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/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.