Well here in Hoosier state our Governor had an Appreciation Day declared for all it's long term employees. He proudly congratulated all the career employees that had served the state so well and so long. However here in Krogerland our mgmt. accepted the company brainwashing and carried out the master greed profit plan by culling off most of the long term full time employees so they could be replaced by part time, no benefit employees. Hope your bonuses are great enough to over ride your consciences for dumping on the folks that made the company as large and well ran that it had become probably way before you were out of college. But you're just a pawn that will also be replaced / ran off when you've been around too long and cost the almighty profit machine too much. So remember what you helped do when it comes your turn to walk the gangplank. What goes around comes around...maybe you can get a job running a convenience store for one third your previous salary...oh and benefits, pension- sorry you won't be eligible for those perks that are given to only the upper elite mgmt pricks that get their jollies hosing the peons out in the trenches...
Business is business. The point is to maximize profit through comfortable profit margins, even if it means cost cutting in manpower.
Do I like it? No. Am I gonna have to accept the fact that it's how it's gonna be? Pretty much.
Yes, and slavery and domestic abuse and rape and murder and pedophelia are realities too. Does that mean I'm going to sit around and just accept it? F U C KK no. I'll Tyler Durden/Fight Club this bull **** at every inch of my reach.
Umm... slavery, rape, and murder aren't quite as voluntary as, say, a job at a grocery store... ???
But yeah, everyone is imitating Wal-Mart more and more every day. Working in retail really opens your eyes. Consumers that have never worked it before have no idea how demanding it is. Just 'oh no, they're out of something, let's raise hell'....
Business is business. The point is to maximize profit through comfortable profit margins, even if it means cost cutting in manpower.
Do I like it? No. Am I gonna have to accept the fact that it's how it's gonna be? Pretty much.
Yes, and slavery and domestic abuse and rape and murder and pedophelia are realities too. Does that mean I'm going to sit around and just accept it? F U C KK no. I'll Tyler Durden/Fight Club this bull **** at every inch of my reach.
Tell me:
-how much did your handler sell you for?
-did your wife beat you into submission to force you to work in Kroger?
-did the rape charges against your assailant get thrown out of court?
-how's the murder conviction going for you?
-have they allowed you to live within two miles of an educational institution?
Please, let's not over-exaggerate things here. I myself dislike many of Kroger's piss poor attitude towards employees, but ain't no one's forcing you to work there. Not even the Job Corps can force you in there. Are there days that makes you wanna go and hit a customer? Definitely! I've had those days, too! But is the job that ****ty and demeaning that you lose any bit of humanity left in you? No, not at all.
Now that I think of it, I'm now remembering the news a few weeks ago about a market chain over at the east coast. Apparently, the employees went on strike after the employee-friendly CEO was replaced. They got him back though, I believe.
The comparison was made of being laid-off with slavery etc. Working at a place is voluntary, but getting fired for no fault of your own is not. And sure, that's the reality, but so are a lot of terrible things: let's not make the "is=ought" fallacy.
Things could be better, and probably should be.
I'm glad I've only worked here like two years. If they fired me I'd have options. Where does someone who's been with Kroger for 20 years go after suddenly being shown the door?
I'm glad I've only worked here like two years. If they fired me I'd have options. Where does someone who's been with Kroger for 20 years go after suddenly being shown the door?
And that's what people who say "just move on and get another job" ought to read.
If you've only been a year or two, perhaps three years with Kroger, then you've still got a chance to bail. But for someone who's invested 10, 20, hell even 30 years of their life with the company as a clerk, well, honestly they're out of luck.
It's true that they could go work at another supermarket. And have fun starting out at minimum wage again, knowing that their union protection is now under a newer (and worse) contract than the old one which didn't protect them either.
