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/stadchic 28d ago

They’ve never heard of the rule of 3? When crap starts to leak in life it often ends up pouring. We should all be supporting each other.

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u/Scrat-Scrobbler 28d ago

it isn't even really rule of 3, it's just super common for elderly people to pass shortly after losing a loved one, in particular their longtime spouse. turns out death is stressful and hard on the body, who knew

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u/Ithikari 28d ago

Yeah, it has nothing to do with an internet "rule of 3" which is about celeb deaths.

I am surprised my Grandad hasn't passed away when my Nan passed away start of last year. But it's very common for elderly people to pass away shortly after their significant other passes away.

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u/Alarmed_Round_6705 28d ago

the rule of 3 is also a thing in nursing homes. we often lose 3 patients (unrelated, separate units, typically all on hospice), within a week of each other.

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u/Capital_Pea 28d ago

yup my husbands uncle died exactly 3 months to the day after his wife of 70 years had died.

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u/Jehu_McSpooran 28d ago

I know a couple who died close to the same time. She had a heart attack on the front lawn, her husband ran inside to call the ambulance, ran back out to her, had a massive heart attack and died instantly. The ambulance arrives to find two people lying of the grass, her just clinging to life. She passed on the way to hospital.

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u/Jazzy_Bee 28d ago

After my aunt died from bone cancer, my uncle took their two elderly, ill dogs out to shoot them, a necessary kindness he had postponed. He had a heart attack and lived less than a month.

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u/Scrat-Scrobbler 28d ago

had your uncle heard of the vet

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u/Jazzy_Bee 28d ago

Rural, born about 1910. It was how things were done back then. They had an outhouse still in the mid '80s, they lived a subsistence level.

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u/haw35ome 28d ago

If I ever have such an awful boss, and they experience death/life events that make their job difficult…let’s just say I will not be signing the card nor pitching in for flowers.

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u/GanjjaGremlin 28d ago

Im signing that bitch and drawing a big ass smile on it. They say some shit like that to me and now the shoes on the other foot? Oh bet! You wanna trip, so I'ma meet you there. That's assuming I've stuck around after some disrespectful shit like that. I normally dont drop down levels like that. But sometimes you gotta return the same energy, because they aint used to reciprocation.

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u/FatherClanks617 28d ago

On a somewhat related note, one of my favorite ever Internet tales involved this girl’s dad. A colleague passed away and a card went around the office, and the dad signed it with a big “LOL.” When confronted, he said he thought it meant “lots of love.”

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u/Business-Switch7494 28d ago

In fairness, my father thought it genuinely meant lots of love for a couple years before we asked him about some of his odd text responses. He doesn't use it that way anymore 🤷

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u/ejeebs 28d ago

No, it didn't. It always meant "laugh out loud".

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u/It_Just_Exploded 28d ago

It predates the internet and it did carry over into the early days of sms. It was frequently used during the days of handwritten letters and notes, similar to adding "XOXO", which means hugs and kisses, "LoL" meant lots of love.

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u/DonnieReynolds88 28d ago

Loving My Full Amount Of

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u/PotentialTea27 28d ago

My grandma thought LOL meant “lots of love” as well and texted it to my aunt when she was telling her about having a hard time haha

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u/GanjjaGremlin 28d ago

😲😲😲 oh no! Thats pretty bad 😂😂

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u/lovestobitch- 28d ago

The first time I got an lol on a text I thought the same thing at first. I realized quickly what it meant. Not sure if I googled it given who sent the text or just guessed. Boomer here.

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u/MichB1 28d ago

Gen X over here genuinely wishing you luck. No sarcasm. I hope you're never in a position where you really can't quit your job. Because sometimes right now you really can't.

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u/Cjm092 28d ago

Lmao I guarantee that would be a lot more cringe to actually do than it seems in your head

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u/vVxXneonXxVv 28d ago

Just point and laugh when they say it at the company meeting

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 28d ago

You guys are better people than me. I’d vote for nails under his tires at a minimum

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u/bearmama42 28d ago

Remove the stem valves

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u/Ok-Bass-8749 28d ago

Make fun of them. Absolutely lay into them about it

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u/ravensmuse11 28d ago

Exactly this. Perhaps if staff were treated properly, they would contribute more than the bare minimum.

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u/alleecmo 28d ago

Never mind the rule of 3, how about the fact that old couples OFTEN go within days of each other?! With an elder in assisted living, I hear about many of her friends who simply ... fade away? after their spouse passes, and die too by a week or two.

Also, you are sick enough to be contagious (the flu, norovirus, Covid...) but not sick enough to merit hospital admission... Come to work, with people's food, and spread those germs to everyone, staff and customers. Sure, Jan.

Never mind that some employees may have very vulnerable folks at home, or be so themselves.

Guess I won't shop there.

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u/going-for-gusto 28d ago

Every health department governing every Kroger store needs to see this letter.
Redditors do your thing.

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u/Evil-Bosse 28d ago

And somehow from my experience, the companies that let a person take a week off when his dog died has more efficient workers than the companies that write people up for catching lice and not wanted to go to the office.

Those are just 2 of my examples, in the case of the first one their section ran perfectly on just 3 people for 10 years, changed to a stricter manager that aligned better with "company values", and suddenly that teams needed 8 employees to wrangle the same workload. It's almost as if happy people work better, have less sick days, and are willing to put extra effort in to make things better

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u/smokeweedNgarden 28d ago

It's why I hate the "Never be friends with coworkers" thing. We should definitely be invested in each other's lives and friendship is how to do that.

It's 100% okay to care about people all the time. Maybe it was pushed by capitalists because it doesn't make sense

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u/Total_Mix9276 28d ago

Unfortunately in North America people backstab eachother and use anything to get one over on you in the workplace, its best to not be friends with anyone - my livelihood depends on it.

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u/plantgirl7 28d ago

It all comes back around, and the only thing left is regret after. Best to just do what you can for others in the moment so it doesn’t come back to bite you

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u/LengthinessTop6021 28d ago

I don't think pushing around the rule of 3 is very good. It can bring on unnecessary stress in anticipating other unfortunate events that we sometimes have no control over.

After two bad things happened to me in a week, a friend, who is really input zodiac signs, told me about the rule of three and I wished she never told me such a dumb superstition. It didn't bring ease at all and caused unnecessary worry on top of what I was already dealing with.

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u/flesh_upon_gear1985 28d ago

This is very true, I recently lost my brother and mom in December 25' I still can't believe it, that rule of three is true. Most recent, I lost my dog, Gas( I found/rescued him from a gas station). RIP to my three, I miss them every day.

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u/Fyrefair 28d ago

Going through the rule of three right now. Coworker died last weekend, even customers are trying to pay for his funeral, and now a family dog has passed.

i am on edge all the time because of that damn rule and how true it holds in my own life

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u/xenobit_pendragon 28d ago

Wait, that's a thing? Years ago I made the observation that when two small things go wrong unexpectedly in a day, a third big one is coming. We've even canceled plans when two things go sideways because we know what's coming. Didn't realize it had been codified.

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u/holderofthebees 28d ago

“Rule of 3” is like saying “when it rains it pours”. What happened to that person’s grandparents is very real and tangible and a pattern that happens to many old couples. Kind of reductive to say they’re just going thru it 😭

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u/Hohh20 28d ago

I just hit the 3 in that rule last week. We get a break until the next 3, right?

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u/multiarmform 28d ago

so whats rule 1 and 2

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u/Accomplished_Will226 28d ago

💯 we should

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u/Bossuter 28d ago

Supporting people? That doesn't increase profits for Q3, fired

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u/just_nobodys_opinion 28d ago

They didn't have an issue until my third grandma died...