Not good, understaffed. Those that are here are always called in, but never allowed to go full time. Pressures to get a workload done with a skeleton crew effects management down to clerks. Hours are given based on the ideal, ultimate worker, not the average joe getting paid minimum wage. Those that are good workers, are expected to do more and more, and criticized if they ever take an easy day to recover.
Not good, understaffed. Those that are here are always called in, but never allowed to go full time. Pressures to get a workload done with a skeleton crew effects management down to clerks. Hours are given based on the ideal, ultimate worker, not the average joe getting paid minimum wage. Those that are good workers, are expected to do more and more, and criticized if they ever take an easy day to recover.
well said. At our store, there's a lot of blame going on. X didn't do this so I had to. Y needs to pick it up. Employees aren't a team anymore, it's all about pushing the blame off onto others.
WELCOME TO AMERICA. This is the mess BIG BIZ and Big GOV has made.
at my store it's only been ****ty (well REALLY ****ty) for a little while. Suddenly hours disappeared and there wasn't any help. **** doesn't get done, nobody seems to care. "customer first" my ass.
Not good, understaffed. Those that are here are always called in, but never allowed to go full time. Pressures to get a workload done with a skeleton crew effects management down to clerks. Hours are given based on the ideal, ultimate worker, not the average joe getting paid minimum wage. Those that are good workers, are expected to do more and more, and criticized if they ever take an easy day to recover.
well said. At our store, there's a lot of blame going on. X didn't do this so I had to. Y needs to pick it up. Employees aren't a team anymore, it's all about pushing the blame off onto others.
I'm tired and done with being a team player. It used to be that I didn't mind lending a hand to help someone else out at my store, but now screw 'em. Nobody ever does the same for me and I only end up more and more behind. People get pissy with me because of that attitude, but I just reply back, "yeah? When's the last time you repaid the favor?" and when they can't answer - and they can't because they haven't - I just say, "thought so". I'm TIRED of being taken advantage of just because I'm viewed as the "nice guy". I'm DONE being the nice guy. Very few people care in my store and me being one of them was adding a ton of extra stress and aggravation because I kept trying to make EVERYONE happy, including management, while being paid the same (or less!) than those that are known to only give 25% or 50% and so are never asked to do more because it's known it won't get done.
Morale positively sucks at my store and management/corporate doesn't care, so let the store look like a dump. People are tired of being overworked with less than a skeleton crew. It's always "why didn't you get more done?" and never "good job". Employees bite one another's heads off right in front of customers - who cares; nobody does. I don't, but it's gotten bad enough where the frustration and aggravation has spilled out from the backroom and upstairs areas to the sales floor and because Kroger just doesn't care one iota about us, the morale and overall attitude of the employees, both away from customers and right in front of customers, is only going to worsen.
Our district manager, Ken Young, said our store is the worst one he's seen in the entire district and he can't believe how some people got their jobs as department heads or leads. We must be doing something right though because we're one of the top stores in sales.
Our district manager, Ken Young, said our store is the worst one he's seen in the entire district and he can't believe how some people got their jobs as department heads or leads. We must be doing something right though because we're one of the top stores in sales.
I suspect a good portion of the people that work in your store feel the same way about your district manager.
I like shopping for groceries other places than Kroger. It is SO depressing going in there now. Like a ghost town. Sad.
We have a manager that routinely tells us that we should only do our grocery shopping at Kroger. He likes to tell us that it's Kroger that is making it possible for us to buy groceries and that we should be putting money back into the company rather than giving it to competitors. He says that Kroger's competitors want to take our jobs away, so we shouldn't support them.
My response? What I'd like to tell him is as soon as Kroger starts paying a living wage, I'll be shopping where I can get the lowest prices and the best deals - and that ain't Kroger! My paycheck already doesn't go nearly far enough and I'm going to willingly spend more money just to further enrich this cheap, greedy and dishonest company? That makes a ton sense - in the world of Kroger management!
