Cut down to 28 Hours

AnonymousCutter · Guru

Cut down to 28 Hours

krogerman77 · Guru

I got 28 hours next week.

AnonymousCutter · Guru

Is your department hours full? If not, I would call seniority on it.

BagBoy · Guru

it happens at this time every year. It has nothing to do with OBAMA or HEALTHCARE.

store815 · Guru

I have bill and if I cannot make 35 hours I need a new job. I am high on the seniority list.

wwefan316 · Member

at least you didnt get 16 hours the past 3 weeks and 22 hours this coming week. Be glad you got the hours.

Date: Jan 5, 2013

I got 40 hours

Date: Jan 5, 2013

I got 28.

Date: Jan 6, 2013

i don't know my hours yet but i just worked a 40 hour week at part time got told last night i wouldn't be needed saturday and saw a for hire sign outside for a groc/clerk which i what i do i do not now what to think.....

nocturnia · Guru

Best thing I can tell peeps re these cut hours: Make yourself so useful and valuable on your job that management wants you around more. Believe it or not, this truly works.

4hourrush · Guru

The lack of hours doesn't have anything to do with Obama, it has to do with the fact that the holidays are over.

There's still people in my department getting 30-35 hours. But I'm at the bottom of the list, at 12.

meatclerk248 · Veteran Member

I got zero I am on vacation next week :)

krogerman77 · Guru

My store has been cutting hours since around Thanksgiving yet still hiring more people. Yet I'm only getting 28 hours this week. Most people under me are only getting mid to low 20's.

CharityDiary · Veteran Member

You're working for the wrong company.

I signed up to work anywhere from 17 to 30 hours a week. You know how many hours a week I work? 45.

OP, you obviously want to work more hours, but they're cutting everyone's hours, likely to keep from having to pay benefits and stuff like that.

As always, Kroger exploits their employees so that they can pay them the minimum amount of money, no matter how it affects the employee.

Date: Jan 7, 2013

Well, I been getting week after week of 40 hrs or maybe 35, and I am called pt, go figure.. This week it's cut some, thankfully, as I only want pt hrs anyways. But that didn't come easy. DAMN! Is the union to blame for it being this way? Some contract thing having to do with 12 weeks in a row at so many hrs then you are ft? Or is it cause I'm new and not in the union yet and can be worked like a dog?

styles · Guru

nah its pretty standard procedure at kroger so you don't become full time..12 weeks at 40 hrs (your local may vary somewhat), and you become automatically placed onto the full-time benefit/pay scale. as far as i know the union can't really do much about this

CharityDiary · Veteran Member

styles wrote:
nah its pretty standard procedure at kroger so you don't become full time..12 weeks at 40 hrs (your local may vary somewhat), and you become automatically placed onto the full-time benefit/pay scale. as far as i know the union can't really do much about this

There should be a "union" or some sort of government organization to keep employers (and unions, really) from taking advantage of their employees like this. I don't care if it's technically within the rules; it's still exploitation.