For about a 30 minute span, we had 6 registers open and only 2 baggers (including me) to bag them. This was during the "evening rush hour" and the acsm never bothered to call the 3 or 4 other baggers that were "working" today up front. 1/2 the time it's the scheduler's fault, but 1/2 the time the baggers try to pre-occupy themselves with something so they don't have to bag. I'll admit, bagging isn't a great job, especially if you aren't paid more than 7.50 (according to my contract). But you still have to help out. On days like this, we often get criticized for not bouncing around between checklanes enough but I think the blame should be put on those that aren't doing their jobs. I try my best to bounce around but if I have to help a customer out to her car, I can't have a manager screaming at me to bag another lane.
Have you ever gotten written up? If not, who cares. Just do your job. Don't overthink. It'll just leave you angry.
Basically... this. It's very hard to care when working at a place like Kroger. I know not all Kroger stores are run the same way, but judging by what others have said here and what I see almost on a daily basis, employees that are lazy and don't care can get by without no consequences and the ones that work themselves hard aren't rewarded with much beyond words. Why should you care when the ones above you and the ones around you, don't? Yes, it will make you angry, and there is nothing you can do to invoke positive change. I used to observe and make suggestions to correct what I perceived to be problems in order to make the store a better place for customers and employees and you know what? I stopped because I grew tired and angry with being told how great my ideas were while never, ever seeing any of them implemented. I used to try to do the work of two people in order to pick up the slack of those around me that weren't working that hard at all, and you know what? I stopped that too because all I was doing was wearing myself out and stressing out and I was still being paid the same as the lazy ones, so I just started doing my job and stopped trying to do my job plus theirs.
Corporate doesn't care. Management doesn't care. Nobody in general cares. So why should you? Whether you do or don't, you still get paid the same, so just worry about you and nobody else in the store. Is that the wrong attitude to have? Yes, but any other attitude will get you nothing but aggravation and make working at Kroger an even bigger annoyance than it already is.
We had 1 bagger scheduled on the morning of the third. He's was a trainee. Management had him go up stairs to finish his computer training while the gloor was packed with people. Was not a good time.
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75% of our baggers are retarded (not being facetious, i mean literal tards) and can't get carts off the lot, put up go-backs, clean the restrooms, clean up spills, communicate with customers, or haul trash. they just stand at the end of the lanes and quite poorly and slowly bag people's groceries while everyone else from the other departments have to pick up the slack
75% of our baggers are retarded (not being facetious, i mean literal tards) and can't get carts off the lot, put up go-backs, clean the restrooms, clean up spills, communicate with customers, or haul trash. they just stand at the end of the lanes and quite poorly and slowly bag people's groceries while everyone else from the other departments have to pick up the slack
If that's true, If I were one of the mentally competent baggers, I'd file a discrimination complaint. Simply do exactly what the others do (specifically, what they don't do) and dare management to write you up. Discrimination is against the law.
Someone once told me that Kroger gets something like a $30,000 tax break per year for every mentally retarded (Oops- I forgot, can't call them that, not politically correct- They are "Special Needs") person they hire. Anyone know if this is true? Do Store Managers get some kind of a bonus for hiring "Special Needs" as baggers? There must be big money involved in this, because once these mentally retarded Special Needs kids get hired, they never get fired no matter how incompetent they are. My checker job is hanging by a thread because a Special Needs bagger tattled on me to the Store Manager and told him I was giving "poor customer service" for talking to a Union Steward at the checkstand while checking out a customers groceries. I got a 5 day progressive discipline write up from the Store Manager for that, and the UFCW #7 was no help at all. UFCW #7 takes the position that the "Store Manager is always right". The Union Sucks.
They can get a tax break by hiring certain classifications; you would've noticed this in your hiring paperwork if you paid attention.
The Work Opportunity Tax Credit lets them get credit for 40% of the qualifying person's first year wages, in the latest I read, it was capped at $2,400 per employee. They have to work at least 400 hours. These people deserve the dignity of a job as much as anyone even if their abilities are limited. Would you be happier if they lived entirely off your tax dollars? Get over it. If you can't compete with them and move up, can't be understanding of them, what's that say about you?
We have a penchant for not having enough baggers on schedule. EVEN during the busiest times. They say not enough hours. Bull crap. If they can afford to hire new people, then they can afford to Schedule more baggers during peak hours. Jus' sayin'
