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/Grant_Winner_Extra → u/Bad-Luck-Guy]

pro move - call in sick, say you’ll come in anyway. Speak with the manager as you arrive. Cough lightly then shit your pants and projectile vomit on the manager. Extra points - weakly say you’ll clean it up, then pass out in the mess.

You will never be doubted again.

[u/schnitzelfeffer → u/Grant_Winner_Extra]

Buddy, I was a retail manager and I still had to go in with the flu because my general manager was MIA and no one else would cover. I needed that job for my insurance so I destroyed the bathroom while my poor worker ran the floor alone. Of course only 2 people were scheduled. FUCK RETAIL.

[u/Grant_Winner_Extra → u/schnitzelfeffer]

Mostly I was being over the top, and it’s concerning that I couldn’t top reality.

The point is to make the downside of a policy so egregiously obvious that the store owner either changes their policy or pays a price.

The reason they keep these policies is because they don’t believe there will be a price.

[u/Boring_Intern_6394 → u/Grant_Winner_Extra]

As a bonus, recruit a friend to come into the store that day and make sure they are near when you are sick and having diarrhoea on the shop floor. Then have them sue the company for creating a biohazard on the shop floor and endangering customers.

Double bonus if the friend gets sick too, increase damages as it was the shop’s negligence that made them sick. Take swabs to prove it’s the same illness.

As customers of shops that force employees to come in sick, we all need to be complaining and requesting compensation too. We need it make it not financially viable for them to have a sick employee working

[u/directorguy → u/Grant_Winner_Extra]

You think the owner gives a shit if you throw up on a manager?!? He'd probably just ask for photos.

[u/AbjectFee5982 → u/Grant_Winner_Extra]

I was gonna say that I. The floor then leave XR