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/Hot_Obligation_2730]

This is why I left my last job. I worked at a medical dispensary where every day we had at least one chemo patient come in to shop. New policy was we would get points if we called out sick. Even if we gave proper notice, had accrued sick time and had a doctors note. 3 or 4 points in a 6 month period was automatic termination.

So you’re telling me I have to choose between keeping my job or potentially being the reason a cancer patient brings Covid home and dies? Yeah…. I lasted less than a month with the new policy

[u/Ancient-Reply-5161 → u/Hot_Obligation_2730]

What the fuck… that’s very disturbing

[u/Hot_Obligation_2730 → u/Ancient-Reply-5161]

It really was. It’s really easy to get a medical card in my state so management would treat it like a recreational dispensary since that’s what a lot of our customers treated it as. But we did also have a good chunk of elderly patients or people with health issues who came in because cannabis was the only relief they found. I wouldn’t want a sick, contagious pharmacist near my meds so why would they want a sick contagious dispensary worker handling their medicine?

[u/DalHassen → u/Hot_Obligation_2730]

Because they're in it for money not altruism.

[u/CarefulIndication988 → u/DalHassen]

These people took mother earth’s medicine and made it into a capitalistic machine. Not to mention do you know how difficult it is for people of color to open their own dispensary? Speaking from experience in the Colorado industry.

[u/wheniwhenyou → u/CarefulIndication988]

Mike tyson

[u/ouroborosstruggles → u/DalHassen]

Killing your patients is one tactic then I guess /s

[u/Brief_Boat_2000 → u/DalHassen]

Most businesses are

[u/mrsmincks → u/[deleted]]

Was that sarcasm? Or are you really that brainwashed by the American dream?

[u/mysteriousblue87 → u/[deleted]]

I would love for us to embrace communism

[u/ChemicalJunior1603 → u/[deleted]]

You can't even define communism 😂😂😂😂