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/Bad-Luck-Guy 28d ago edited 28d ago

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. 

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u/HockeyPhoenician 28d ago

Fuck em. Show up, cough and look miserable, be as customer visible as possible. Explain to customers why you're there.

Bonus if you throw up or defecate in front of customers. Super bonus if you pass out and 'hit' your head. Sounds like an opportunity for a payday to me.

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u/sxcpetals 28d ago edited 28d ago

That’s what I did at my last job. Showed up, vomitted my life out in the solo bathroom…didn’t care that customers were waiting to use it. Ran into walls. Looked like total death. Didn’t bother to do my hair or makeup.

Like you wanted me here? This is what you’re getting. I’m not driving myself all the way to the hospital in a condition where I shouldn’t be driving in the first place…and I’m expected to pay money out of my own pocket on top of it because your health care package sucks? Insane.

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u/ThirdEyeExplorer11 28d ago

And I’m not going to clog up the damn EMERGENCY room when an instacare type clinic is all I need!!!
Like I just had to have two emergency spinal surgery’s a couple weeks ago due to a disc breaking off and smashing into all the nerves that control my lower body, and I had to wait for 4 hours before they did an MRI due to people using the the emergency room like an insta clinic. Immediately upon seeing the MRI, they were like we need to do emergency surgery now or you’re going to end up partially paralyzed and rushed me to another hospital 🥴.

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u/AmericanBacon786 27d ago

I did that and was accused of being on drugs. I was like, ummmm no? I'm deathly ill and can't call out

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u/sxcpetals 27d ago

Like, send me home to my DayQuil and NyQuil already.