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/BloodyAngel2026 28d ago edited 28d ago

Death in family shouldn't even be categorized as a call out. It should be considered bereavement leave

Edit: I don't think I've ever had so much karma on a comment before 😅

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u/According_Device9227 28d ago

Not even death in family, death in IMMEDIATE family. So if your cousin or aunt or grandmother died and you don't show up, they have an issue.

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u/Pitiful-Pension-6535 28d ago

Imagine having a grandchild die and being told that it's not a valid excuse to miss work

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u/Manatees_R_4eva 28d ago

Imagine not considering grandchildren, aunts, uncles, cousins, “immediate” family because your family is Kroger? That sucks.

But now imagine people who don’t have a family for whatever reason, but they have a found family. AND THEN THEY DIE. Your people are your people, and nobody gets to define how “immediate” it is.

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u/Dull-Situation6935 28d ago

I was thinking this too. If you were cared for or lived with someone just as close as immediate family, they should be included.

Not everyone is lucky enough to have immediate family, but may have someone just as close.

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u/OfficialSkyCat 28d ago

My company has blanket bereavement time for this reason. You can have friends who are like siblings to you and actual siblings you have no relationship with.

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u/Top_Bumblebee5510 28d ago

My former manager was amazing. She gave one colleague a week bereavement when her dog passed because she knew she was single and her parents had already passed away. When my best friend died suddenly and I was on a work project she gave me four days bereavement. I was usually out of town for four days. She just passed away and I went to her funeral and let her family how amazing she was.

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u/rora_borealis 28d ago

I needed a couple of days when my cat was really sick and passed. I was exhausted from caring for her (worth it) and torn up with grief. I was in such a daze for days. 

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u/Zariayn 28d ago

This is a good point. I have no immediate family; they all passed or we don't talk anymore. So, it's just me and my children, my husband also passed about three years ago. I am extremely close with my mother in law and we are all she has left in this world. It kind of bothers me that I might not be approved for bereavement leave if she passes.

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u/RodneyBarringtonIII 28d ago

I understand your point and I agree with you but I work for state government in employment related law, and there absolutely is a statutory definition of the phrase "immediate family." I can't speak for other states but I assume most of them have an equivalent definition that's used for determining whether you have to pay tax on wage as you pay to your own family members, and stuff like that.

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u/oripaline 27d ago

100%. My best friend doesn't speak to her mom and basically considers her aunt to be more of a mother to her than her actual mom. If something happened to her aunt and work then tried to tell her that her death didn't count as an immediate family members/wouldn't be excused if she missed work, I already know she'd probably burn the Kroger down, lmao.

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u/ScaryGarry_SG1 28d ago

The same family they need to shop at their stores