i've learned that they don't promote those who work the hardest, they promote those whom they like and who kiss the most ass.. and usually those least qualified for the job
i've learned you are just a number to kroger and a theif and they will never backyou up over a customer and they don't treat every employee the same, rules only apply to certain people. i've been around a very long time, never call in, never scam the company, don't run to the bathroom, don't steal time, don't smoke, don't text, carry cell, or ipod. i consider myself the model employee and i know they want me out because i'm high wage and get time an half on Sunday. i could write a book, and it would end something along these lines, my loyality is over, i'm cashing in all 15,000 shares and investing elsewhere!
The handi-cap motorized carts are not designed for peopel that are wider ( by a mile) than the carts and weighs about the same amount as a side of beef.
I know that the words of Paul Glen and the Kroger negotiating team means **** over the last few contracts that they promise one thing and deliver there own spin on what they want to do. Several contracts ago they agreed and have it in the contract to stop hiring market managers in excess and off the street. They still have as they had let one meat MR get away with it for a while. She ( Sherrie Crowder) would hire her old friends that she knew from Albertsons. Paul Glen assured the committee that it would not happen and we have it in contract language but , on his watch in HR, it continued. Also a little over three years ado He stated to the committee that the Cutting tool was not a standard but only a suggested guideline for those in the market to use as a tool only. He told the committee that People would not be written up or disciplined for it as long as they made some effort to try to use it. There are people being written up and threatened with their jobs if they do not do it right and have the mandatory 3 cuts done per day. Company policy not states that it has to be done 3 times and on each schedule they are to mark who is responsible for each cut every day along with defined times that each cut should be done by. This is still subject to contract negotiations as long as it is still applied as a company standard.
So what I have learned is that even if you get language in a contract , then Houston HR department will let all violations go as long as it is to their best interests.
Anonymous wrote:I learned that favoritism and seniority mean more than skill and hard work.
favoritism is rampant, what you must also remember is that those in charge will hire/support/promote those similar to themselves...who are also not qualified, skilled, intelligent, competent (these are words that do not describe very many leaders in this company) it's kind of a snow ball effect.
I've learned that I've been doing it wrong the last 25 years. Instead of learning the business, I should have married a store managers daughter and sucked some serious a$$ rather than telling the truth. I learned in todays Kroger I should be wearing a skirt. I learned I should always check the box on career opportunitues as a minority if I want at least an interview. I learned never to trust a store manager. I learned it means nothing knowing this business - I should have kissed some ass these past years.
i've learned you are just a number to kroger and a theif and they will never backyou up over a customer and they don't treat every employee the same, rules only apply to certain people. i've been around a very long time, never call in, never scam the company, don't run to the bathroom, don't steal time, don't smoke, don't text, carry cell, or ipod. i consider myself the model employee and i know they want me out because i'm high wage and get time an half on Sunday. i could write a book, and it would end something along these lines, my loyality is over, i'm cashing in all 15,000 shares and investing elsewhere!
you are the type of employee I look up to cause if your getting time and a half on Sunday your what we call the OLD folks (respectably of couse) tell you what you write the book and ill read it.
