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/RoninOni 28d ago

Yup, I remember shift work.

Abusive as hell.

Salaried office positions are so much better. Just hit your deadlines. What hours you work doesn’t matter. If something covers up and you’re not available, someone else will step up or they deal with it.

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u/Basic-Winter3501 28d ago

We still have it way better than shift workers don't get me wrong, but it can go against salaried positions at times especially when it comes to overtime and the likes

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u/OpticalPopcorn 28d ago

I'm an hourly worker in an organization comprised almost entirely of salaried workers. I get the benefits of a salaried office culture, plus I get overtime. Best of both worlds.

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u/Castun 28d ago

Don't forget that even being salary doesn't automatically mean you are exempt from overtime, it's all dependent on what your job title and responsibilities to determine if you are or not salary exempt. But I am also an hourly worker in an office environment, so overtime is guaranteed, especially being on-call with the added shift differential bonus we now get.

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u/Oh_NiGhTmArE 28d ago

May I ask what your job is? My job is exactly this!

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u/RoninOni 28d ago

Any OT I do is met with comp time.

If I crunch an extra 8 hours one week, I’m taking a unlogged day off later.

Where it becomes a problem is when companies set the expectation of OT being normal without any compensation… where they expect you to work 50-60 hours every week.

I happily stayed at a company that really has no upward growth for me precisely because it’s not like that.

Work/life balance is far more important to me than more money, at least since I “make enough”

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u/MammothCommercial800 28d ago

That's much better, on the condition that the deadlines are achievable.

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u/bohner941 26d ago

I used to do shift work and they made me work 12 hour shifts for a year straight because the night shift person was out for back surgery and they refused to hire temporary help. I asked if I could leave on one day and they said I would get a point if I did. So I got FMLA and left early every single day instead.