Any other stores have an issue with employees taking excessively long breaks and lunches? Like 20% of the people we send to break or lunch this **** happens:
>takes five minutes to "get ready" >goes to the bathroom >clocks out >takes 37 minute lunch/22 minute break because "muh seven minute rule" that isn't even a thing >clocks back in >oh man gotta use the bathroom again >comes back ten minutes later >complains when their break/lunch is a few minutes late
The department head is frustrated, but there's not much he can do because he tells one person not to do it, and they either ignore him after a few weeks, or complain about the ten other people, *including the department backup*, doing the same thing. Store management doesn't give a damn, probably too afraid of pissing off Karen who has a speed-dial to union reps. Meanwhile all us employees who take breaks and lunches *as we're supposed to* are pissed about the unfair advantages, but we don't want to start doing it in case upper management starts cracking down on time theft big time (which IMO is way overdue).
Any other stores have an issue with employees taking excessively long breaks and lunches? Like 20% of the people we send to break or lunch this **** happens:
>takes five minutes to "get ready" >goes to the bathroom >clocks out >takes 37 minute lunch/22 minute break because "muh seven minute rule" that isn't even a thing >clocks back in >oh man gotta use the bathroom again >comes back ten minutes later >complains when their break/lunch is a few minutes late
The department head is frustrated, but there's not much he can do because he tells one person not to do it, and they either ignore him after a few weeks, or complain about the ten other people, *including the department backup*, doing the same thing. Store management doesn't give a damn, probably too afraid of pissing off Karen who has a speed-dial to union reps. Meanwhile all us employees who take breaks and lunches *as we're supposed to* are pissed about the unfair advantages, but we don't want to start doing it in case upper management starts cracking down on time theft big time (which IMO is way overdue).
Yeah i take a sh!t sometimes before i go to break i dont clock out for them either. gives me more time to play fortnite and yeah the seven minute rule is a thing. FAIL for you not knowing that
I stopped clocking out & back in for breaks after roughly my first six months and now it's years later. I don't know anybody of see anybody that actually clocks out and in for breaks and I've worked at multiple locations. Kroger very loosely applies its rules and selectively too, so while I try to time my breaks, I know others don't. It was REALLY bad at one of my other stores where several employees took multiple smoke breaks in addition to their regular full break. The time theft happens all over and honestly it's just something you have to accept. It's not gonna change when Kroger is afraid to fire anybody when Kroger can't hire people due to the miserably low starting wages/pitiful raises.
Sounds familiar. I work with several people that disappear for like 40 minutes every day for a so called 10 minute break.
its 15 minute breaks... jesus you don't even know that! My 15's usually last 30 though. You should stop crying about it and just join in as well. Place pays its workers poorly so make up for it
ok, going to the bathroom is a thing and you are allowed to do it afaik, and that does not count as a break, even if your supervisor says to use your break on it
the 7 minute rule is also a thing afaik but correct me if i'm wrong
