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Let me first say I have been working at kroger for 2.5 years and I Am planning on putting some time in through college untill I find a better job.
Im not going to tell you where I work or even my name for some reason this ends up back to me. Never know what can happen.
My job Description there would be a cashier.

Anyways lets get started shall we?

My first situation of many at my Store would be my floor supervisor. She is a very nice person but does not know her job at all. She tends to wonder around talking to customers, Spending her time in customer service and not showing customers which lane to choose. She spends alot of time wondering the store looking at nasty manager discount items and talking to old friends catching up on years they have missed together. The other day cooperate came in and she was just talking away in customer service. What a waste of money, time and even a job that she doesnt deserve. The back up person that they have picked for her when she has a day off or vacation is even worse, she stands out in front of the check lanes with her hands in her pockets looking at everyone, I finally had to ask for someone to open up and for all Uts to come up and bag. Maybe they need to start training these so called supervisors a little better?

Second off would be the meat department at our store.
It is soooooooo disgusting, The meat they have back there smells soooo incredibly bad, When im checking I hate touching the meat people bring up because all of it is dripping with blood, It is all poorly wrapped. When i walk past there to go to break the Department smells like pure Sh**. Its horrible and so are the employees that work in that department. They never do anything around that place and could care less how long meat has been on the shelves. The other nasty thing is the meat they try to sell that has the "MANAGER SPECIAL" on it. So nasty, i cant believe we can even sell some of that stuff.

Third would be the Manager specials.
I dont care if we have these things marked down, im sure they helped get product out of the store but it is extremely nasty when we mark down old rotten fish and meat and people buy it. I wouldnt care about it as much BUT NONE OF THE TAGS SCAN! I hate sitting there typing in long ass numbers with blood dripping out of the package becuase we cannot spend money on good tags or even try to fix the tags to scan! Its a freaking joke and I cannot stand it. Lets scan items faster for elm score but lets throw in tags that will not scan. GG.

Fourth would be the cheap uscan we have and how worthless it is.
I cannot believe some of the shi** they make us do on there. Lets make everyone get certified for uscan, then lets give them hand helds to walk around and make them do everything you can at the podeum on the hand held. NO! Complete crap. On busy days its hard als hell to keep up with people on that stupid hand held that lags to ****, The battery dies like every hour. People tear the thing up and now its a pile of junk that cannot be used. But we cant stand at the podeum. Imagine.

Managers......
Our managers at our store are ok. The head manager never reall talks to the employees. she just tells you what do to, and expects it to be done. The guy manager there is pretty cool, He is about the same as the head. But the other lady manager is a complete idiot. Im sorry she will come up to the front end and start bossing the cashiers on what lanes to go to and what to do. thats not how it works and it is a complete disaster. THat is just some of the stuff she does i dont really feel like telling everyone all of the stories...

Cashiering.
The other day i come into work and i had to read this nice little article about how to ask for our 123 rewards master card. Let me tell you cooperate i dont give two ****s about trying to sell your greaking master card to the customers that have been asked twenty million times if they want to join. The same people get the offer everytime they come in. Imagine how pissed they get. Do you really want to lose customers over your dumb master card? NO. Come on lets put it into the audit and make sure we are selling as many master cards as we possible can. I think not and i absolutly wouldnt make the cashiers do that if i was in charge. You know maybe cooperate should come down and be a cashier in our store for a day and see how it is. I bet you would change some of your complete dumbass rules you have set up you idiots. The kicker is we are always understaffed and we never have enough bagger. So you are always bagging. Not kidding.

 Baggers wearing shorts?
I would say YES! the poor bagger are out there pushing carts in pants in 101 degrees. Screw this i wonder why we go through so many bagger because they cant wear shorts and have to wear a gay orange vest? I would too. I dont see why cashiers cannot wear shorts either? The air is never on in our store and it is always soo hot in there. I dont understand the reason behind wearing pants. As long as we look nice and neat shorts should be able to be worn. Sorry we are not cooperate wearing nice dress pants sitting in a nice air conditioned office. But of course third shift grocery can wear whatever they please. Awesome.

Im done for now. I have alot more but i want to see what you have to think about this.


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I love my mind-numbing job at Kroger! Have been there 5 years now. I work 3 nights a week in the ice cream department from 11 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. I'm my own boss. There is no one to boss me around. On nights when there's no truck I work the backstock, condition the shelves and when I'm finished I go home. I don't take the 30 minute lunch, in fact none of the night crew takes a lunch, this way we all get to shave 30 minutes off our shift without penalty.

The only drawback to my job is having to unload the pallets in the freezer at subzero temperature. Then you get to the floor and you have to rip off your coat because you're burning up.

You couldn't pay me to work the dayshift where you have to put up with irate customers and paranoid 'managers'. Kroger really doesn't have any trained managers only glorified stock people that started their Kroger careers right out of high school. They have no idea of how to manage anything, especially not personnel.

So, my message to all the complainants is to get an education so that you can get a job in the 'coporate' [note correct spelling] world and complain about all the college educated bosses. Been there, done that for 40 years.

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Im a bagger and i just ****ing hate people. Almost every customer that comes to my store is a total ass ****er.

One thing i love is bagging huge orders all in paper. That is the greatest.

Another thing i love is when people come through with a kid sitting in the seat in the cart and a kid sitting in the cart and expect you to be able to fit all of there **** around the kid. **** that i just leave the **** up on the belt.

Next would be the ****ing carts. I can understand old people not bringing there carts back to where they are allocated to be but when some ****ing 30 year old piece of **** hick **** cant put hers back that pisses the **** out of me. Dumb hick ****s.

Then you have the ****ing food stamp bunch. They ****ing eat 10x better than i do, buying up all the ****ing good brands while im stuck at home eating ****ing ramen and walmart food. **** THAT get a real ****ing job, but they cant because most of them are stupid inbred hicks.

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the ghetto kroger linwood square indianapolis 95 percent food stamps. people starving, 1-7 of month is hell week. we lost 150,000 bucks in 3 months due shoplifting. lazy workers also from ghetto employee theft. 50 carts of gobacks during food stamp week. workers try to get each other fired daily. we now have a cop 24/7 in the store. crazy ghetto lifestyle

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-- Edited by oldtoys1961 on Wednesday 8th of July 2009 01:50:10 PM

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Our store problem is mostly aging 30-40 year employees suckling on the "teet" of Kroger till retirement comes around, but still their hours are applied to the budget. Some are under this old contract they say and get 48hrs aweek.Thats got to be $600 weekly for working only half the time when there and 6 weeks of that is vacation not counting PH's. They are NOT expected to be productive as the newer hires within 10 years of now. If the old timer goes on vacation which is 6 weeks a year. They use a new hire to fill in and give him 1/2 the amount of time to do the old timers job.

If your a new hire, your expected to work like a small Chinese child in a Niki shoe factory.

Our store likes to also turn a blind eye to the obesity fat cashier that sits and watches over the UScan. He sits on his ass all night, eats, leans on the podium so much he's wore the elbows out of his sleeves. Throws re-shops on the end of the isles because he's too fat and lazy to simply put them back where they go. I've actually seen 65yo ladies do more work than this slob. He stinks. And actually folds down the heels of his shoes, wearing them like flip-flops because he can't physically even bend over and tie his shoes. Then has the audacity of saying "I doze my fair share" Fair share of what? Shoveling Ice Cream into his mouth like a backhoe and using the lid? The man can't even bend over. Even the slowest stocker has him beat. Because this "Fat Ba$tard" is drawing about $14-$15 and hour. How many good working men could we get for that cost that actually work?

I lost what little insurance I had due to 18 hour weeks when they started cutting hours back in Dec.2008. Didn't know I had to have a minimum of 22.5 after a certain hire date 01/05 I beleive. Before that you can get cut to 18 and still have insurance. Looks like my loss to over paid and under worked and fata$$'s gain. When this economy rights itself, I'm going to take my experience and training and everything I learned from Kroger over the the otherside,anywhere.

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Today i experienced a all new low to these absolutly heartless ****ers at krogers. Im sorry but i almost walked out today.

I was working fuel center and this very old lady comes up and asks if there is anyone around to help change a flat tire. I said sure let me talk to my manager and we will get you taken care of. I go inside and talk to my manager and she tell me these exact words..

" We are not responsible for these kinds of problems, we can call someone for her and thats it" I gave her a glar in amazment, turned and walked away from her without a word.

I cannot believe you would actually let this lady be stranded in your parking lot.

I ask if she had anyone to contact for help, she replied I have no one around here.
So i punched out and went outside to change her tired.
Unbelievable kroger.

You have reached a new low, and I hope you enjoy these new lows you are still reaching You Indy Pri.cks.



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which kroger i hate them all you wonder why you have employee theft

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my new head manger hates fast/good cashiers,  fast cashiers were promoted, but not anymore lazy pricks with nasty tattoos and huge lip piercings are new supers. in fact i got written up for my never slow down attitude, i still talked to the customers and i rocked some really high score and i got written up for it this is bull****

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i am glad I found this webpage.  I work at the Kroger in Indianapolis on west 38th street.  We also have a police officer in our store several days a week.  We also have undercover officers who catch shoplifters.  We also experience the first of the month maddness with the foodstamps and WIC. We keep hearing the rumor that we need to do well or they are going to close our store. I guess the Speedway store is being rebuilt and it will be way bigger.

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I have you all beat....

I used to work for Kroger at a store in Texas.....I left a couple of months ago to do something else that gave me more and that was something I wanted to do for a change, and because I had enough of it all and was burned out.

I still walk into my old store every couple of days.....and the conditions never change.  I ask why they never change.....ELMS.  A pure joke.  Computer says you don't need the checkers....the long lines and only two checkstands open say that they do.

Customers are allowed to walk over employees......you can't even enforce store policies since Customer's interpretations overrule yours regardless.  And if you try to enforce the rules, the customer just cries and wins.  That's a load of s--t.

My fiancee still works there, and I have to hear her every day complain about the working conditions.  She has been dealing with an injured shoulder for the last two months and is a bagger.  She complains constantly and nobody listens.

I left to get a better life for myself.....Kroger can't expect everyone to have a good life on the peanuts they offer.  Would I go back....despite the assurances from management that I still had a job should the need arise.....probably not.  It's not worth it....I'll go to the competition, be paid more, and enjoy better.  But I like where I'm at.....it's better than the hell I went through.


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I disagree the inner city Kroger stores in Indianapolis are not very nice and safe to work or shop.

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I work in the Deli so I do not see and hear as much as the reast of you, man I'm greatfull for that. But, I have issues with the inner workings as well.  I work with a co-employee of mine that insist she gets certain days of every week witch leaves me closing the Deli by myself bc other people needs the day off too. Added to the fact I also fill in for the people who take vacation. Again closing by myself, that is really the only time i get my fourty sometimes plus. while those who have there demands are not productive even in the very least get fourty hrs. yes, we are expected to do the work of two in the same amount of time. Hey, just as well bend of and grab your ankles, by the way dont expect vassaline, that would be too nice.

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Note the REAL correct spelling of the word... corporate you left out the first R>>>>>> LMAO!!!!

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My sister... has worked for kroger for 36 years...Backdoor receiver
She was suspended pending for asking for a donation for her church... it was outdating in a day... the vendor had written purmission by the company to donate... sis had letters from church etc. Vendor owns the route anyway...
Vendor has donated and droppped off directly to church. On the day of the donation, vendor brought the product, pulled from another chainstore (Never a Kroger product), into the store, not knowing it's no longer aloud as of this year!  Sis told vendor she could take stuff out of store... sooo she took it to sis's car and placed in the back seats. The security guard that spends all his time trying to get employees fired!!!! instead of watching the front where liquor is stolen, by hundreds daily!

The suspended pending her 6 weeks ago.... no pay... NO unemployment!!!! They say it is her fault, she acted with misconduct! The vendor went in to the store after vendor heard about the suspention.... The manager just started screaming IN the front of the store.... not even listening. She gave the manager the letter from the product company...manager made vendor leave.

The vendor is banned from the store! Vendors spouse has to take the product into that store!!!!!

The day this happened.. my sister was asked into the office..questioned regarding the 3 cases. Sis had only asked for one of the product not cases. They had taken pics of product in her car, then followed her out and removed the product! The church didn't even get the donation! They said if vendors are doing favors...whos to say she isn't letting stuff slide! In Indiana... the security cams are always on!
They said it makes them question her integrity!! REALLY!!! 36 years o your stupid crap and you question!
Manager NEVER even wrote her up officially, just jotted down on paper and told her she would be told in two weeks after their corporate meeting! The amanger went on vacation and now 6 weeks later... still waiting.
I NO LONGER Shop at kroger! Prices are higher even with the stupid scan card! Only reason they have the card.. is to keep track of where people shop from, etc!

Kroger management breeds contempt because of waht they allow the managers to have say over!

I plab to contact Kroger and tell them WAHY I will no longer shop there, and mail my scan cards back in peices!

Most corporate companies try to make things work well between management and emplyees.. but not at kroger!

I feel kroger compared to Wal-mart! will be the next to go under due to this kind of behavior!

I will NOT shop Kroger.. to those of you that NEED to work there..sorry...hope you are schooling to get a better one! Senority means nothing! and when they can cut people before retirement they will do all they can!
Most of the people I know that have been there for years...are the hardest workers!

So long Kroger... been over 10 years since I have been grocery shopping in one!



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okay so i'm not saying that kroger is the best job in the world but most of you that posted on this site say YOUR STILL WORKING there.  its obviously not THAT bad. so i think you all need to stop the whining and just be happy that you HAVE a job at a time like this...because a lot of people don't.

get over yourselves people.

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FYI, your sister also offered sexual services to all the baggers (including the special needs employee's), drink milwaukee's best light on her breaks, and pooped on the empty grocery trailers on a regular basis.  I'm suprised she got away with it this long.

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I know exactly what you mean. Those markdowns never scan from any department, the iPads are a joke and ours have to be replaced every 6 months, "inviting" people to UScan just pisses customers off, ELMS say we have enough cashiers yet our lines are always long, and I refuse to offer the 123 master card (people are in enough debt for crying out loud).

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to the person who comes in here and says
blah blah blah, you are still working there so it must not be that bad!

well F.ag boy. I have been looking for a new job, If you maybe get out of your cave and see how the economy is you wouldnt be posting that fu.cking retarted comment. On top of that I am still in college, kind of hard to find a better job other then retail that will suck just as bad.

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i'm with you!!!

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Plain and simple Kroger sucks just like many jobs out there like it, what else can you expect for low paying, minimum wage jobs.

The thing that pisses me off though is that they treat it like it is some kind of high paying job, treating the employees like crap and constantly threatening to fire them or whatever.  "Oh no!  Not many jobs are willing to pay as much as minimum wage please don't fire me!"

They do a lot of stupid things...a lot...lot...lot.  Let's face it, Kroger is just ran by a bunch of old, fat, corrupted bastards.  Managers are complete hypocrites that do nothing at all, well most of them anyways I know some of them are actually pretty cool.  Employees and managers are always trying to **** each other in order to save themselves...I've been threatened to be fired like three times for things that were not my fault or beyond my control.

I am only 18 and I can say without a doubt...I could run a Kroger better than most of the failures they have working...or at least I would treat the employees with respect just like the customers.

Until Kroger get's better we need a new motto...

Kroger, we treat customers like family...but our employees like ****.

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interesting people on here for sure

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Anonymous wrote:




FYI, your sister also offered sexual services to all the baggers (including the special needs employee's), drink milwaukee's best light on her breaks, and pooped on the empty grocery trailers on a regular basis.  I'm suprised she got away with it this long.





are you serious??????

 



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I have a good one for you all. I work at the Kroger in Indianapolis on 38th Street. We had a customer use the sink for a toilet, not urine either.  Another time someone clogged the toilet with **** it leaked everywhere! The bagger who cleaned it up, put two plastic bags over his shoes to wade through it.

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Please use SPELL CHECK you IDIOT!!!!

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Cashier107 wrote:

my new head manger hates fast/good cashiers,  fast cashiers were promoted, but not anymore lazy pricks with nasty tattoos and huge lip piercings are new supers. in fact i got written up for my never slow down attitude, i still talked to the customers and i rocked some really high score and i got written up for it this is bull****




 i work at one in IL as a bagger for almost a year now and they just recently made us take our piercings out, because for some reason it's ruining our conservative environment that jesus needs in kroger. most of our cashiers go way too damn fast and it's bull**** that they don;t even pay attention to the **** they scan so if you walk inside from carts to an order youll see cookies and bread and all that **** getting smashed, heh overly fast service really works eh? oh and top of that the head manager quitely resembles gollum and she has a dark auora around her like you can feel her coming when she's in the vacinity and she is the evilest bitch you will ever meet so you think you have it bad



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They are IPADS not iPads that is an apple product.

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lol, u guys are sad. All jobs are like this, get used to it its life. Enjoy the fact of even being employed. I've been with a Kroger affiliate as a cashier for the past 5+ years. Just suck  it up guys. You aren't on this planet forever you should use this opportunity to better yourselves. Get an education, certification or have long term goals etc... Turn conflicts you do have at work with employees or customers into lessons to either work through or avoid completely in the future. There IS a REASON why we are all stuck here on this planet together and it's not simply for the company on a bar stool or clubbing on weekends. We above all else need to remember that everyone for the most part is here to learn, grow and make their way in this world no matter how rich or how poorly kept. Some people have a more difficult time than others adjusting to their current position in life and we have to remember not to judge but show understanding even in the face of sarcasm and reticule. If you can do this you have already achieved half your goals in life, congratulations and Peace.

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Yea at my store I told them that I just found out that I was pregnant a couple of months ago and they still want me to push carts, clean bathrooms and do trash. They told me that was part of my job and I can't just do only some of what I am required to do because I am a bagger. They also said that being pregnant wasn't an excuse not to do that type of work.... 

But I swear bagging kills my back now I really want a new job but Idk if anywhere will hire me/



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ghetto store

 



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A whole month to hear back about my drug test for employment, another week trying to get in touch with management for orientation, a couple runaround phone calls trying to reach the contact person. I show up and ask to speak to her in person, she shows up and grills me about whether I really want to work there.   Completely unprofessional. No, I don't. Your coworkers are your first customers, and you should always treat your customers with respect. All of them. Thanks for not wasting my time. Employees have value!  Very unfriendly atmosphere!



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