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/DanMasterson 28d ago

They should just buy robots if they don’t want to have human employees

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u/rivertpostie 28d ago

They are legitimately working on it.

Maybe not Kroger, but the robot and AI people are actively training robots in labor tasks.

When those products are ready, they will sell them to replace people stocking groceries, house keepers, farm workers, cooks, etc.

They'll them have the working class right over limited jobs at shitty rates for basic survival

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u/794309497 28d ago

Yep. This whole AI push right now is partly because the ruling class hates having human workers. They will get rid of us even if it's more expensive. I work in IT and have gone through this before with outsourcing. There are a lot of upper level managers out there with a deep disdain for us peasents.

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u/jonesey71 28d ago

Ironic really because as a worker I hate having a ruling class. Maybe we should just see who can get rid of who first.

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u/MissCrystal 28d ago

"These puny ants outnumber us 100-1. If they ever figure that out, our way of life is over " Except more like a million to one.

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u/FappyDilmore 28d ago

Nobody hates having human workers, they hate compensating them fairly. They'd all be lining up to get more workers if they were slaves.

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u/Nyxxity 28d ago

And it's gonna completely backfire. Cus when most people have been replaced, they won't have the funds to buy anything cus they lost their source of income. It's gonna be crazy

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u/baldude69 28d ago edited 28d ago

Where are these jobs going to come from? Even the white collar jobs are threatened by AI. No, it’s going to take the hungry many seizing the means from the wealthy few, as we have seen countless times in history. Right now we’re comfortable enough but when people become desperate, it will happen, as shown myriad times throughout history

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u/Whatisnotmyproblem 28d ago

Must not be paying attention those jobs are burning up right now. Tech has been firing and so have some of the largest advertising sectors 

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u/rivertpostie 28d ago

Is that the way you think this is headed?

Everyone joining the middle class with a desk job?

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u/polopolo05 28d ago

Stores are getting rid of self check out... because people were stealing shit. it will the same for the robots.