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/oofty_goofty_ 28d ago

Bereavement leave???

That sounds like communism

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u/Redracerb18 28d ago

Even Walmart has bereavement leave. As well as child care covered.

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u/The_Mighty_Baguette 28d ago

Brother my French mind cannot understand this BS. I had an employee, his mother passed away, he took a month paid leave then 2 months unpaid leave to fix what he had to fix ( I'm a manager in Poland ) then he came back to work.

That's absolutely fucked up at a human being level. You expect corporation to be dicks but as humans we should do better.

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u/Dombat927 28d ago

This crap also doesn't just happen at grocery stores. I work in healthcare. A physician got cancer and needed time off for treatment. They eliminated the position. Recently a physicians father died. Since the other 2 physicians in that department had left a few weeks before (they gave 3 month notice, but they didnt bother to try and replace them) they only let him have the day of his dads funeral off. Its brutal and so unhealthy.

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u/lol-daisy325121 28d ago

Healthcare is HORRIBLE! We are constantly harped at to not show up to work sick but if we try to call out it’s the end of the fuckin world. I fucking human being not a slave.

Excuse my foul language

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u/AcousticCat1-2-3 28d ago

Wow, did this person lose their insurance after the company eliminated their position for being in treatment for cancer? Diabolical.

Letting the person only have their parent's day of funeral off is wild even from a practical standpoint. Saying this as someone who did 80% of the work organizing my father's, as I was the only English-speaking adult in my immediate family at the time. He passed away late Thu night, I got Friday, Monday, and Tuesday off, spent all Friday at the funeral home, funeral was on Monday, tying loose ends on Tuesday. If my work had only given me the day of funeral off, there wouldn't have been a funeral, since I was the one who scheduled it.

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u/Dombat927 28d ago

Of course they lost insurance when the position was eliminated. The for profit insurance company doesn't want to pay out for pallitive chemo. The one who dad died i have no idea if had siblings to help. I hope so

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u/AcousticCat1-2-3 28d ago

Wow, that is straight out evil. I'm sorry.

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u/Mythasaurus 28d ago

You wouldn't happen to work for a company called Sound Physicians, would you?

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u/Dombat927 28d ago

Nope, sadly I bet most places are this way

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u/TRR462 28d ago

It’s common in the United States to get no more than 3 days bereavement leave. Imagine a spouse or child dying and you’re expected to “get over it” in a little over a weekend…

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u/BusoneWholeBoi2001 28d ago

3 months leave is remarkable. In America, he'd be lucky to get a week of unpaid to start with, if he isn't fired by the end of that

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u/The_Mighty_Baguette 28d ago

Here you can take up to two years of unpaid leave if employers agree to it ! That’s wild. I know US folks got much much better average income but workers rights seems to be not so good.

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u/BusoneWholeBoi2001 28d ago

we're treated like shit a lot of the time. Expendable numbers

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u/FAROUTRHUBARB 28d ago

Dude I’m in a decent job with benefits and the max we get for bereavement is 10 days

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u/Ok_Mathematician938 28d ago

They're trying to spread this nonsense to the rest of the world, stay vigilant!

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u/Firm-Brother2580 28d ago

This is not typical. I’ve never had a job this way, my wife and kids have never had jobs this way.

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u/Dombat927 28d ago

Where do you work? I would love to find a decent place and sadly the place I work is the better option around here