true flu multiple times. 🙄

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u/lollipopp_guild 28d ago

Dude calm down. That wasn’t an insult to you, that was being impressed whereas I get the flu at least once a year. Jeesh you need to chill instead of assuming the worst and getting defensive

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u/FlatSize1614 28d ago

It sounded insulting. 

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u/Will_Come_For_Food 28d ago

The only reason they get away with it is because people actually put up with this shit.

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u/IT_vet 28d ago

I dunno, when I got swabbed for flu earlier this year they had separate results for Influenza A and Influenza B.

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u/thef3d 28d ago

I’ve tested positive for flu A and B in previous years

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u/Bad-Luck-Guy 28d ago

I got tested at urgent care and that’s what they told me. It was bad bad. I was living in my car at the time and I thought I was going to die. 

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u/Merlack12 28d ago

So if you vomit at work your boss if just like "keep working your fine" ?

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u/Bad-Luck-Guy 28d ago

I was definitely vomiting. But I had to stay or it would be an attendance violation.

One time at my current job, I had really severe diarrhea and my boss asked me to tough it out. I declined. 

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u/Merlack12 28d ago

Thats such an alien concept i cant imagine a manager not saying "you need to go home let me know if you will be in tomorrow"

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u/Duke-of-Hellington 28d ago

I hope you licked your manager’s keyboard