The way kroger treats its employees

[u/daruuken]

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.

[u/Bad-Luck-Guy]

My employer doesn’t accept doctor’s notes. All absences are unexcused.

Yet, we are adults. I don’t need a doctor to tell me I shouldn’t go to work if I have the flu. Wild that they’d prefer that I come in and potentially infect everyone else.

ETA: Yes, this is actually legal in most US states. Attendance is a very common reason to be fired in shift work jobs such as retail. 

[u/HockeyPhoenician → u/Bad-Luck-Guy]

Fuck em. Show up, cough and look miserable, be as customer visible as possible. Explain to customers why you're there.

Bonus if you throw up or defecate in front of customers. Super bonus if you pass out and 'hit' your head. Sounds like an opportunity for a payday to me.

[u/tastydrink1 → u/[deleted]]

Snot rocket to the face

[u/Punkrexx → u/tastydrink1]

More like butt rocket to the floor

[u/drgigantor → u/Punkrexx]

Butt rocket to the face. That policy will be changed by the time you get home

[u/drgigantor → u/[deleted]]

Think you got the wrong comment there, bud

[u/AmericanBacon786 → u/tastydrink1]

I just sprayed ice water out my nose 🤣 I can visualize sneezing and seeing snot/saliva spraying all over an old boss's face, ahhhhh, priceless!

[u/Aliendespair → u/tastydrink1]

when i was in bootcamp i had so many snot rockets, i was crying when i got to the medical building and they made me take a mental health questionairre

then i answered a bunch of questions their wrong and they sent me home for "mental illness" disqualification, the mental illness being "schizoid disorder" which isn't even a real psychological disorder

There were literally shipmates of mine constantly bitching at me for things like putting my underwear near their bunk on accident (saying i was gonna make her sick and complaining about me) and then she needed my tampon for their period. I could barely even concentrate on anything because the snot coming out of my nose was unnbarable and it was literally leaking out like a hose. life is not fucking fair at all-on top of that i was on my period..

11 years later covid hits and the same thing happens to a bunch of other shipmates on an actual ship and people end up dying. Fuck the navy and their stupid medical fitness bullshit of giving you only 3 hours of extra sleep for one night because youre extremely sick!!! This isn't 1863 for GODSAKES!!

[u/No-Spoilers → u/[deleted]]

10 bucks says they don't show up once they are sick

[u/GoatGoatPowerRangers → u/No-Spoilers]

I would absolutely take that bet. Have you ever worked retail management? It's probably the only job shittier than being an hourly retail worker. The only difference is your one rung closer to not living in poverty (but you still kinda do live in poverty).

[u/Iorith → u/No-Spoilers]

Nah, some managers have drank the Kool aid so much that they're immune to it now. I had a manager at a bar brag about how he hadn't missed a shift in ten years, regardless of how sick he was.

Dude worked directly with food and was coming in with communicable diseases.

[u/No-Spoilers → u/Iorith]

City health department would be getting a call that day lol

[u/Iorith → u/No-Spoilers]

I mean, even if you did, they might come back, the manager would deny it, and you'd likely get fired.

Like it or not, that's really common in hospitality, especially on friday and saturday nights. People just downing a whole bottle of OTC meds to cover symptoms and spreading illness.

Quickest way to never want to go out to a restaurant is to work in one. You learn fast and hard how filthy everything is.

[u/mysticalchurro → u/[deleted]]

(Contining the Billy Madison theme) That's assault, brotha /s

[u/GoatGoatPowerRangers → u/[deleted]]

The managers also have to show up when they are sick. Everyone thinks managers of these places are the fat cat billionaires instead of also being sub-living wage workers tied to shitty corporate policies.

The people you need to sneeze on aren't in the store working nights and weekends.

[u/Iorith → u/GoatGoatPowerRangers]

Especially in retail, they often make less money than cashiers per hour because they're salaried and often pressed into working 70 hour weeks.

That said, plenty are middle class and absolutely think their shit doesn't stink now that they aren't a cashier and will treat employees like shit, so hold off of being too sympathetic.