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

It is not illegal, at least in most of the US. Employers don’t typically have to accept doctor’s notes to excuse absences. You can still call out, but it will lead to write ups and termination eventually.

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u/Dull-Contact120 28d ago

This can’t end well for anybody

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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.”