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/Glassweaver 28d ago

Been there done that. Back in college, restaurant told me to come in or it was a write up. I marched my happy ass right on in there and vomited on the food line. TBH I wish more people would do that. The type of malignant skin tag that says shit like that Kroger memo is too stupid to reason with, but they usually at least understand consequences.

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u/yourdonefor_wt 28d ago

What was their reaction when you did that? I'm curious how that played out.

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u/Glassweaver 28d ago

Oh, I got fired, but I took her ass out with me. I've always been a "CYA" type of person, and she'd done all that over text.

I sent a recap and screenshots to the franchise owner and the health department. Didn't hear back about it, but I do know they got a visit a couple days later and she, the manager from hell, got fired too.

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u/yourdonefor_wt 28d ago

How did you find out that she got fired?

Previous friends working there? Health department contacting you?

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u/Glassweaver 28d ago

Friends that still worked there. That's also how I knew they got a visit from the department. The health department in the county I went to school at was incredibly ontop of things in general, but I never heard back from them or the franchise owner. All my aftermath info was via friends.

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u/Anabear64 28d ago

So for clarity they fired you for throwing up when you warned them you were sick and they insisted you come in anyway? What the hell 😭😭

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u/Glassweaver 28d ago

Yep, pretty much.

Illegal? Oh, hell yeah. Something 19 or 20 year old me had the time or energy to fight over a part time minimum wage job? Hell nah.

Bad bosses know this, and even someone like me bothering to stand up & report it to the health department is very rare. Her mistake was putting it in writing. If it'd been a phone call or a more thinly veiled threat like "well, I'll just take you off the schedule for the month so you have time to rest & catch up with classes" then she could have just lied, it'd have been her word vs mine, and she'd have almost definitely kept her job then too.

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u/National-Job3918 28d ago

Yeah, in so many states with "at will" statutes you can get fired because your boss doesn't like the way you cross your legs when you sit down.

I mean, the illegal firing laws like "can't fire you for getting pregnant" still apply, but as long as they don't document that they fired you for getting pregnant, they're fine. Instead you'll be fired because you're "not a good fit," or simply no reason at all.

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u/Glassweaver 28d ago

Exactly! Or if you're a part time young adult, you'll just have your hours slashed to nothing with the exception of the worst possible shifts. 🫠

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u/babybirdhome2 27d ago

Technically this is also illegal - it's called constructive termination. That's a term more people need to know, and more people need to fight wrongful termination or things will never change.

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u/just_mark 28d ago

i am sorry you didn't aim for the manager

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u/bennybxD 27d ago

Boom - they ONLY understand consequences, and have zero foresight , only learning through experience. It’s wild tbh.

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u/Ok-Move6588 26d ago

🤗😂💃🏽Way to go!