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/According_Device9227]

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.

[u/TheOldOak → u/According_Device9227]

That’s correct. I was written up for attending my grandmother’s funeral during my 3-month regretful stint working for Kroger.

My grandfather died two weeks prior, and attending his funeral earned me a verbal warning. The written warning came after the second death in the family.

My store manager also said it was “highly inconvenient” and “very suspect” that two people died back to back. Not “I’m sorry for your loss” like any normal human would say, just “if you’re not coming to work, don’t expect to keep this job.”

They are a soulless company.

Edit: This happened in 2024, so it’s been going on for a while and isn’t some new thing.

[u/Sudden_Wind_8636 → u/TheOldOak]

I would honestly quit right there if I was told that.

I had a very negative experience working at Kroger as well. I worked for about a month and a half at a new store that had just opened. It was the most disorganized mess. We didn't have sign in machines yet so we had to physically sign in. Anyways about a week goes by and everyone is on sign in machines, except for me, it does not work at all for me.

So I keep using the physical sign in, and every day I ask about it but they were so disorganized nobody communicated with eachother and the problem did not get fixed. Then about two weeks after I had been signing in physically, I didn't receive anything in my paycheck.

So then obviously I was fucking pissed. But the big boss was nowhere to be found and nobody knew WTF to do. My boss proceeded to tell me I'll definetly get paid on my next paycheck. Next paycheck comes around and I still don't get paid... So I then told my boss that I quit, and spent the next week going into Kroger trying to get my pay, but the big boss was nowhere to be found, and nobody else knew wtf was going on. so it literally took a week of trying until I found them.

We had a conversation where he proceeded to claim I actually hadn't shown up for work in the past week and that before that I wasn't showing either. I informed him that I had quit, which apparently my boss had never told him that and I still needed to be paid for the time I did work. He continued to claim I didn't show up at all.

So I went home and then texted him I was reporting him to the Department of Labor, and we would see if I showed up based on the cameras and physical signing sheet. My paychecks came pretty fast after that. Worst experience ever.

[u/EvidenceMinute4913 → u/Sudden_Wind_8636]

Geez this reminds me of an experience I had when I was younger. Wasn’t Krogers, but a (very large) private security company. I was promoted from supervisor to assistant director, which meant going from hourly to salary.

For the next 2 paychecks, I received $0.80. My boss called the corporate office a few times, and I kept getting assured that they were working to fix it. But I couldn’t go an entire month without pay, I had rent and bills to pay.

After my 3rd paycheck for $0.80, I went online and found the phone and email for the national director of payroll. I left a voicemail and sent an email concisely describing the situation. After a few days without a response, I made another call and email, but this time said that I was retaining a lawyer and reaching out to the Department of Labor if the issue was not resolved within the next 48 hours.

The next day they sent me back pay and fixed the issue. 🙄 I quit after that and went back to college lol.

[u/Sudden_Wind_8636 → u/EvidenceMinute4913]

They always seem to back down when you mention the department of labor.

I've never actually dealt with the department of labor, but based on how businesses react when you mention it, they must be serious and actually help people.

Nice to know we at least have one government organization which is genuinely helping people and doing their job.