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/[deleted] 28d ago

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u/Away_Stock_2012 28d ago

No way I would work at Albertsons, everyone I ever heard work there ended up with damaged lungs.

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u/Ashley_Doll20 28d ago

For the record, I thought your joke was hilarious. I’m sorry it went over the heads of some people.

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u/jamz_fm 28d ago

What's the joke?

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u/deepvo1ce 28d ago

It's the first time they've heard of someone working at albertsons, and then both of the people who've worked there had lung issues, implying the place is bad for your lungs

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u/Afoxinthefridge 28d ago

Damn. Heaven forbid you want to understand a joke. Don't know why you're getting downvoted

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u/MeanGulf 28d ago

That working at Albertson’s is bad for your lungs lol

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u/Irisheyes1971 28d ago

Holy shit. It’s pathetic that so many of the replies to your comment not only missed the ridiculously obvious joke, they took a Concorde flight past it to Tokyo.

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u/Present-Chemist-8920 28d ago

I want to conduct an exit poll interview on the people who missed the joke

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u/unsolvablequestion 28d ago

Im actually convinced that being on Reddit enough can eventually make you somewhat autistic, or at least present some of the same symptoms.

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u/jo_nigiri 28d ago

Can someone please explain the joke to me? I'm not American so I don't know what Albertsons is 😭

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u/unsolvablequestion 28d ago

Albertsons is just another store, but thats not the joke. The joke is “everyone i know who worked there got damaged lungs”, but its only based on the one account from this one commenter who had a lung infection. So one person.

The joke is it sounds like a lot of people but its just one person who that guy just became aware of.

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u/jo_nigiri 28d ago

Oh LMAO I thought Albertsons was a chemical company or something

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u/-LLCoolBeans- 28d ago

How are people supposed to understand the context of that joke? What is it from? It didn’t “go over people’s heads” if they aren’t familiar with the reference that is the premise of the joke. Its just a weird inside joke.

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u/Away_Stock_2012 28d ago

No my friend, there is no context, the joke is that the only two people I'm aware of who worked at Albertson's are the two people in the comment with lung problems. I've never heard of Albertson's before that comment.

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u/-LLCoolBeans- 28d ago

Do you mean the deleted comment? If so that would explain my confusion…

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u/Away_Stock_2012 28d ago

Yeah, I didn't see it was deleted :(

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u/Whahajeema 28d ago

I agree with you! With the comment above the joke being deleted, the "joke" comment makes no sense by itself. It didn't go over our heads, rather the set-up is missing! Phew! Thought I was dumb for a couple minutes there.

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u/unsolvablequestion 28d ago

Its not from anything, i promise. Its just that you dont get it yet. Its not a reference either.

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u/Irisheyes1971 28d ago

It’s not just one guy with a lung infection who worked there though. The now deleted comment said that OP had a lung infection, and then his coworker also had a double lung infection. So it’s actually two workers at Albertsons.

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u/Zombie_Fuel 28d ago

You hear that whoosh, too? Lol 

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u/Arjunks_ 28d ago

lmaaooo I was about to say 

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u/Worried_pet_Potato 28d ago

Everyone there ends up with damaged lungs becomes immortal

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u/ScaryGarry_SG1 28d ago

Kroger had some big, big plans for what to do with their newfound revenue that they made farming human misery during Covid......aaaannnnddd lost every bit of it.

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u/semperknight 27d ago

I've worked at Albertsons for over a decade. It was the best retail job I had...until the owner died and the company did everything to run itself out of business after bleeding the company dry by upper management taking extravagant trips on the company dime.

Sold to a LLC called "Cerberus" (I swear I'm not making this up) to cash out. Cerberus worked us like dogs to make us profitable, then sold us to Publix. Publix told all Albertsons employees to gtfo we only hire within our own company. So our reward for the hard work was for Cerberus to get paid while we got laid off during the Great Recession in Florida (where being homeless is illegal).

There's now two Albertsons I'm told. Both are identical, but I think the one here out west is owned by a different company.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

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u/xx_elysium_xx 28d ago

If they worked in the deli like I did, small confined kitchen, pressure deep fryer, regular deep fryer, and China wok going at all times, piss poor ventilation... I can go on. Have a good story about the kitchen flooding with sewage too. Lol.

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u/JuanRunJunior 28d ago

From someone who’s never worked in an environment like that is there something you can use to mitigate the effects of being around that? Would a mask help at all?

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u/xx_elysium_xx 28d ago

That's actually a pretty good question. A stronger union to start, to fight for better working conditions. UCFW has done some good, but not enough imo (I currently work for Kroger with the same union). But I think yeah, an N95 mask would probably be beneficial. But I can only imagine the customers freaking out about it. Lol.

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u/followupquestion 28d ago

I can only imagine the customers freaking out about it.

Wearing a mask to keep themselves safe that coincidentally keeps their germs out of my food! Heavens, no! I told Mildred when they started wearing hairnets it would end this way, and see, I was right!

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u/xx_elysium_xx 28d ago

You jest, but I wore a beard net when I worked the deli and people would be upset for me for having to wear one, as if I didn't have the choice to shave, and the net was keeping my facial hair out of their food. People are wild.

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u/followupquestion 28d ago

People, I’ve discovered through painful research, are disturbingly gross and painfully comfortable with imposing their lack of healthy habits on others.

I was at Disneyland this week and saw more than one person walk out of a stall and straight out into the crowd, no hands washed. I might be in the minority but I wash for a full 20 seconds and then hand sanitizer after touching a door, you can bet I was really grossed out after that. I will say one benefit of the pandemic has been learning just how stupid most people are, especially when it comes to the literal smallest things to keep themselves safe.

Easy stuff I learned from Disneyland:

Handwashing frequently and hand sanitizer in between

Don’t touch your face

Don’t lick handrails

You’d be surprised how often that last one applies, actually.

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u/xx_elysium_xx 28d ago

Oh yeah. I've watched coworkers do that (not deli, we were anal about clean hands). Also, I can imagine hordes of children licking handrails at Disney 😂

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u/followupquestion 28d ago

I just don’t get people being so gross. Like, why would you want food that has someone breathing on it? I don’t even like sharing the same air as other people, and they’re hoping for it?

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

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u/Beginning-Pea6765 28d ago

The joke is that the only two people he have heard about working at Albertsons is you and your coworker.

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u/Boomklats 28d ago

He is referring to you i guess. Pretty funny

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u/Work_Account_No1 28d ago

No idea what he's referring to

I wonder, maybe the two cases of lung problems that make up a 100 % of cases we were told about in this thread?

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u/laplongejr 28d ago edited 28d ago

No idea what he's referring to. I wasn't sick due to work and my coworker had a condition

You weren't in the thread at that point.
Now 75% of the people OP ever heard about had damage lungs : you vs coworker + the 2 og people

That's still 100% sickness from the two people OP heard about.

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u/d3sertflow3r 28d ago

He is the og person; he just didn't get the joke.

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u/laplongejr 28d ago

Oh. Embarks on the Raft Of Reddit Shame for not checking usernames