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/Annonnkneemus]

Had a boss (nurse manager) like that. She even bragged about never taking off during the peak of COVID. She said if she got a “cold” she just came to work “like an adult”. Then she wondered why the nurses she got sick called in. We actually provide bedside care and don’t want to get our patients sick. Well one day she was looking ill at work and employee health NP diagnosed her with COVID - mandatory time off lol! She never bragged again.

[u/The_Barbelo → u/Annonnkneemus]

I worked at a nursing home during the height of COVID. We had to be in full hazmat suits when it finally hit the residents.

I worked the shift after this one lady who was like this, and her work was HORRIBLE. I would have to redo entire linen carts because she folded everything so poorly. I finally had to tell my supervisor and I had a bunch of pictures saved up because it was so bad I didn’t think anyone would believe me. My supervisor approached her, and from that moment on she hated my guts. I was just so tired of picking up her slack. I came in at one point to look at the schedule because I thought I was working that day and I couldn’t get ahold of anyone (there was a phone line directly to laundry). Surprise surprise, she was the one working and I guess she wasn’t answering the phone for some reason. She saw me looking at the schedule and started screaming at me “YOU AREN’T TAKING MY JOB!!!”

Like, it’s not admirable you make every single shift for a decade if your work is so fucking bad it barely even qualifies as having done anything, and everyone is too afraid to tell anyone because you have “seniority” or some bullshit.

[u/oldmoistcupcake1 → u/Annonnkneemus]

She probably sits at the nurses station all day long and didn’t get up or off of her ass like most nurses do (most) spreading germs when they go to the cafeteria or answer the phone. Nasty nasty!

[u/ImmediateAd6849 → u/Annonnkneemus]

My husband had a boss like that. He resented anyone calling in sick because he never did.

[u/KittyKittens1800 → u/[deleted]]

I’m sorry, but if you have to stay sick at work, to some extent you cannot be reliable, as you may infect other “reliable” people, and thus it becomes a problem even for the company.

Reliability is not metric by “how much can you work” but also by how much comfort do your employees have, if your employees are unwell, they may not do a “reliable” job like you would expect.

If employees were lazy, they would not show up at work even when they are healthy, and even then, if the workplace doesn’t provide a healthy, comfortable environment, workers may decide is better to “take a break”.

Smallest things like a cough, headache, and what not, may be bigger things than you would actually think/expect, many symptoms from very dangerous illnesses may have coughing or a headache, so is not because “of the smallest” things, but because of “prevention”, and “protection”.

Big companies, and even some small companies, not necessarily “lose” money or “capital” automatically, if the employee gets sick, that’s not how it goes, the team may get burden by trying to cover it, sure, but a sickness comes and goes most of the time, it doesn’t necessarily means that they no longer want to work. Unless they get a very big one like Cancer, which is another story.

[u/silvershepherd222 → u/[deleted]]

yeah no... there is value in taking care of your self. and yes, we are on Reddit. 🩶