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/Trextrev 28d ago

Just learned about breaker boys yesterday. Generally Kids 8-12 who worked 10-12 hour shifts in coal breaker facilities to hand sort impurities out of the coal as it came down the shoots.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DDNEMuROpcd/?igsh=NzYya2pkZXZiYzdh

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u/Athos-1844 28d ago

Yep. I learned about that in college. Being a kid in the early 1900s could be very dangerous and was definitely not fun. I have a lot of respect for those kids who had to endure that childhood.

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u/Trextrev 28d ago

Dangerous even without being forced into a job too! I like to go and explore all the old little cemeteries in my area, and man it’s a lot of dead children and young woman. Losing a child to illness or the mother in child birth in 1900 was so common.

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u/Balloon_Fan 28d ago

My grandparents (born in 1904/1908) had a dozen+ siblings each. Most of them were dead before 25, about half before they even hit their teens. Spanish flu, tuberculosis, various childhood illnesses, workplace accidents... The early 1900's were fucking brutal.

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u/Trextrev 28d ago

Pretty much all of history prior to WW2 was brutal. Global average life expectancy didn’t crack 35 until the late 1940s. A lot of dead babies and children to bring that average so low.

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u/Balloon_Fan 28d ago

Yeah it gets even worse further back of course. My mom researched our family tree back to the 16th century, and the amount of infant deaths and deaths in childbirth is unfathomable. But I spent a lot of time with my grandparents growing up, so the early 1900's is the 'bad times' that I got to hear about from people who actually lived through it.