Look, it's nice that you'll be feeding us on Easter. I appreciate it, really I do. But is there a need to put up a bunch of flyers that say "If you're spending the day with your Kroger family on Easter, there will be food upstairs." No I'm not spending the day with my "kroger family." I don't have a Kroger family, and I'm not there to "spend time" with them. I'm working on a holiday with my coworkers.
Hey, accept the free food and be happy. Someone had to get stuck working the holiday (i'm leaving here in a few minutes to go to work). I hope there's free food tonight, i didn't even think about it, but usually my store is pretty nice about that. Last year everyone who worked Thanksgiving got a free meal from the deli.
You're complaining about free food on a holiday? Seriously?
I had to work an 8 hour shift today. It was extremely busy because we were the only grocery store chain open in my entire city. I got absolutely nothing for working on Easter.
Around the time of Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas, management at my store provides soft drinks/water along with ham/chicken/chips/sides like Deviled Eggs/vegetable trays to go along with the dishes/desserts employees bring for the pot luck. There are even contests for best side and best dessert which result in Kroger gift cards as prizes, courtesy of the Cultural Council. It helps make working around and on the holidays a little more pleasant and it's something management doesn't have to do, so I think it's nice. Nobody wants to work holidays, but it's retail... and unless it's Costco or Aldi or a handful of others, it's just the way it is, but if you have a decent management team, it can be made a little more tolerable.
Also too, you will find some Kroger stores out there actually are like a family. I would know because I work at one. When misfortune/tragedy strikes a co-worker, for the most part, everyone wants to do something to try and help that person out. I've seen employees donate money to help other employees with hospital bills and I've seen employees be there for others in times of loss/difficulty. Some of us spend more time at our stores working with our co-workers/with management than we do with our actual families. People do form bonds with one another. Not everyone does... but some stay, despite the poor pay/benefits because of their fellow co-workers. Sometimes it's who you work with that matters more than going to a new job with new people and earning a dollar or two an hour more. Sometimes.
-- Edited by GenesisOne on Sunday 5th of April 2015 08:40:45 PM
I actually agree with that. While Kroger isn't perfect, some of the people there are like a little family (even if it is dysfunctional).
When a coworker of mine who works nutrition had her baby and it was born with a birth defect, we all came together to do a fundraiser to help her out. Anyone who chipped in any amount of money, was able to have a taco party in the breakroom that day.
There's a lady right now who has cancer, so I hope someone puts together a fundraiser for her soon. I'm not on the cultural council, but our CC group is pretty good about that type of thing.
