My story

Date: Jul 16, 2018

RE: My story

Date: Jul 16, 2018

For being a DH, YOU really must not know the ins and outs about how corporations work.

4hourrush · Guru

You can get overtime depending on the store and the conditions so yes i do believe that some night crews could be getting that many hours per week. But i never understand the concept of calling off because "it hurts too much"?? Ok all that means is that your coworkers have to work twice as hard while feeling the same way as you just because you wanted to be a whiny snowflake and not show up to work? That's just crappy.

Date: Jul 16, 2018

Yes, I realize calling out would affect my coworkers. Looking back on it now, I was calling out this much from November to January. I couldn't handle these holiday months because we were a four man crew getting massive sized trucks, and tons of distro. I worked an entire shift in one aisle during December, and I was assigned to two. But, These were the times when my coworkers and I had an understanding with each other about calling out. This was before I transferred. Our DH and lead both moved to different departments, and another life longer on our crew moved to a different department. Since there was four of us, one of kroger's life longers was also helping out in frozen. So, sometimes there was only 3 of us. It's not a matter of feeling sore, but it's a matter of how the **** can you overwork your employees like this? Like, when being hired, you go in there thinking that you'll be getting off at your scheduled time and how your only going to be working 32 hours a week. When I was at this store, we were a team and unloaded parishble trucks together. We only had one power jack to unload them and we had to use hand jacks to pull them to their departments. Taking the meat pallets to the meat department was the worst. This is what left me sore.

When I transferred to a different store, I didn't have to deal with unloading trucks anymore...well ghc I did, but that's easy except for when the warehouse stacked the pallets from heavy to light and then to heavy again causing them to fall. Still easy. The lead would unload parishbles (which he was assigned to) with an electric pallet jack and put them in their departments. I was nowhere near to being sore at this store as I was at the other store. This store was definitely more organized in this sense.

I'm unsatisfied with both stores DIDN'T get us the help that we needed.

The frozen lead at both stores would pull 70hrs for weeks on end. And probably still are. I think they work the hardest out of every department. I'm still stunned by how they can do this.

Date: Jul 16, 2018

You know, now that I think about it. I'm not even sure why our perishable trucks were done as a team. It would've made more sense for one person to do it. It would've gone by faster and wouldn't keep people from stocking.

Date: Jul 16, 2018

Anonymous wrote:
They complained to the dps and leads about having ot and always sent them home for their ot. It was never the low laborers such as myself that would be sent home when ot over exceeded ot. It makes sense since I wasn't making nearly the amount that they were.

You know, after working the amount of hours that I was working, it got tiring.

I've stated my case, and you clearly don't understand what it meant to be in my shoes either.

so much is wrong with your story its hilarious.

There's no way you were making time and a half going over 40 hours a week CONSTANTLY. Corporate would literally get involved if management let that slide.

Calling out numerous times proves you are not responsible or reliable. I wouldn't want you in my department either. You're most likely a teen mom (no offense meant here, most of all my closest girlfriends were teen moms), and thats based off you never mentioning any family in regard to your children.

And this very very obvious point proves you don't have any clue at all what you're talking about. A department head absolutely CAN NOT run more than the department they are the head of. Maybe you are confusing comanagers (upper management in the office) with a department head... comanagers shouldnt be running departments either, only in very extreme circumstances but it can be done; a department head can NOT be a department head of multiple departments. It doesn't work that way, nor will it ever work that way.

Saying you're sending someone to the "front end" because its easier. HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. Pulling trucks is very physically demanding; don't get me wrong. But the front end is mentally, emotionally, physically draining and exhausting. And running it is even worse.

Your problem is you play the victim and refuse to accept responsibility. Until you grow up or learn to do these things, you will not have a good time being employed. Not just with Kroger or at Dillons, but ever.

Date: Jul 17, 2018

Anonymous wrote:
Do you not know how to read? My state has no unions. Kroger stores here DON'T HAVE UNIONS. Look up which states don't have unions and which Kroger's aren't a part of them!!

AND I KNOW THERE'S A BUDGET FOR HOURS, DUMBASS! WE ALWAYS WENT OVER OURS. OR MAYBE WE DIDN'T SINCE WE WERE UNDERSTAFFED.

OUR TRAINING PROGRAM ISN'T FIVE DAYS, ****O. IT'S ONLY ONLY TWO FOR ORIENTATION, THEN THEY GOT TO WORK RIGHT AWAY AFTER THIS.

Like I said in many other post, IT'S NOT THE POLICIES THAT I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH. IT'S HOW MANY HOURS WE HAD TO WORK IN ONE DAY AND IN ONE WEEK BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE THE HELP THAT WE NEEDED. AND NOBODY CARED TO PULL OTHER PEOPLE FROM THEIR DEPARTMENTS OR CALL OTHER STORES FOR HELP SINCE THEY WEREN'T HIRING ANYBODY FOR OUR DEPARTMENT.

OBVIOUSLY YOU DON'T KNOW ****.

I don't know "****" even though I've stated im a department head, and im calling out your lies because most of what you said doesnt make sense. You're a victim type, so I know you probably rage refresh this every chance you get to see the responses and see if anyone is on your side.

The only thing you've been right about this entire thread is that you said you're not a union store, must have missed that part. Still doesn't make much of a difference, Kroger is desperate for help almost always. You have to fight or steal to be fired from Kroger, pretty much, so you're not telling us a lot of the story here. You called out many, many times and managed to get fired because they realized you're just... kind of lazy? And not reliable.

I can promise you most responses here aren't going to be on your side. And pulling from other departments? Didn't you say you work overnight? Where exactly would they pull people from.... and in the daytime, all departments are scheduled very precisely and even one call out will ruin the entire mood/experience of the day.

It shows how selfish you are to request people be pulled from other departments instead of taking care of their own department, not to mention the strict rules of how stockers can't run any other department.

Because GOD FORBID IF MANAGEMENT PULLED SOMEONE FROM YOUR DEPARTMENT, It would be the END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT and you would complain and bitch about that too.

Its strange you're acting like this played out in months, but keep complaining about having to work 14 hours straight on your first day.... something doesn't add up here.