I was told during orientation that as a part-timer in produce I would receive 1 blue shirt and an apron. I could buy additional blue shirts if I wanted for $8 a piece. Is this true and if so does one go thru the store or have to order them from somewhere else? Thanks for your time.
Pants and shirts are provided here, 3 for part time 5 for full time. That would suck if you had to pay for your own and they only gave you 1. They order them through the store.
only shirts were provided here and i had to buy my pants from walmart. how ironic. i can get aditional shirts whenever i need them though..... if we have them in stack. i was given 2 shirts to start and fulltimers got 3.
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I've acquired so many program shirts (i.e. Refresh, Taste of Mexico, a dozen blue shirts) and paid $0 for them. It sounds like your division is full of cheapskates who don't care if their employees refuse to do laundry every. ****ing. Night.
I've acquired so many program shirts (i.e. Refresh, Taste of Mexico, a dozen blue shirts) and paid $0 for them. It sounds like your division is full of cheapskates who don't care if their employees refuse to do laundry every. ****ing. Night.
Not everyone has a washer/dryer at home. Who's gonna stop by a laundromat everyday on the way home if you work part time hours. It's ridiculous if people only get one shirt! Someone should get at least the amount of shirts as days they work per week as most people only do laundry once a week.
When I was in HS I worked at McDonalds I forget how shirts I got only 2 or 3 but acquired many... I'd work probably 5 part time days per week and those shirts got nasty fast! I had mom to wash my **** in HS though, I don't know how people who didn't have a washer/dryer could make it with only 2 shirts as you couldn't wear the same shirt twice without washing it (even though we did at times lol). They had a washing machine in the basement for those to wash their uniform if needed but who wants to hang out at work while doing laundry? The longer you stay around work when you don't have to means the greater chance you get pulled into work (it gets busy or someone didn't show up).
I've acquired so many program shirts (i.e. Refresh, Taste of Mexico, a dozen blue shirts) and paid $0 for them. It sounds like your division is full of cheapskates who don't care if their employees refuse to do laundry every. ****ing. Night.
Maybe if enough people wore dirty shirts that smelled of BO, they would give them more shirts.
I've acquired so many program shirts (i.e. Refresh, Taste of Mexico, a dozen blue shirts) and paid $0 for them. It sounds like your division is full of cheapskates who don't care if their employees refuse to do laundry every. ****ing. Night.
Maybe if enough people wore dirty shirts that smelled of BO, they would give them more shirts.
No they won't. We have a courtesy clerk who is always sweaty and stinks. He used to come hug me when I came into work. I learned quickly to avoid him.
pein my store there are too many chiefs and not enough Indians and no store manager, last one was transferred out to another store recently. think the comment was right where it was said that the chiefs are too tight and cheap as if they give two shirts they will get into trouble. and being a produce clerk I cant afford to wash mine every day Go figure!!!!! Happy Krogering lol
I was only provided with one shirt. I only wash it once a week, on my weekends off, because I don't have time nor the energy after work to do laundry. Same goes for my apron.
I was told during orientation that as a part-timer in produce I would receive 1 blue shirt and an apron. I could buy additional blue shirts if I wanted for $8 a piece. Is this true and if so does one go thru the store or have to order them from somewhere else? Thanks for your time.
Dude.
I have been with my Kroger for nine months. I have a single blue shirt. It has a hole in the right arm. It has bleach stains on the back. And it's all they give me. I supply my own black pants.
My HR person whom oversees the inventory told me that it was all on back-order. That was more than three months ago.
It's total crap. Basically, part-timers don't get a second shirt. Why? Well, officially they can request one and have access to one. But unofficially? Kroger has such poor management, low quality communication, low pay and stressful positions that their turn over rates are so high that the company can't keep employees long-term. So why bother to give a second shirt to someone who is going to walk out the door for a better job two months later after they finally realize these facts?
I've acquired so many program shirts (i.e. Refresh, Taste of Mexico, a dozen blue shirts) and paid $0 for them. It sounds like your division is full of cheapskates who don't care if their employees refuse to do laundry every. ****ing. Night.
Maybe if enough people wore dirty shirts that smelled of BO, they would give them more shirts.
No they won't. We have a courtesy clerk who is always sweaty and stinks. He used to come hug me when I came into work. I learned quickly to avoid him.
I feel your pain Ms. White but please at least think to check if the courtesy clerk came off the parking lot duty. I *always* am sweaty and stink a little bit when I am done there, no matter the weather or the temperatures. Pushing up to half-a-ton of carts in a single hour is not fun, and it's dirty and rough as hell. I probably lose at least one pound per day I work as a result. And almost all of that through sweat.
Which really sucks because I have only one shirt and management won't supply a second. "Back order," they say. "Turn over rate," is what I say to what they say.
I was only provided with one shirt. I only wash it once a week, on my weekends off, because I don't have time nor the energy after work to do laundry. Same goes for my apron.
You must not work in Front End then. As a courtesy clerk the most I let mine go is two days. Any longer after that, with parking lot duty as the main reason, and it can practically be bottled as germ warfare. The odor of sweat and dirt and gas fumes on top of whatever I get from inside the store, it could kill a stray cat.
When I started back in August I got two blue shirts, two black aprons and a hat. We can wear jeans (as long as they look nice and don't have holes) so I didn't have to worry about that. I work in the Deli so I needed slip resistant shoes but thankfully I already had some.
The two shirts were good when I only worked maybe four days a week (which I was okay with as I'm part time and I'm going full time to college. I just needed money to pay for school, gas and the occasional other things). However, working 5-6 days a week is really killing the shirts. I can't stand to wear them more than once before I wash them (I'm trying to use the shirts twice before I wash them now) due to me sweating and getting all kinds of things on it; that and just having them smell like oil and fried food.
I've tried to get more, even willing to pay for them, but every time I tried to ask someone up front who I can talk to they tell me there is no one there at the moment, or just give me a name but not any way to contact that person, or if there is it's just a big hassle (I got close to getting another shirt but the lady couldn't find the keys) and so I've given up.
I've never seen a place be so difficult about getting more shirts... I volunteer at a zoo and they gave me two shirts that you have to wear if you sign up to become a volunteer. I asked for more a week later and they gave me two more, no money necessary and no hassle.
When I started back in August I got two blue shirts, two black aprons and a hat.
I've never seen a place be so difficult about getting more shirts... I volunteer at a zoo and they gave me two shirts that you have to wear if you sign up to become a volunteer. I asked for more a week later and they gave me two more, no money necessary and no hassle.
two blue shirts, aprons and a hat? I work Front End and ten months later I *still* have a single shirt, tear in the right sleeve, small bleach stains on the back and collar.
And never seen a place be so difficult about more shirts? Come work at my store. Of course, maybe the other departments have no problems. But in Front End, when I see our new hires wearing blue shirts, I chuckle to myself. I gave up asking or thinking about a second shirt a long time ago.
The irony being that at least twice now so far if I had a second shirt I could have benefitted the company. once it was a call in asking if I could come in, but I was trying to repair the dryer at home. My shirt had completed the entire washing machine cycle - but with only one, I would have to dry it. By the time my DIY was complete and the shirt was in the dryer, it was too late. Oh well. I am just waiting for it to rip completely somewhere down the sleeve or front so they are forced to give me a second shirt. The fun part being THEN I will still technically have "one" wearable shirt.
Yeah, well thankfully I at least got that. However, I hold no hope that having holes and such in my shirt will get me a new one. Two of my coworkers have holes in their shirts and still haven't gotten a new one. My one female coworker has a hole right by the armpit about the size of a fist. Not pretty.. Oh well.
