Does anyone use this? Every time I go on there all I see is a bunch of co store managers posting pics of them at their hiring station bragging about how many people they hired or how they are "inspired" it's a joke seriously lol.
It's the biggest joke I have ever seen from this company. Someone will post a display in the ass kissers will post thank you for taking care of our customers thank you for getting behind this blah blah blah.
Im a co manager and our managers make us post on yammer for their managers to see. Also I think my managers have no confidence in us doing things correctly and want to see a picture of it.
Actually, enterprise corporate america is one of the most fair, focused and enjoyable environments to work in. Having worked for over three and a half decades in those environments I can say it has been one of the most enjoyable experiences of my life. That said, even a large conglomerate can lose sight of its own infrastructure. I am not talking of it's computer networks, logistics or it's fleet management...I am speaking of its people. An enterprise corporation is like a bolt of fabric and is only as strong as its weakest threads. Repeatedly mending a strong bolt of fabric with weaker cheaper thread only weakens the effectiveness of the cloth. Worse yet is leaving the it torn while you are adding more cloth onto the bolt with cloth made entirely of weaker thread. Even strong thread wears but can be mended easily if you do not allow it to wear through.
Example, an employee working for 5 years doing most of the production in a department while keeping customer first in mind but never getting full time status yet someone without relevant experience and a history of neglectful behavior being promoted to full time status and even department management. If this were only a singular event it would not require a second thought because in a normal enterprise environment such mistakes fix themselves as the person would either rise to the occasion and change or wash out. But what if the system were broken. What if it were a common event within the operational system and was even promoted among administrative oversight.
Groups that invest in such conglomerates have teams that take notice of these types of practices because when you are calculating annual investment tracking errors and determining fund allotments that hundredth of a percent quickly works out to a large number of shares in said conglomerate. Stretching the fabric too taught, mending with poor thread, extending with poor cloth...when it is all too common it is a huge red flag. You do not have to be a CIO to figure out that such investment groups will tend to pull back on the stick to help balance out a common fund.
My hope is that Kroger remembers it's roots and finds a balance. Continues to move ahead and remembers that employees are it's greatest resource to leverage against the rock of future growth. And the fulcrum on which the employees press against the future is their experience.
Actually, enterprise corporate america is one of the most fair, focused and enjoyable environments to work in. Having worked for over three and a half decades in those environments I can say it has been one of the most enjoyable experiences of my life. That said, even a large conglomerate can lose sight of its own infrastructure. I am not talking of it's computer networks, logistics or it's fleet management...I am speaking of its people. An enterprise corporation is like a bolt of fabric and is only as strong as its weakest threads. Repeatedly mending a strong bolt of fabric with weaker cheaper thread only weakens the effectiveness of the cloth. Worse yet is leaving the it torn while you are adding more cloth onto the bolt with cloth made entirely of weaker thread. Even strong thread wears but can be mended easily if you do not allow it to wear through.
Example, an employee working for 5 years doing most of the production in a department while keeping customer first in mind but never getting full time status yet someone without relevant experience and a history of neglectful behavior being promoted to full time status and even department management. If this were only a singular event it would not require a second thought because in a normal enterprise environment such mistakes fix themselves as the person would either rise to the occasion and change or wash out. But what if the system were broken. What if it were a common event within the operational system and was even promoted among administrative oversight.
Groups that invest in such conglomerates have teams that take notice of these types of practices because when you are calculating annual investment tracking errors and determining fund allotments that hundredth of a percent quickly works out to a large number of shares in said conglomerate. Stretching the fabric too taught, mending with poor thread, extending with poor cloth...when it is all too common it is a huge red flag. You do not have to be a CIO to figure out that such investment groups will tend to pull back on the stick to help balance out a common fund.
My hope is that Kroger remembers it's roots and finds a balance. Continues to move ahead and remembers that employees are it's greatest resource to leverage against the rock of future growth. And the fulcrum on which the employees press against the future is their experience.
Good luck and Godspeed.
So what is going on? Why is Kroger self-destructive? Why are they not taking care of good workers? Do they really not think of good employees as assets? Do they really think that they can lose them and still remain same Kroger? Did people in charge of Kroger lose their values? Or did current people in charge save enough money for themselves and they don't care what harm is their current politics gonna do to future of Kroger? Do they really think, that new hires without experience, and more importantly, without work ethics that made Kroger a food giant, can replace good workers and the company stays the same? Or do they not know what is going on at store levels?
People are leaving left and right, because there is not a shred of appreciation. Nobody in my area is able to become full time. No matter if the work is there and hours are there. They stop you just before you would meet the requirement for becoming full time. It's distasteful. We are not greedy, just want to make enough to live.
Example, an employee working for 5 years doing most of the production in a department while keeping customer first in mind but never getting full time status yet someone without relevant experience and a history of neglectful behavior being promoted to full time status
No one gets full time. Ever. If anything, hours get cut all around.
My hope is that Kroger remembers it's roots and finds a balance. Continues to move ahead and remembers that employees are it's greatest resource to leverage against the rock of future growth.
Nah, that's not a Kroger thing. As far as I can tell, employees are a most unfortunate expense that needs to be automated away.
