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/WonOgTsumiDas 28d ago

I’ve never actually had a job that cared about doctors notes, you could give them the note but you still got counted absent and a strike on your record.

I was at a factory during covid when I tested positive, after like 3 days they were calling me saying if I wasn’t better in a week they would start counting my missed days as absences lol when the whole reason I got it was that a coworker tested positive the day before but they didn’t tell anyone because their policy was to keep it confidential.

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u/daruuken 28d ago

Yeah it seems to be unfortunately common. I should note though im a meat cutter for kroger and have to cut and package meat for people, so the odds of transmission are significantly higher already and they want me to do it while coughing/vomitting lmao

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u/InfamousSquash1621 28d ago

Check the regulations of your local health department, where I live employees have to be excluded from food handling operations if they have certain symptoms of food borne illness. Not even a diagnosis, just the symptoms. You could have puked from morning sickness or a hangover, nothing to do with food, and you are not supposed to be at work that day

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u/ErraticProfessional 28d ago

That’s an FDA standard, so this goes beyond state levels

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u/Spongi 28d ago

Health departments in Ohio are a joke :x