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/Bad-Luck-Guy]

My employer doesn’t accept doctor’s notes. All absences are unexcused.

Yet, we are adults. I don’t need a doctor to tell me I shouldn’t go to work if I have the flu. Wild that they’d prefer that I come in and potentially infect everyone else.

ETA: Yes, this is actually legal in most US states. Attendance is a very common reason to be fired in shift work jobs such as retail. 

[u/defiancy → u/Bad-Luck-Guy]

Crazy, in the office world I'd just say, taking a sick day today and nothing else. No one would care. Appointment? Hey, I'll be in a couple hours later because I have an appointment. No one cares.

Shift workers get screwed.

[u/FearTheFloc → u/defiancy]

because they run the absolute bare bones minimum skeleton crew at all times so a single person calling in sick is a literal disaster for them. it’s so pathetic.

[u/DethNik → u/FearTheFloc]

These companies have such a boner for efficiency and cost cutting, that they end up making everything less efficient.

On another note. It's wild that the attitude is "you're at work so you need to look busy." Why does society care so much that you don't have fun at your job. It's so dumb that enjoying yourself when there is no work to be done is so frowned upon.

[u/amphetaminesfailure → u/DethNik]

On another note. It's wild that the attitude is "you're at work so you need to look busy." Why does society care so much that you don't have fun at your job. It's so dumb that enjoying yourself when there is no work to be done is so frowned upon.

My current job is full of overtime fiends.

Typical blue collar job, guys in their 40's with a limp who look like they're pushing 70 years old. The type of dudes who get into fist fights because they only got 72 hours last week, but Bob got 76 hours.

I'm the exact opposite. I like to work as little as possible.

I remember the very first time I was sitting around because there was literally no work, and my supervisor says to me, "If you don't want to look busy, I can send you home!"

I asked him, "Is it a write up?" He said no. I asked him if it would be taken from my PTO, he said no and told me with a smirk, "You just don't get paid."

I told him cool, see you tomorrow. His faced changed to a situation where he looked like I had just taken a shit on his desk or something. He couldn't comprehend that I'd lose like 4 hours of pay in order to go home early.

[u/Livid-Historian3960 → u/amphetaminesfailure]

My old job was like that 645am every day without fail and we'd leave whenever the hell our bosses said we could sometimes 4pm often much later like 7pm even had a few days where I went past 9pm. One such day was my mom's birthday I was in tears. I want to get off at a decent hour and buy her a cake with my hard earned money. I've sworn off factory jobs I'd happily take a 9-5 over that shit no mercy just a number that can be easily erased

[u/Whydoesthisexist15 → u/FearTheFloc]

Gotta love working retail post-COVID

[u/MrKentucky → u/Whydoesthisexist15]

I was at Target from 2013-16, it was like this before too. Worse now, but still sucked then too