It's all one way with them! For the past two weeks I've been scheduled several shifts of five and three quarter hours SO that they don't have to give me a second break ! Is this happening elsewhere???
Kroger is just that chintzy!!! However they expect all these extras from us, smile more, engage the customer, volunteer your time for charity, work faster!!
I wasn't trying to get a lunch break. I was trying to not have to work straight five and three quarter hours with only one break.
Usually on a six-hour shift we get two breaks, but anything less they only have to give you one break, hence the new 5 3\4 hour shifts. The hypocrisy comes in when they ask you to do extra, over and above your job, and yet they can't eek out your second break, like whats15 minutes anyway in the grand scheme of things?
As a bagger / cashier I'm asked to sling (ring/scan) the groceries down faster and faster and slam them into a bag faster and faster all the while smiling and engaging the customer when I'm dead on my feet because i haven't had my second break and it's going on 6 hours. This fosters resentment amoung the slaves.
Many times I am the only bagger with 6 registers open and I'm told to bounce up and down the line and in your spare time run outside to get shopping carts out of the parking lot and run while you're doing it because we need to go faster.
Our union seems to be a minor annoyance to Kroger, so things aren't going to get better.
-- Edited by timepasses on Tuesday 12th of July 2016 11:05:33 AM
Get used to it because it's only going to get worse. Much worse.
Technically, you're "lucky" if you're contract says you get a second break after six hours. Here, we only get one fifteen minute break for anything under seven hours. Seven or eight hours is a thirty minute break. That is, assuming you even get your break. Try working an eight hour shift without one and then see how you feel.
You people are freaking lucky if you get a lunch under 8 hours. We have to do more then a 8 1/2 hour shift to get a lunch otherwise its only two breaks. ****ing a man. At least it don't matter if we do a four hour shift, still get a break in there. Sometimes our CSRs will let us do two breaks if we are near 7 / 8 or in that half hour window. (company does not believe in not being paid for time in store, hence the very rare if any over 8 hour shifts, minors excluded because of labor laws.)
-- Edited by UC151 on Wednesday 13th of July 2016 03:02:30 AM
You were lucky to get a break at all where I worked. The timeclock was in front, the break room in back. By the time you clocked out for a break, helped the three customers and made it to the back room, your 15 minutes were up. Then it's time to clock back in. Sigh.
We have to work 7 hours to get a second break and anyone 18 or over does NOT ever get a lunch. That means if we work 6.75 hours we usually get a break after about 2 hours and have to work four or more hours without a break.
