Management at the store I work has started posting all these sheets of paper on the walls in the break room and by the communication board (where the schedule/ring tender sheets and other stuff goes) with questions on them like, "Are you proud to work for your company?" and underneath the questions are little "Did You Know?" type stuff, like how Kroger was voted one of the country's most generous companies to work for by Forbes, and other stuff like Kroger values the health and wellness of its employees by offering comprehensive, affordable health insurance.
There are like seven or eight different sheets like that posted and it didn't dawn on me until in one of the recent huddles, our store manager was talking about the associate survey did I realize that they are trying to feed us the "correct answers" to the questions on the survey. What is the point of even doing the survey if they are telling us on these sheets of paper and in the huddles how to respond?
Target just increased starting pay to $10.00 to match Walmart. Nobody in the huddle dared to mention that when our manager was talking about how we should be proud to work for such a generous company, lol. It was almost funny when nobody said anything when our manager asked for somebody to step up and explain why they were proud to work for Kroger. Just dead silence, lol.
I'm personally very proud to represent the clearly strongest, most resilliant and profitable retail business in the world. I have elected to continue persuing my career with this fine company, and I will be doing it one employee firing after another. I just fired seven slackers last week; I cannot tell you what an enormous rush it was to watch them, all long-time middle aged and old people, crying as they clutched their final pay checks and stumbled out the door.
If I even suspect any of you are employed in my store, you'll be next. I seriously get off on doing this, as it boosts my bonus margins, makes me look all the better to my superiors and, not to mention, saves the Kroger company TONS of $$.
Walmart, Target, McD's...all have raised their wages to 9 or better. Many others started at that point. I don't think Kroger realizes how dire their situation is. Their oldtimers are retiring, or leaving because of all this new **** that's coming out. On top of that, they can't retain many new employees because they don't pay enough nor give enough hours to justify it. They're wisening up.
As for that troll above me, I escaped, so even if you were in the store that I worked at, you couldn't get my ass. :D
-- Edited by thestruggleisreal on Wednesday 20th of April 2016 04:33:15 PM
So many better companies up and coming to work for...they just don't care if the good employees now goto HEB or whole foods. Kroger is about as high as they will ever be. All down hill from here.
Management at the store I work has started posting all these sheets of paper on the walls in the break room and by the communication board (where the schedule/ring tender sheets and other stuff goes) with questions on them like, "Are you proud to work for your company?" and underneath the questions are little "Did You Know?" type stuff, like how Kroger was voted one of the country's most generous companies to work for by Forbes, and other stuff like Kroger values the health and wellness of its employees by offering comprehensive, affordable health insurance.
There are like seven or eight different sheets like that posted and it didn't dawn on me until in one of the recent huddles, our store manager was talking about the associate survey did I realize that they are trying to feed us the "correct answers" to the questions on the survey. What is the point of even doing the survey if they are telling us on these sheets of paper and in the huddles how to respond?
Target just increased starting pay to $10.00 to match Walmart. Nobody in the huddle dared to mention that when our manager was talking about how we should be proud to work for such a generous company, lol. It was almost funny when nobody said anything when our manager asked for somebody to step up and explain why they were proud to work for Kroger. Just dead silence, lol.
Like always, im sure the union bought that spot on Forbes, just like all the anti walmart stuff you see on yahoo news.
Minimum wage. Depends on the state, so some get paid at like $7.25 (national minimum). I started at 7.40 until Michigan raised the minimum wage. Had I stayed, I would've had a .10 raise last August. That's also dependent on contracts and ****.
Although...I knew of one of my co-workers who made like 10 bucks an hour and he'd only been there 2 years. He was a college student, so I don't think it was experience pay (especially since someone else never got hers).
I make 10 bucks an hour now but it took me 4.5 years to get there. In Ohio, that actually has a higher minimum wage than the federal minimum. How in the world did this guy do it?? lol
I'm personally very proud to represent the clearly strongest, most resilliant and profitable retail business in the world. I have elected to continue persuing my career with this fine company, and I will be doing it one employee firing after another. I just fired seven slackers last week; I cannot tell you what an enormous rush it was to watch them, all long-time middle aged and old people, crying as they clutched their final pay checks and stumbled out the door.
If I even suspect any of you are employed in my store, you'll be next. I seriously get off on doing this, as it boosts my bonus margins, makes me look all the better to my superiors and, not to mention, saves the Kroger company TONS of $$.
Co Man Joe
When they adjust their wages (up to $10.00 like other places) and treat their employees with respect, then people will be proud.
Oh, hey troll, I didn't know you were here. All I read was blah, blah, blah, something about firing, blah, blah.
I am proud to work for the Kroger company. I get paid exceptionally well. I've worked for them for 15 years! and I take great pride in my work. We could always use more hours and I know some wages in the south aren't that great(I'm in the northwest).What I'm not proud of is the douchebag generation of workers that come in and don't think they need to learn how to do their jobs properly, don't take instructions well, and have no sense of urgency, or take any sort of pride in their work. They just come in and count the minutes until they leave. There are a few here and there that have been raised with a proper work ethic but it's few and far between.
I am proud to work for the Kroger company. I get paid exceptionally well. I've worked for them for 15 years! and I take great pride in my work. We could always use more hours and I know some wages in the south aren't that great(I'm in the northwest).What I'm not proud of is the douchebag generation of workers that come in and don't think they need to learn how to do their jobs properly, don't take instructions well, and have no sense of urgency, or take any sort of pride in their work. They just come in and count the minutes until they leave. There are a few here and there that have been raised with a proper work ethic but it's few and far between.
I agree completely. I am in Northeast.
The starting pay sux but so do most of the people Kroger hires. There are opportunities for advancement if people want them but most don't.
Example from lastnight: I told a part time coworker at beginning of shift that I might need her to stay past her scheduled shift(12-5). She told me she was leaving at 5. Period. I immediately told her she needs to stay over mandatory 2 hours or until the work is done. She didn't argue with me after that. She flew thru the first aisle I gave her to do. She only needed to stay an hour over and we didn't have any OT.
I am proud to work for the Kroger company. I get paid exceptionally well. I've worked for them for 15 years! and I take great pride in my work. We could always use more hours and I know some wages in the south aren't that great(I'm in the northwest).What I'm not proud of is the douchebag generation of workers that come in and don't think they need to learn how to do their jobs properly, don't take instructions well, and have no sense of urgency, or take any sort of pride in their work. They just come in and count the minutes until they leave. There are a few here and there that have been raised with a proper work ethic but it's few and far between.
I agree completely. I am in Northeast.
The starting pay sux but so do most of the people Kroger hires. There are opportunities for advancement if people want them but most don't.
Example from lastnight: I told a part time coworker at beginning of shift that I might need her to stay past her scheduled shift(12-5). She told me she was leaving at 5. Period. I immediately told her she needs to stay over mandatory 2 hours or until the work is done. She didn't argue with me after that. She flew thru the first aisle I gave her to do. She only needed to stay an hour over and we didn't have any OT.
People who will accept low wages aren't the type to want to work hard or stay late. The person in your example, probably told themselves, "Its not worth the fight, I'll just hustle up and get out of here". Seems like the person did prove you a bit wrong, but maybe they didn't really do all the work. If kroger was willing to raise their wages then they could be attract more people and not have to take what rolls in.
OP, employee survey come up this time of year and management tries butter folks up, but don't fall for it. Like others have said I take pride in my work, but not working for kroger. I started in '03 when I was 19, and the contracts were actually good. When an assistant spot opened up or something like that people were jumping on it like a lose football in the superbowl. Now people are running the other way. Wonder why?
My only question is, even if they did start offering new hires $10 an hour, would they adjust everyone else's pay, or would i be stuck making the same as the new hires after 4.5 years? That'd be another way to piss off and make the long term employees leave.
The sad thing is, people only know the bad stuff they hear in the news about walmart. I had a customer once say "oh i shop at Kroger because they are union and pay their employees well". I just about laughed my ass off.
I'm personally very proud to represent the clearly strongest, most resilliant and profitable retail business in the world. I have elected to continue persuing my career with this fine company, and I will be doing it one employee firing after another. I just fired seven slackers last week; I cannot tell you what an enormous rush it was to watch them, all long-time middle aged and old people, crying as they clutched their final pay checks and stumbled out the door.
If I even suspect any of you are employed in my store, you'll be next. I seriously get off on doing this, as it boosts my bonus margins, makes me look all the better to my superiors and, not to mention, saves the Kroger company TONS of $$.
Co Man Joe
When they adjust their wages (up to $10.00 like other places) and treat their employees with respect, then people will be proud.
Oh, hey troll, I didn't know you were here. All I read was blah, blah, blah, something about firing, blah, blah.
Hey dimwit ("I spell it Megakitteh on purpose, no I didn't misspell kitten"......RIIIIIGHT, RETARD), you do know you're the only one who responded to the blah-blah troll, right? ---And did you tie your shoes today? Just checkin'
The sad thing is, people only know the bad stuff they hear in the news about walmart. I had a customer once say "oh i shop at Kroger because they are union and pay their employees well". I just about laughed my ass off.
The union spends more time and money going after Walmart than it does on its union members. Why? It's simple: the union bosses see nothing but millions in dollars if they were to somehow unionize Walmart. There's more money in it for them to run Walmart's name through the mud in the eyes of the public than there is in negotiating strong contracts that are in the best interests of Kroger employees.
I can't express how happy I am I never gave the union the opportunity to stick its grubby hands in my pockets. And don't anybody come back at me and say "well, if you were a part of the union, the contracts would be better." Truly, utter BS. The union that represents Kroger employees is corrupt and useless. Long time employees that have been with Kroger for twenty years that are in the union have said to me that the union is in bed with Kroger. Our freaking union steward said that the union is a "company union". Every time a union rep is out at our store, it's not to defend employees, it's to recruit, recruit, recruit. The union reps that come out like to claim the union "is strong" and boasts how a "majority of Kroger employees are union members". Uh huh. Okay. If that were true and the union is so strong and the union has that many employees backing it up, why did the union again agree to cuts in employee health insurance while jacking up the health insurance rates? Why does the union allow such a pathetically low starting pay vs. NON UNION retail jobs and terrible raises? The union that represents Kroger employees is nothing but a massive scam operation. Kroger gets rich, the union bosses get rich and the only one that gets screwed is YOU, the employee.
Is Kroger union? The union grocery, stop & shop, has full-time worker that have been there 10-15 years making 17-20 an hour. Any kroger people making that?
Is Kroger union? The union grocery, stop & shop, has full-time worker that have been there 10-15 years making 17-20 an hour. Any kroger people making that?
I know a night clerk at S&S making 30 an hour. Been with the company 40 years.
Is Kroger union? The union grocery, stop & shop, has full-time worker that have been there 10-15 years making 17-20 an hour. Any kroger people making that?
I know a night clerk at S&S making 30 an hour. Been with the company 40 years.
Pictures or it didn't happen. I suppose in California, that is a possible wage. Otherwise, they would be making that if it was overtime pay. I make $28/hr on overtime pay.
Is Kroger union? The union grocery, stop & shop, has full-time worker that have been there 10-15 years making 17-20 an hour. Any kroger people making that?
I know a night clerk at S&S making 30 an hour. Been with the company 40 years.
Pictures or it didn't happen. I suppose in California, that is a possible wage. Otherwise, they would be making that if it was overtime pay. I make $28/hr on overtime pay.
He makes Double time which is $60 for Sunday pay for him, since he is grandfathered in. Current full-timers make time and a half on sundays. He doesn't work Sundays and the managers prefer it that way. This S&S is in connecticut. Current raises for full-timers is 50 cents a year. He's retiring soon and he has a lot of money in stocks.
Cost of living is so high in California, that wage isn't too surprising.
I like what I do at Kroger, and I take a lot of pride in my work, but I wouldn't say I'm proud of/for the company. We have a really sh#tty company culture from the top all the way down.
I'm personally very proud to represent the clearly strongest, most resilliant and profitable retail business in the world. I have elected to continue persuing my career with this fine company, and I will be doing it one employee firing after another. I just fired seven slackers last week; I cannot tell you what an enormous rush it was to watch them, all long-time middle aged and old people, crying as they clutched their final pay checks and stumbled out the door.
If I even suspect any of you are employed in my store, you'll be next. I seriously get off on doing this, as it boosts my bonus margins, makes me look all the better to my superiors and, not to mention, saves the Kroger company TONS of $$.
Co Man Joe
When they adjust their wages (up to $10.00 like other places) and treat their employees with respect, then people will be proud.
Oh, hey troll, I didn't know you were here. All I read was blah, blah, blah, something about firing, blah, blah.
Hey dimwit ("I spell it Megakitteh on purpose, no I didn't misspell kitten"......RIIIIIGHT, RETARD), you do know you're the only one who responded to the blah-blah troll, right? ---And did you tie your shoes today? Just checkin'
Yes mama retard, I tied my shoes. Now, don't forget to wear your "special helmet" so you won't get ouchies from thinking to hard about a come-back
