I was suspended for three days for putting plastic in the regular garbage and not the recycling bin...my suspension was up on Wednesday. I've been calling and even visited the store manager to see when I come back to work. She is giving me the run around... saying that she needs to speak with HR and she doesn't know when Im coming back yet but she is the store manager that suspended me... 1. Can they continue to just leave me off the schedule 2. Is there someone else I can talk to 3. Can I get fired for this first time offense... I've been written up before for tardies in my history with Kroger I've been there 5 years total but never for anything like this Please help Thank you
Did you have a Union Steward present when you were suspended? If you did....check with them to see if they know what is going on. You should be back on the schedule....not unless management is going to drag it out for some other reason. Believe me....sometimes issues they go after employees on are totally stupid.
Is this your third time doing that? Is there a plastic Nazi in the store. Once I was called upstairs because I didn't take straps off the boxes before putting them in the bailer. I told the lady store manager wouldn't a simple page saying don't do that be enough, but it wasn't for her.
Someone once put a pallet in the baler on his last day of working. After he made a bale he put a pallet in the baler, closed the door, and nobody noticed until the next morning when management **** a brick.
Someone once put a pallet in the baler on his last day of working. After he made a bale he put a pallet in the baler, closed the door, and nobody noticed until the next morning when management **** a brick.
are you saying he hid a pallet in there or crushed an empty wooden pallet or crushed a full pallet of stuff?
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Someone once put a pallet in the baler on his last day of working. After he made a bale he put a pallet in the baler, closed the door, and nobody noticed until the next morning when management **** a brick.
are you saying he hid a pallet in there or crushed an empty wooden pallet or crushed a full pallet of stuff?
Wow. Talk about "revenge" lol. Well... Management can't do **** except piss and moan.
I was suspended for three days for putting plastic in the regular garbage and not the recycling bin...my suspension was up on Wednesday. I've been calling and even visited the store manager to see when I come back to work. She is giving me the run around... saying that she needs to speak with HR and she doesn't know when Im coming back yet but she is the store manager that suspended me... 1. Can they continue to just leave me off the schedule 2. Is there someone else I can talk to 3. Can I get fired for this first time offense... I've been written up before for tardies in my history with Kroger I've been there 5 years total but never for anything like this Please help Thank you
Wow. that's a pretty b-u-l-l-s-h-i-t excuse for suspending someone. And for three days? Damn. I have heard of high schoolers suspended for fewer days for doing worse things. Three days? Seriously? That's like getting a ticket for jaywalking and when you show up in the court the judge orders you to jail in general population for two days. Or something like that. You get the idea. Your managers or whomever did that to you sound like a bunch of dicks. Not exactly the most positive environment that I would want to work underneath. But this is Kroger, I am sure somewhere out there they have done worse to other employees. Probably not much though.
I think if the manager is giving you a run-around you need to go over her head. Like, at our store, we have the manager for Front End, but we have the store manager if Miss B-i-t-c-h starts going on a power trip and making things uncomfortable for us as employees. You could always go to HR directly. But if your manager is giving you the run-around then HR may not know the circumstances and may have to tell you that he / she will have to talk to the manager. Which is not to say that HR would also give you the run-around, it is to say that HR would want additional information and to follow established protocols. Which would, of course, be to find out what management thinks.
Five years and suspended for three days for not recycling. Wow. That's just stupid.
Sounds to me like the manager has something against you that's only "legitimate" in their eyes. Did you fail to kiss their ass, do the work of 30 people in UNDER 2 hours, refuse to give up a deserved day off etc... Just kidding.
But seriously, check into this. Being suspended for throwing plastic into the wrong container, ESPECIALLY after only ONE time IS BEYOND RIDICULOUS!!!
That's like being suspended for eating during your lunch break.
Well, but you're supposed to eat during your lunch break. Not supposed to put plastic into the regular trash. Certain local governments impose fines on stores that don't recycle when they should. To answer your question, no you can't get fired for one suspension, and no, they can't just not schedule you at all beyond the time of your suspension. So yeah, talk to your HR and if need be Union steward or rep.
Well, but you're supposed to eat during your lunch break. Not supposed to put plastic into the regular trash. Certain local governments impose fines on stores that don't recycle when they should. To answer your question, no you can't get fired for one suspension, and no, they can't just not schedule you at all beyond the time of your suspension. So yeah, talk to your HR and if need be Union steward or rep.
Thank god ours isn't one of them. Our store which makes thousands of dollars - if not hundreds of thousands - PER DAY would go broke. We make bailers. We have an outlet to recycle plastic bags. But the amount of empty water bottles, aluminum cans, even plastic bags and of course the paper advertisements printed like newspapers that get thrown away DAILY could fill .. well, a landfill. I've always thought of making a suggestion for it and encouraging our store to be more "eco-friendly" but I have also always felt that our store doesn't listen to employees, especially for an idea that would take time, effort and perhaps a small amount of money on its part. Our store is killing the environment. But, thankfully, because I work at Kroger, it's okay. </sarcasm>
Well, but you're supposed to eat during your lunch break. Not supposed to put plastic into the regular trash. Certain local governments impose fines on stores that don't recycle when they should. To answer your question, no you can't get fired for one suspension, and no, they can't just not schedule you at all beyond the time of your suspension. So yeah, talk to your HR and if need be Union steward or rep.
Thank god ours isn't one of them. Our store which makes thousands of dollars - if not hundreds of thousands - PER DAY would go broke. We make bailers. We have an outlet to recycle plastic bags. But the amount of empty water bottles, aluminum cans, even plastic bags and of course the paper advertisements printed like newspapers that get thrown away DAILY could fill .. well, a landfill. I've always thought of making a suggestion for it and encouraging our store to be more "eco-friendly" but I have also always felt that our store doesn't listen to employees, especially for an idea that would take time, effort and perhaps a small amount of money on its part. Our store is killing the environment. But, thankfully, because I work at Kroger, it's okay. </sarcasm>
On the paper issue, I'm shocked we don't have any program for recycling it. I mean we get a lot of weekly ad boxes that are never even opened, but then they get thrown away. And while paper may decompose more easily than plastic, it's still a disgusting waste of time, money, and wood to make them.
Someone once put a pallet in the baler on his last day of working. After he made a bale he put a pallet in the baler, closed the door, and nobody noticed until the next morning when management **** a brick.
are you saying he hid a pallet in there or crushed an empty wooden pallet or crushed a full pallet of stuff?
It was an empty PECO pallet, so Kroger probably lost a few bucks since it was destroyed.
