I quit Kroger this week. Got a new job making 11.00/hr to start. There you are expected to take your breaks and lunch, whereas my produce department expected me to work straight through. The job is fast paced, as was produce, but I am much more likely to give a damn about your fast pace when it does not involve slicing up fruit.
Congrats to you! From everything I've read on here, you're better off selling blood plasma, selling stolen aluminum and roofing houses than working for Kroger.
Good going! Kroger deserves to lose employees considering how the company treats its people. You're so on target with the complaint about breaks. Unless you have a really good and caring department head or management team, getting breaks that you're entitled to can be like pulling teeth on a daily basis. It's because how understaffed and how little employees care nowadays due to the way the company treats its employees that the ones that do work hard are expected to pick up the slack and work extra hard, which tends to involve little or no consideration about ensuring that the ones doing the heavy lifting get the breaks that they have coming to them.
Good luck at your new job and enjoy your more deserving pay rate!
You folks all work with sh!t show stores and managers that don't know wtf they are doing lol. I force my produce employees to take breaks and lunches. I've worked for Kroger for too long to not allow it.
Start going to school. It does not matter what you major in. You don't need a degree to be successful, but it sure helps. Luck favors those that are prepared. Find something that you love doing and become passionate about it. You will be successful.
I used to stock shelves before I had grey in my hair. I did that until I was about 22. I was making $11.50 an hour working graveyards. It was a job that I hated. It is now 20 years later and in a few months I will have a Masters degree in project management. I never thought that I would get an associated degree, much less reach the masters level.
I has not taken me 20 years to find my calling. The first job that I was passionate about was delivering pizzas. I earned about $25 an hour. It was a great job and I have awesome stories about the lunacy that happened during this career.
When I was 25 I got a great job working for a major electronics retailer. I started out at $12.00 per hour. Eleven years later I was earning 55K per year. That job ended and I went to work for a company fixing video games. I started off at about $45k. At the end of this career I was earning 75K.
The job had a physical component and I knew that I didn't want to be in my 50's pushing around video games. I started going to school back in 2009. Got a Bachelor's Degree in 2014. When I finished I went straight into the Master's program. I will finish in December.
I am currently an intern working as a project manager. My thesis requires an unpaid internship. When I complete my degree I will become their first VP. I expect to earn 60-80K per year my first year and within three years I will be in the six figure range.
Start going to school. It does not matter what you major in. You don't need a degree to be successful, but it sure helps. Luck favors those that are prepared. Find something that you love doing and become passionate about it. You will be successful.
I used to stock shelves before I had grey in my hair. I did that until I was about 22. I was making $11.50 an hour working graveyards. It was a job that I hated. It is now 20 years later and in a few months I will have a Masters degree in project management. I never thought that I would get an associated degree, much less reach the masters level.
I has not taken me 20 years to find my calling. The first job that I was passionate about was delivering pizzas. I earned about $25 an hour. It was a great job and I have awesome stories about the lunacy that happened during this career.
When I was 25 I got a great job working for a major electronics retailer. I started out at $12.00 per hour. Eleven years later I was earning 55K per year. That job ended and I went to work for a company fixing video games. I started off at about $45k. At the end of this career I was earning 75K.
The job had a physical component and I knew that I didn't want to be in my 50's pushing around video games. I started going to school back in 2009. Got a Bachelor's Degree in 2014. When I finished I went straight into the Master's program. I will finish in December.
I am currently an intern working as a project manager. My thesis requires an unpaid internship. When I complete my degree I will become their first VP. I expect to earn 60-80K per year my first year and within three years I will be in the six figure range.
So in your spare time, you hang around the Kroger forum?
My thesis requires an unpaid internship. When I complete my degree I will become their first VP.
Nice story to at least show some possibilities.
On the other hand, a degree is not a guarantee. At least four clerks in one medium-sized store are degreed, and it hasn't saved us from the clutches of The Krog.
