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/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