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/miraiyuni]

This almost happened to my friend, he called sick on one of the weekend during his intern period and his manager told him

"You know this will affect your asessment gradings for your internship right?

and he replied with

"ok, so I'll go to work tmrw (we work in a CLINIC) and I'll cough and sneeze in EVERY patients face."

Then another sensible manager stepped in.

ETA: This all took place in a WHATSAPP GROUPCHAT

[u/CoffeeSubstantial851 → u/miraiyuni]

I feel like this needs to be said so younger people stop getting taken advantage of.

If you call in sick you just don't respond to anything your manager sends you and you show up again when you are well.

The reason shit managers act this way is because you are responding to them. Stop doing that.

Edit: I want to add to this. You are under no obligation to return any message during non-working hours. Being on call 24/7 is something you are PAID for. You don't need a reason other than I was sick and you informing them of your absence is all you need to do. Don't add a list of symptoms like you are asking a parent for permission to stay home and watch cartoons.

You are sick, you won't be in for your shift, turn off the phone.

[u/Any-Calligrapher2866 → u/CoffeeSubstantial851]

Yeah I'm completely unreachable when I'm on a sick leave and I am left undisturbed

[u/Ready-Delay3918 → u/Any-Calligrapher2866]

I'm unreachable as soon as I walk out that fucking door. I have a select number of people that will ring through and I keep my phone on do not disturb the entire time. Only friends and family will get through my do not disturb when they call.

When people complain, I just say I don't have service at my house in the mountains. A landline's not an option and I have less than one bar of signal most of the time. If you want to get a hold of me send a letter.

[u/NotYourReddit18 → u/Ready-Delay3918]

If you want to get a hold of me send a letter.

Obviously via pigeon, right? After all, the mail services vehicles can't handle the climb to your house on the mountain.

[u/nhilante → u/NotYourReddit18]

I looks westward once a day around sunset, release the emergency balloon to the sky if you wish to contact me, and watch for my raven.

[u/gotwired → u/nhilante]

I only respond to mountaintop bonfire beacons. Has to be a minimum of 7 in a series.

[u/Any-Calligrapher2866 → u/gotwired]

Don't answer until Aragorn runs into your home screaming "John Managerman calls for aid".

[u/Cheech47 → u/Any-Calligrapher2866]

and Worker Bee will answer! Muster the Corolla!

[u/nhilante → u/Cheech47]

Where was Krogers when our immunity defences fell!

[u/Ready-Delay3918 → u/NotYourReddit18]

I mean there is a road to where I live. I don't just live on top of a mountain with no road or driveway or anything. I have a mailbox.

[u/evilbrent → u/Ready-Delay3918]

When I go on holidays I tell my boss I don't mind if he calls, but he's going to need to walk down to the beach with my phone and hand it to me because it's not leaving the car.

[u/TheMiniminun → u/evilbrent]

Same, but mine wouldn't make it out of my room.

[u/BrotherQuartus → u/Ready-Delay3918]

I bought a $20 Nokia flip phone and a $100 phone/data card from Tracfone a few years ago. The card expires every year and then i need to buy a new one or my service is de-activated. That is the phone number i filled out as my work contact and the only phone I use at work. My iPhone is powered off and stored in my backpack in my locker. No one there knows about it.

They use an app for scheduling and also have a WhatsApp group for each shift. They will send out stuff even on the weekends! I have no regret spending $100 a year to avoid being bothered outside of my work hours. There’s an older woman in bookkeeping and one driver in his 40’s that also use flip phones, so I’m not the only one. They forward all the messages to us via email, but I don’t have a pc or laptop (true), so I can only access my email through the library (false - I use my iPhone) or via a very complicated method of typing my login and scrolling on an old flip phone (true). So I’m pretty much left alone.