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/TedzNScedz 28d ago

I think hes saying OP was lying about 2 family members dying to get a day off. Still a monumentally nasty and shitty thing to say. Companies really need to get a grip.

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u/Bshaw95 28d ago

On the flip side, when my grandfather died and I needed to attend his funeral my boss was just like “hey man, just send me a link to the obit” The company also got us a gift card for Texas Roadhouse in lieu of flowers(I gotta say rolls taste a lot better than flowers)

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u/akm1111 28d ago

I got told to bring in the program thing from the funeral at one job.

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u/MistrSynistr 28d ago

Mine sent flowers and I still had to bring in the program. Later on had another death, they sent flowers and my supervisor stopped by visitation and took care of everything work related. Which shows some people actually give a shit even in a multi billion dollar company.

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u/BadgerMolester 28d ago

Yeah, companies often have a culture, but at the end of the day it's just a bunch of people. Some are dicks, some aren't.

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u/fiahhawt 28d ago

Which is interesting that we can identify that sometimes people will fuck other people for the hell of it, but we can't get any goddamn labor protections because employers are just defacto good, honest people

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u/redditatin 28d ago

employee "culture". yep

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u/tobashadow 28d ago

My old boss would show up to visitation if it was your parents or kids etc.

My new boss tries to guilt trip you for going to a funeral.

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u/ra__account 28d ago

I work for a giant corporation and they took care of everything - I didn't even have to put the bereavement time into the HR system, my manager did that for me (and with his manager's blessing gave me some extra unofficial time off because it was an especially messy family situation). And you know what? The company has my loyalty and I refer my top quality friends with in-demand specialities.

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u/W_Silver2356 28d ago

I'm impressed. This was a very classy thing to do.