Since this tax bill every major competitor in my area has announced wage and for some, bonus increases. Not Kroger. Unrelated, we were the lowest starting wage in the industry. Lower than McDonalds even. When I started here 5 years ago that was not the case, we were 'competitive'. Then came the denying people experience pay, starting grown 40 year old men at 9.50 an hour. The "everybody is part time" mentality. How does this company expect to stay afloat with absolutely no talent acquisition. We had acquired one "good" worker in 2 years at the store I recently left. Simply can't keep anyone outside a few months. I wonder why? There is no way that these 300 pound just above store level ("I'm getting my own store someday or yesterday") managerial types, with their checkboxes and single subject devotion to where they are going to lunch, don't know that even in a simple job such as this TALENT MATTERS. Wal-Mart is figuring it out and adjusting over time as they lose market share to companies that traditionally have taken care of their employees. Kroger and Amazon namely. Now they are on the rise again. I've been training for another job, so my concern is more for my lifer friends I work with, but it is a shame to see all these corporate parasites and professional acronym makers soak up all the money in the company while the people that truly make Kroger a good company don't even get the crumbs. I would take satisfaction in the fact that Whole Foods is about to eat 1/3 of Kroger's Market share and drive these guys into unemployment. Thinking they would learn something and realize what their greed has done to human beings in their ward. But really if the entire company went belly up, they'd just get jobs at whole foods with "experience" and likely higher pay. Meanwhile my worker friends would lose a lifetime of loyalty to a company that used to take care of them a decade ago. Its like the sad slow motion of a car crash, the driver deserves to lose his car but all my friends are inside.
Improve, Kroger. There is little chance this board isn't monitored in the Cinci think tank. The answer isn't building restaurants and selling clothes. Its having the mac n cheese when the people want the mac n cheese. Pay the workers to fill it, give them enough hours so they help customers instead of anxiously walking to the next task.
Sorry for the book guys. A little frustrated here I guess.
I think nearly all Kroger stores have horrible, useless managers. Most of them couldn't even run their own department. Why they are in charge of a whole store sometimes, I don't know.
I honestly believe that co managers/store managers are so removed from the reality of what really happens in each department that they become useless to the entire process. I am the day time cook in the deli in my store. The number of times a co manager has asked me to do things like fill bakery tables or the cookie table or some other completely unrelated bakery task that I have had zero training for is ridiculous. They will come by as I am doing the billions of things I have to in the morning and talk to me like I am the savior of deli/bakery here to fill their tables and make icing flowers while still setting all my normal things on time...alone. And if I challenge it they act like it is MY fault that the task cant get done eventhough I have no control over the scheduling or what I get trained for. Ive learned that they just want to check the box and move on. I tell them we are working on it with no intention of ever doing it...but because I said so...they check it off their little list and move to the next person. Its a waste of time and it doesnt help get the tasks done. Kroger management is honestly the worst I have encountered so far in my life. They treat people like garbage and expect miracles from those same people all the while paying them near starvation wages.
It's like that every where too many stupid unqualified co managers that got to where they are because they either know someone up top or kiss ass to the store managers. Eventually all the stores will be run by clueless managers thus the demise of Kroger as we all known it
That's why they say they have "competitive" pay.
They mean: "you have to compete to have enough to barely scrape by."
I remember bonuses and what not. Then they got bitten by the "dumbass bug" and thought of a whole bunch of **** programs that ultimately give upper management like Dms bonuses.
We follow these programs because we HAVE to. If we don't like it, well....management can help you fill out resignation paperwork.
This is how it seems to me. We just our asses, and our "rewards" are more work, less hours, and being bitched at.
