We have a supervisor at our store who is in a very public relationship with a bagger/cashier who is several years younger. The two leave for breaks together and consistently take much longer than they are supposed to. The bagger also gets special treatment and doesn't have to work nearly as hard as the other baggers. It is frustrating that this is allowed on our front end. Management doesn't say a word. On the days the supervisor works and the bagger doesn't, the bagger comes in and hangs out on the front end for hours. It is unprofessional and ridiculous! I am considering saying something to management. This is breaking the rules, right??
Report it there anonymously with store number, city, state and manager name. Let them relay the suspicion to Kroger corporate managers to deal with it.
Yes, managers are not supposed to be intimate friends with regular employees.
If they insist on having a relationship despite what policy says, it should be kept private and AWAY from the worksite. If they work together they MUST be professional and have a work relationship while on the clock. What they do off the clock is up to them and kroger can't really tell them what to do with their personal life. Report them to ethics point if their relationship carries in the open whilst on the clock. Special treatment is unfair. Everyone should be treated the same.
this scares me cuz im pretty sure it's going on at my store too. they'll even tell the managers that they are dating. what do the managers do? they think its cute and just let the problem grow, meanwhile all the other baggers and cashiers have to work harder. this is just like mcdonalds. a breeding ground for horny teenagers
I routinely do things with the people I supervise outside of work. While maintaining a sexual relationship is not one of those things, I don't find it hard to separate life "outside work" with getting things done. It's not that hard if you don't have your head up your butt, which they most certainly do if they're "in love."
from the sound of it - this is a front end supervisor / not a manager. right? we all need to sleep with some one. Love is a nice thing. I don't really see anything too wrong with having a relationship with a fellow employee (unless u are a fellow too ha haaa ahhhh). Let them love each other and enjoy their companionship. Look around for a date for yourself.
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from the sound of it - this is a front end supervisor / not a manager. right? we all need to sleep with some one. Love is a nice thing. I don't really see anything too wrong with having a relationship with a fellow employee (unless u are a fellow too ha haaa ahhhh). Let them love each other and enjoy their companionship. Look around for a date for yourself.
^This. I'm getting tired of hearing all the bull**** of "dating your co-worker is just not right." This is the 21st century. And nobody has any 'professionalism' to worry about if they are working at Kroger. Oh and floor supervisors have zero authority in write-ups, discipline, or promotions. They can only make reccomendations to management.
from the sound of it - this is a front end supervisor / not a manager. right? we all need to sleep with some one. Love is a nice thing. I don't really see anything too wrong with having a relationship with a fellow employee (unless u are a fellow too ha haaa ahhhh). Let them love each other and enjoy their companionship. Look around for a date for yourself.
^This. I'm getting tired of hearing all the bull**** of "dating your co-worker is just not right." This is the 21st century. And nobody has any 'professionalism' to worry about if they are working at Kroger. Oh and floor supervisors have zero authority in write-ups, discipline, or promotions. They can only make reccomendations to management.
Except that isn't what OP was talking about. This isn't 2 random coworkers, it's a supervisor and one of the employees under them. Which means it's still generally considered a conflict of interest.
from the sound of it - this is a front end supervisor / not a manager. right? we all need to sleep with some one. Love is a nice thing. I don't really see anything too wrong with having a relationship with a fellow employee (unless u are a fellow too ha haaa ahhhh). Let them love each other and enjoy their companionship. Look around for a date for yourself.
^This. I'm getting tired of hearing all the bull**** of "dating your co-worker is just not right." This is the 21st century. And nobody has any 'professionalism' to worry about if they are working at Kroger. Oh and floor supervisors have zero authority in write-ups, discipline, or promotions. They can only make reccomendations to management.
Except that isn't what OP was talking about. This isn't 2 random coworkers, it's a supervisor and one of the employees under them. Which means it's still generally considered a conflict of interest.
Supervisor is not a higher job title than a cashier. Front End Leads and (A)CSM's are, but a floor supervisor is just a cashier. If you think baggers can't date cashiers because of professionalism, then you have a view of Kroger that is way out of reality. They're just horny teenagers who happen to work in the same store most likely.
from the sound of it - this is a front end supervisor / not a manager. right? we all need to sleep with some one. Love is a nice thing. I don't really see anything too wrong with having a relationship with a fellow employee (unless u are a fellow too ha haaa ahhhh). Let them love each other and enjoy their companionship. Look around for a date for yourself.
^This. I'm getting tired of hearing all the bull**** of "dating your co-worker is just not right." This is the 21st century. And nobody has any 'professionalism' to worry about if they are working at Kroger. Oh and floor supervisors have zero authority in write-ups, discipline, or promotions. They can only make reccomendations to management.
Except that isn't what OP was talking about. This isn't 2 random coworkers, it's a supervisor and one of the employees under them. Which means it's still generally considered a conflict of interest.
Supervisor is not a higher job title than a cashier. Front End Leads and (A)CSM's are, but a floor supervisor is just a cashier. If you think baggers can't date cashiers because of professionalism, then you have a view of Kroger that is way out of reality. They're just horny teenagers who happen to work in the same store most likely.
The **** kind of backwards store do you work at where a supervisor is equal to the people they are supervising? That doesn't even make sense.
Associates should avoid situations in which there is, or may seem to be, a conflict
between the personal interests of the associate and the interests of the company. The term
"conflict of interest" describes any circumstance that could cast doubt upon an associate's
ability to act with total objectivity regarding the company's interests.
While it is impossible to anticipate every potential conflict, here are a few examples:
working in the same department or area of the company with a relative or
someone with whom you have a romantic relationship where day-to-day
business operations or responsibilities could be perceived to be influenced by
that relationship.
Contact Kroger's ethics hotline and inform them. You can choose to remain anonymous, but if you get fired for reporting the situation, you have grounds to file a wrongful termination lawsuit.
I work as the FES most nights at my store, and I was interested in a female courtesy clerk but ultimately chose not to pursue her in case somebody were to complain about showing favoritism to her.
No work environment is ever going to be truly free of favoritism and special treatment. The situation you describe is probably pretty common at most Kroger stores because look at the age group the front end typically attracts. Where I work, a few years or so back, a front end supervisor was in a relationship with a cashier. One night, he said something to her that made her very upset and she ran from her register into the woman's restroom and wouldn't come out, thus disrupting the front end's ability to perform to an extent. Right now, there's a young male supervisor that's very popular with the females and is seeing one of them, and yes, he holds others to a different standard than her, but at the same time, he also treats certain males on the front end better than others because he's pals with them, so favoritism and a lack of professionalism doesn't always come up due to two people dating. I can understand your frustration, and if you feel strongly enough about it, drop an anonymous tip at EthicsPoint.
Honestly though, your report may not be considered important enough for anything to be done about it. It's likely that numerous reports are filed regularly and probably only the most "serious" ones are looked into due to limited resources or a lack of willingness to remedy the small issues along with the bigger ones. Kroger is mostly concerned with profit, and unless there's something getting in the way of the profit or theft is occurring, everything else that is reported may not even be of interest.
It can't hurt though to try, if you feel strongly enough about this.
