As you can see by my post count I am a newbie on the boards. Finally decided to get myself an account and associate a name with my posts for however long or short my stay with Kroger ends up being. My writing style may give my posts as anonymous, not that any of the three or so were that significant.
Anyway, I just felt like relaying a small moment in my time at Kroger that I am curious if anyone else has had a similar moment.
One day on break, there was the rare instance of about seven people sitting in the break room. Department heads or backups were most of them. I, a lowly carryout, had an interesting time among them. All of them were discussing how their department had been gradually, or not so gradually, screwed over. I could intelligently chime in with the problems of Que Vision and the concepts of the ELMS. In all, there was laughing and a sort of somber smile of shared problems. If there was a beer in our hands and we were not at Kroger, it could have been a weekend gathering, all thanks to the shared experience of the inane crap Kroger has to offer. Kroger still sucks, of course. It was just an interesting experience at a Kroger.
Has anyone else had a moment like this? Some sort of "Kroger Sucks" moment shared in the backrooms or break rooms?
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we just have a picnic table or use the conference room. I don't think i've had a gathering of employees just talking about how much it sucks but i have spoken to department heads about it. they tend to agree - since team stocking, everything sucks.
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we had a halway, leading to a fire exit, not even a room, untill the fire dept forced management to give us a storage room, as a break room, because you couldn't get out the fire exit.
i worked with some very good people over my many many years with kroger. It was us against 'THA MAN", and we knew it, so we stuck together, enjoyed what monents we could, sometimes outside work.
but management couldn't stand it, and chipped away at our group, untill none were left, and kroger became a lonely place for me
Oh all of my higher ups know somethings screwed up with the system. Ive talked to almost all of them about it. Things are getting harder for us now though with our new store manager. He knows nothing on how to actually run a store and is a complete straight cut corporate suck up. Hes an old school rule follower and is putting the strain on us to follow every little thing to the T.
Oh and on the breakroom note my breakroom is in the back next to the air conditioner so its deafening in there and ironically has no air conditioning. Just the heat from the air conditioner working so hard.
