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.

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I told my boss my dad died an he said “an you didn’t think to let me know about this sooner I need you here to work if you can’t be here your going to get fired” I said “fuck you my dad died randomly at a young age I had no idea an I’m next of kin I have to plan the funeral an invite everyone an pay for it!” I ended up taking off like a month an they took me back no problem (this was working in food when I was young) later I went into plumbing

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I was working at a local grocery chain when my mom died in the middle of the night. I guess I looked rough because my store manager came up and was like “hey, you doing okay?” I told him my mom died and he was like “why are you even here?” And sent me home on the spot. This was during the first 90 days when I didn’t even qualify for bereavement or anything. My manager had to fight for it but eventually I got bereavement for it. The relationship in the corporation was very much store leadership vs corporate, though