kroger hiring 10,000 permanent workers?

Date: Jan 30, 2017

kroger hiring 10,000 permanent workers?

Kenny Powers · Senior Member

I'm surprised that isn't a weekly figure; my stores turnover is probably 1000%.

Date: Jan 31, 2017

HHHMMMM................... EXACTLY what is meant by the term "PERMANENT"????????? I didn't know that there are any jobs at Kroger (in this day and age) that could be called "PERMANENT"!

From the way they keep cutting labor hours / time allotted for each department, 'PERMANANT' sounds like a way of playing with words. Maybe this is an adjunct to our "Permanently low pay", "permanently low hours' and "permanently ineffective managers and infamous Permanently (constantly-failing) boneheaded, time-consuming "Key Retailing" procedures????

Date: Feb 1, 2017

The New workers they hire will probably be teenagers who are lazy as sin while they berate us older workers into working faster.

Date: Feb 1, 2017

looks like 10,000 new people are going to join this forum! wink

BagBoy · Guru

Anonymous wrote:
HHHMMMM................... EXACTLY what is meant by the term "PERMANENT"????????? I didn't know that there are any jobs at Kroger (in this day and age) that could be called "PERMANENT"!
From the way they keep cutting labor hours / time allotted for each department, 'PERMANANT' sounds like a way of playing with words. Maybe this is an adjunct to our "Permanently low pay", "permanently low hours' and "permanently ineffective managers and infamous Permanently (constantly-failing) boneheaded, time-consuming "Key Retailing" procedures????

what they mean is that across the country there will be 10,000 more open worker positions. The company just likes to use the word "jobs" because it has a higher positive notation. In essence they want there to be 1-2+ more people in your store stealing your hours so they don't have to pay or more full time positions.

The turntable just got that much faster.

Date: Feb 4, 2017

It's not in the grocery stores, I'll tell you that. Nobody gets full time outside of managerial positions.

And judging from the half crushed, wobbly, leaning, and strangely mixed loads we get, it's not the warehouses/distribution centers.

My guess is corporate dead weight. It probably takes 5000 pinheads to come up with Taste of Italy, and 5000 more to decide to try it again.

BB57170 · Member

I completely agree with you. The younger ones are very lazy, once they get in the union. Managers don't write you up for being lazy (not doing YOUR job or being a team player). Instead they pick on the ones who do their job, work hard, and aren't in the union.