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The management at store 638 in Jefferson Georgia is a joke. All they do is walk around like they are busy when the breaks get behind for the front end employees. I have seen an employee come in at 9 am and when it was 4 PM she still had not received her break. The excuse of well we are behind in our breaks is a joke. Tamara one of the front end supervisors all she does is walk around if not she is sitting on her butt not doing anything.  I am sick and tired of being treated like crapmaking minimum wage and the managers making I know atleast $20 an hour and they do nothing. breaks should never get behind the managers should get on a register and help. The only time they do anything is when someone important is visiting.



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Welcome to Kroger, where managers are *******s and hard work isn't recognized.



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The management at store 638 in Jefferson Georgia is a joke. All they do is walk around like they are busy when the breaks get behind for the front end employees. I have seen an employee come in at 9 am and when it was 4 PM she still had not received her break. The excuse of well we are behind in our breaks is a joke. Tamara one of the front end supervisors all she does is walk around if not she is sitting on her butt not doing anything.  I am sick and tired of being treated like crapmaking minimum wage and the managers making I know atleast $20 an hour and they do nothing. breaks should never get behind the managers should get on a register and help. The only time they do anything is when someone important is visiting.


 Yep I know what your talking about woke at the same store 638 sucks and Tamara never does anything and when you aren't busy she gets onto you for not doing anything she needs take her own advice and actually work



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Welcome to Kroger, where managers are *******s and hard work isn't recognized.


 

I always feel like I'm one of the few people who likes their managers. I have yet to have a bad one, and I've been between a couple different departments now, currently in Front End as a Cashier. My managers actually do everything they should, including jumping into a register and taking orders, even going so far as to jump in a register for 10-15 mins while you go on break.

Sure, occasionally a break will get pushed back if things get super busy, but they always get us out within 30 mins of our scheduled break/lunch. I just never seem to have all these issues a lot of people complain about.



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Anonymous wrote:

Welcome to Kroger, where managers are *******s and hard work isn't recognized.


 

I always feel like I'm one of the few people who likes their managers. I have yet to have a bad one, and I've been between a couple different departments now, currently in Front End as a Cashier. My managers actually do everything they should, including jumping into a register and taking orders, even going so far as to jump in a register for 10-15 mins while you go on break.

Sure, occasionally a break will get pushed back if things get super busy, but they always get us out within 30 mins of our scheduled break/lunch. I just never seem to have all these issues a lot of people complain about.


 Then you are lucky, because typically everyone store management and beyond are so demanding and always complaining about things wrong with the workplace, regardless of what you do. They don't do anything to help resolve the issues, they just sit back and demand us without getting off their lazy butts and acting like true leaders. Sounds like your store managers are better leaders than any others that I know.



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My managers cool too. She's not afraid to get down and dirty. She'll do lot duty, clean messes, bag, and generly do whatever else is necessary to keep the ball rolling.

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My managers cool too. She's not afraid to get down and dirty. She'll do lot duty, clean messes, bag, and generly do whatever else is necessary to keep the ball rolling.


 

None of which she is supposed to do but it depends on the contract. Local 1996 doesn't allow this as it's a way to cut jobs.



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So you who says your managers are always getting on the register you seriously must not work at store 638 because they do not get on a register. If you do work at that store you are a liar and should really just the hell up. Nova the new store manager yes he is a hard worker but the rest of them DJ, Tamara, Linda (upp front supervisor who does nothing), and Robert who knows what he does.  Those 4 do nothing but complain about how there are dips which maybe there wouldn't be dips if they did more than stare at the lines getting behind. Store 638 which I have seen get 2 hours behind in breaks for the cashiers more then once a week. Please if anyone from the union reads this come and visit our store and make these managers work instead of stand there.



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mega-kitteh wrote:

My managers cool too. She's not afraid to get down and dirty. She'll do lot duty, clean messes, bag, and generly do whatever else is necessary to keep the ball rolling.


 

None of which she is supposed to do but it depends on the contract. Local 1996 doesn't allow this as it's a way to cut jobs.


 I think what some people refer to as managers is not what others refer to as managers.  Where I work, your immediate supervisor is called (insert department name here) manager or head.  They may be called, "managers" but they're not considered store mangement.   These people are union employees and can do any union job.  The custom service manager is not part of the management team.   Assistant store managers oversee several departments.  These people are salaried employees and cannot do union jobs.  Above the assistant store managers is the store manager.



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So you who says your managers are always getting on the register you seriously must not work at store 638 because they do not get on a register. If you do work at that store you are a liar and should really just the hell up. Nova the new store manager yes he is a hard worker but the rest of them DJ, Tamara, Linda (upp front supervisor who does nothing), and Robert who knows what he does.  Those 4 do nothing but complain about how there are dips which maybe there wouldn't be dips if they did more than stare at the lines getting behind. Store 638 which I have seen get 2 hours behind in breaks for the cashiers more then once a week. Please if anyone from the union reads this come and visit our store and make these managers work instead of stand there.


 

Nope, not Store 638. I'm just talking in general because I see a lot of similar complaints on these forums about terrible front-end management and store supervisors, and mine just never seem to be anything like that. If you're having issues, start escalating up the ladder in terms of who you complain to. Go to your main manager for front-end, and if he does nothing, go to your store director, and if that person does nothing, go to your union rep and also try to get a hold of the higher ups/Corporate (the ones who everyone gets worked up over when they hear about "being walked"). There are solutions to the issues that you describe, and someone will care when they're the ones whom things come back to.

So if you guy high enough up, and someone's bottom line is being threatened, things will change. As they say, "**** rolls down hill". So once you get the ball rolling, everyone below the person who started it is going to hear about it and start getting in line. Not that long ago, our 3rd got demoted to a simple Cashier. I still like him, but his numbers weren't where people wanted, so they dropped him. And that guy was a step below Assistant Manager. So corporate isn't afraid to kick people in the ass if it means getting things done.

Beyond that, if lines are backing up (I assume you guys do 1+1 in your lines), call a PIC/Manager directly and ask them to pull someone. Bonus points if you ask them in front of customers. They don't want to look bad, so they'll likely do it, even if they're annoyed about it. Customers don't like waiting, and so if lines are backing up and your PICs aren't doing anything to help, put them on the spot in front of customers. Page overhead if you need to, don't wait for a PIC to do it. I've had to do that a few times, especially during closing hours. A PIC is supposed to watch the front-end, but sometimes you have to take things into your own hands and make the call yourself.



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