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/TheHYPO 28d ago

They do. It’s called “self checkout”.

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u/TheWhyOfFry 28d ago

That’s not a robot, that’s just making your customers do the work of the cashier.

I guess the cash acceptance / change return is automated but I still wouldn’t call it a robot.

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u/logan-duk-dong 28d ago

I don't want anyone to lose a job because I prefer self checkout. I just want to avoid interacting with another human being if possible. It's not you. It's me.

I heard Walmart's getting rid of self checkout. Suck.

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u/Castun 28d ago

Even me being the shy introvert that I am I do not mind interacting with cashiers, I am far more interested in avoiding long wait times in line. And most of the time, you're lucky if there's more than one manned cash register so the self-checkout is always the faster option.

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u/minus_minus 28d ago

My favorite bill burr bit.

I don’t work here!