Ah I would say that you should pursue the discrimination issue. This isn't kroger being evil, it is your manager being evil. Kroger works with employees who have multiple jobs all the time.

Sorry for all the trouble you're getting from management. I'm gay, have gay co-workers, and my store is very nice to work in.

However, I think you're misinterpreting the fact that management won't work with your hours for your other job because you're gay.

Kroger hires you & tells you that you need to work weekends. That is the busiest time of the week and when you're needed.

As a part-time employee, you are basically obligated to work weekends unless you request one off every once in a while.

While I don't agree with this, they really don't have to work with your schedule. You work for Kroger, Kroger doesn't work for you.

Kroger sees you as a body, nothing more. There is no point to working with you and them being inconvenienced when they can just fill your spot, probably with someone for less $ and more open availability.

This isn't skilled labor. They aren't desperate to keep you, so they're not going to bend over backwards to keep you. This is a ****ty way to look at it, but it's reality.

If you look at the direction Kroger is going in, they are not interested in employee retention.

Kroger's staff is eventually going to look like the staff you see in your local McDonalds. Dept managers running around doing everything they can to do their best, being middle-aged and poorly paid yet still have tons of responsibility and high expectations from higher up.

Regular associates are going to be minimum-waged, probably high school students, drop-outs, or those who don't pursue college or trade school. "Burn n turn" I'd like to say.

This all being said, I hope your second job is a whole lot better than this place, and hopefully something that will work with you, be more accepting of you, and something you won't dread doing!

my store has part time workers who are not available one or both weekend days.