ask for two more shirts

They must love stinky associates. No one's going to wash 1 shirt and a pair of pants every single day. I've tried to buy a few more ($8/ea), but I've been told that they have none to sell. And when they do another Taste of Mexico program or whatever, it's back to another couple of shirts.

I wish I could order a few online.

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New employee here: One shirt?  That's it?  What....   I mean, are we allowed to buy extras out of our own pocket?  I can't do laundry every night.

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 You have my sympathies. Seriously.

I've had only one and been on staff for four months now as a courtesy clerk.

I look like I have gone swimming sometimes when I come off the lot in 90 degree weather with 20-30 or higher humidity for an hour straight.

But what can I do? Nothing. Our store doesn't even have enough spare shirts for recent hires let alone anyone else.

So I just wait and hope a customer complaints (quietly) about how I look or how I smell. Not much else I can do.

Sometimes if I have to go straight to bagging off 'lot duty' -- and I try not to go direct from 'lot to bagging -- I will tell the customer and the cashier about the whole thing, that it may be a minute, or maybe the customer comments about how I look hot or tired. I will be honest with them and tell them I had to do the parking lot for an hour and don't have clean clothing to change into at the moment.

It's just Kroger dude. Kroger is all about getting the most amount of money for the least amount of labor and caring little for the little guy. I guarantee you our store made at LEAST $200,000 on July 4th (and probably the 3rd as well) but yet I get nothing but minimum wage, have to pay cost at my residence for water bills which go higher when I have to wash my uniform each evening and as a courtesy clerk have little chance of ever seeing a raise or anything more than $8 an hour IF I AM LUCKY. Kroger doesn't care that I look like someone hit me with a hose. They only care that I am bagging groceries and putting on the fakest smile possible.

That Krogeressentials site isn't even for every division. Those shirts look nothing like the ones we have in Cincy/Dayton.

We can buy as many shirts as we want from the manufacturer. Plus, branded hats, coats, vests, beanies, etc. Only the seasonal shirts are free for us.

At our store part time gets one shirt, full time gets two shirts.  We get a new shirt once a year.  I work about 32 to 39 hours - almost full time - but still just one shirt.

 

I have three shirts by now, one so faded that I only wear it on days I'm really pissed about work. (I'll show them!)  One has a hole in the front so I wear it on the days I wear my apron.  The newest one is for my dress up days or when the other two are dirty. 

 

Anyone notice the polo shirts are getting thinner and cheaper just like the plastic bags? 

-- Edited by Ms White on Tuesday 8th of July 2014 02:31:47 AM

Dave and Rodney are struggling to make ends meet....jeeze be thankful you got the job.....dave went with out his afternoon snack the day you started. WOW just WOW

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Anonymous wrote:

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Dave and Rodney are struggling to make ends meet....jeeze be thankful you got the job.....dave went with out his afternoon snack the day you started. WOW just WOW

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 Dave's not here, man.

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ol' dave is still around...trust.