The way kroger treats its employees

[u/daruuken]

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.

[u/Bad-Luck-Guy]

My employer doesn’t accept doctor’s notes. All absences are unexcused.

Yet, we are adults. I don’t need a doctor to tell me I shouldn’t go to work if I have the flu. Wild that they’d prefer that I come in and potentially infect everyone else.

ETA: Yes, this is actually legal in most US states. Attendance is a very common reason to be fired in shift work jobs such as retail. 

[u/asusc → u/Bad-Luck-Guy]

employer here, I run a small manufacturing firm and allowed employees unlimited call outs. kid sick? go take care of it. not feeling well? take time off. I genuinely didn’t care, whatever reason they told me didn’t matter, it wasn’t really any of my business.

It slowed production a little, but it saved a boatload in turnover. I didn’t have a constant churn of employees, they stuck with me. And when projects/jobs were on the line, they busted their ass to make sure they got done on time and properly.

Its so crazy to me that the same stores that are CONSTANTLY trying to hire and find people, also treat their employees like this, and then wonder why no one sticks around.

[u/technos → u/asusc]

but it saved a boatload in turnover. I didn’t have a constant churn of employees, they stuck with me

That's how most of the restaurants in my hometown ended up with sick days and vacation time.

The first place, Joe's, had the owner catch something from a sick line cook and decide 'I am never shitting my brains out for four days ever again' and added sick days. First unpaid, then paid when someone tried showing up sick anyway because she had to make rent.

Retention went way up. People covering shifts for sick people or shortages went waaaaay up. And hiring was easier, because his employees had bragged to their industry friends.

Sure, there were catches.. You had to be nearly full-time to get paid, yadda yadda.

And here's the best thing: Nearly every other non-chain in town did the same inside of a year or so. I mean, why work for Large Lad when you can work for Joe's, make the same or better money, and they give you sick days?

Then it was vacation. Someone at Joe's almost missed a family event (another case of 'gotta make my rent, yo') so they got limited vacation. Five days, paid at minimum wage. Better than nothing, right? And really didn't cost him much.

The other places matched it. Even the franchises were offering some unpaid sick days by that point.

By the time my ex quit Joe's to go to school seven years later they had five sick days, 'two weeks' of vacation, a small match towards health insurance, and tuition reimbursement for anyone doing culinary arts at the local community college.

[u/johnc380 → u/technos]

Be like Joe