What is the dumbest thing you've been written up for? Here's a classic: Not calling management for help whenever ONE of the 5 lines has more than one person in line. Like what the hell
Not clocking a sweep when out to lunch (refused to sign right up, write up dismissed)
But the winner is:
Being written up for refusing to sign a write up. They mistook me for someone else (had same last name), write up STILL held, because I refused to sign
For me, I was almost written up for being absent on my only day off one week.
I work nights. I am part time. I can be scheduled 6 days a week for 24 hours if they want.
No one knows how to read the night schedule for entering it into kronos. Not even the payroll person. The computer sent a printout to the manager that I was "absent".
To top it off: The store manager tried to give it to me more than 7 days after it occurred. They have to get it acknowledged within 7 days of the incident or it didn't happen.
What is the dumbest thing you've been written up for? Here's a classic: Not calling management for help whenever ONE of the 5 lines has more than one person in line. Like what the hell
lol. That explains why the CSM always calls the manager upfront when it gets busy.
For me, I was almost written up for being absent on my only day off one week.
I work nights. I am part time. I can be scheduled 6 days a week for 24 hours if they want.
No one knows how to read the night schedule for entering it into kronos. Not even the payroll person. The computer sent a printout to the manager that I was "absent".
To top it off: The store manager tried to give it to me more than 7 days after it occurred. They have to get it acknowledged within 7 days of the incident or it didn't happen.
Glad the write up was void. Being written up for a no show on YOUR day off? If they had tried that with me, id have laughed and refused to sign.
I had management that tried to fire me for any kind of reason. The best one yet was being accused for calling a buddy of mine a racist slur. Although he even knew that I didn't they made it stick.
Here's a good one. I work in the meat/seafood department. One day a customer asks if I can slice a roast in two for them, I say sure. Manager sees me and writes me up for "using dangerous equipment without proper training." 1 month later same situation. Only this time I tell the customer that I am not able to slice or cut anything. They complained that I was not willing to do my job. Written up again. For following policy. Gotta love it.
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I didn't get a write up, I got the "step before the write up" where they give you the paper to warn you? Anyway for being absent 3 times within 3 months. Only the 2nd "absence" wasn't actually an absence, I was there that day.
I got written up for not carding a + 70 year old female while she was buying alcohol. I got wrote up again for telling future customers I had to see their ID, because I got wrote up for not carding a 70 year old.
I've also been written up for being consistently several hours late, but they consistently scheduled me outside of my availability while I was in class.
Got written up for leaving at my assigned time. I worked a 6-10 and left at that time because my friends were taking me out for my b-day. Came in the next day with a write up waiting for me. I refused to sign and it was dismissed when I wanted to call my union.
Not 5 minutes later a new write up: calling the reason for the dismissed write up a "Jack assey" reason to be wrote up.
Supposedly I had been written up as a co-manager for the performance of the store at one point. I never got the write up, and I was never spoken to about it, but heard about it through the grapevine that they were gunning for me and the other co at my store. So I hurried up and got another job and noped the **** out of there. My suspicions were confirmed when no overtures were made to try and keep me. They were all nice when I left, said I could always come back and what not, but I had to bite my tongue to keep from laughing.
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My views don't reflect those of anyone, not even me. I may not have even made this statement. It's all lies, all of it!
Supposedly I had been written up as a co-manager for the performance of the store at one point. I never got the write up, and I was never spoken to about it, but heard about it through the grapevine that they were gunning for me and the other co at my store. So I hurried up and got another job and noped the **** out of there. My suspicions were confirmed when no overtures were made to try and keep me. They were all nice when I left, said I could always come back and what not, but I had to bite my tongue to keep from laughing.
Management positions must suck if your ass is at the mercy of store performance. I mean really can YOU help it if a truck comes a day late, if all your employees don't care about the store, or if none of your prices are super low? What's silliest to me is that you got a write-up. That's like giving a college student a time out for making a C- on an English paper.
Got a write-up for taking a picture of a dead mouse only you couldnt tell where the picture came from. I posted it on my social media website because I call my sister mouse. We both laughed. Next day I walk into work and I am being written up for something that doesn't have krogers name titled to it in any way shape or form. So I found all the managers profiles and reported them for being used to harass employees through there social media websites. Some day it will be a crime here in texas because someone is gonna file a lawsuit for this kind of childish behavior.
I would have laughed and walked right out the office in mid write up.
Anywho, the other day I was going to be wrote up for another co-worker's error. He didn't do his go backs when assigned and unlucky me, was chosen to help him. Well, it was supposed to be HIM getting the write up. They called me into the office to sign HIS write up with MY name... So.... I did the proper thing and signed HIS name. They asked why I did that and I simply replied before walking out, it's HIS write up. So HIS name goes on. Yeah... They WERENT to happy with me. Tough ****.
If I KNOW I did something wrong, then ILL OWN up to it. I WILL NOT take ownership for OTHER PEOPLE's Mistakes.
Here's a good one. I work in the meat/seafood department. One day a customer asks if I can slice a roast in two for them, I say sure. Manager sees me and writes me up for "using dangerous equipment without proper training." 1 month later same situation. Only this time I tell the customer that I am not able to slice or cut anything. They complained that I was not willing to do my job. Written up again. For following policy. Gotta love it.
Typical Kroger bulls-h-it.
I was written up today for complaining to a supervisor and saying inappropriate things to them. I had been pushing carts in 95 degree weather. This is a weight that equals mine (about 150-160 pounds) and it is the day before Memorial Day so of course we can't keep carts in the store. And since I'm one person and had no help at the time all I could do was what I could do.
So supervisor steps outside and I am pushing carts toward the store. I am hot, sweaty, tired, stressed and pushing 150 pounds where I have had customers walking in front like they could give a rat's ass about me. I say to my supervisor "Please don't say anything. This is the best that I can do. This job is not worth minimum wage! I'm just doing the best that I can."
She says she doesn't set the pay rate, and she knows what a good job I am doing. I thank her and move the carts inside.
Well co-manager, the hardlined b-i-t-c-h who has lost her soul to the store, comes out at the end of my one-hour and "invites" me up to the conference room. Turned out the supervisor had complained to them about what I had said, and I ended up being written up for the whole thing.
I admitted my culpability in it, despite the fact that it was supervisor's word against my own. I tried to explain that I was stressed out, that it was hot, I was sunburned, tired, stressed, in a bit of pain...mostly stressed. I repeatedly said that I recognized it was not an excuse for my behavior, but I tried to explain to them where it CAME from.
Their response? "We told you that you would be doing this when we hired you. If you think that you can't hack it, we are fine with that. You can leave and we can part ways and we are fine with that."
In the write-up said heartless b-i-t-c-h of a manager worded her "report" as if I was bullying my supervisor. I was not. I had even said please. When I pointed out to her that she didn't mention that word anywhere in the "report", her response, and I quote, "Please wouldn't have changed the context."
I am so the hell out of Kroger. I just wish I had decided to leave on Labor Day rather than Memorial Day. It would make the irony better. But as of today I am looking for somewhere else. I am still working there until I find something better (which is almost anything) but I am not giving 110 percent if they don't care about the 100.
Oh did I mention I am in my second straight week of 14 hours a week when just a few weeks ago I was 20 hours a week? I thought it might be because they had hired some new courtesy clerks on and were setting them some hours. But now I wonder because the same manager without a soul is the one who sets the schedule.
Kroger sucks. They want the highest dollar for the lowest bottom line with the least amount of labor. And that goddamn parking lot is not worth a write-up.
I smartly refused to sign it, but I did make the mistake of not asking for union representation. At least from reading in this forum I think I had that right and ability. Oh well. Screw them. Soon as I find something that doesn't make me feel as if I am unappreciated and used as slave labor I am out of there. I'm really debating with myself if I should even give a two week notice. Bastards. I'm trying not to sound immature or like I am ranting, but I bust my ass and I have seen so much crap go on in that store in the three months I have been courtesy clerk. Communication stinks. Management is unfeeling. Customers could give a damn as long as they get their instant gratification. I've seen the parking lot fill up with carts because the courtesy clerk responsible gets called into an impromptu meeting on whatever policy they're trying to rehash. I got scheduled for parking lot one day at 6 p.m. when I wasn't scheduled to come in until 6 p.m. And I have seen so many customers frustrated for so many reasons that could easily have been avoided. All I can do is hope that this store chokes to death on its OSAT after I leave. I know I won't ever be giving a good review.
