Main complaints are about work/life balance (most folks say there is none), tired of working long hours/nights/weekends/holidays. One person wrote that his wife told him "it's our marriage or Kroger" and he "wisely chose" his marriage. It's an eye=opener for sure!
**** I lived this. I was waking up and putting a gun to my head in the morning. I pulled the trigger dry a few times to see if I could do it. Wife caught me and made me go to therapy, therapy made me realize Kroger was a toxin poisoning my life.
I work outside now and enjoy it alot.
I got a few buddies still where I was at. I feel like someone at Kroger's is going to snap or they gonna have to cover up a few suicides in the coming years.
After seeing the stuff covered up while I was there, they can and most likely will.
**** I lived this. I was waking up and putting a gun to my head in the morning. I pulled the trigger dry a few times to see if I could do it. Wife caught me and made me go to therapy, therapy made me realize Kroger was a toxin poisoning my life.
I work outside now and enjoy it alot.
I got a few buddies still where I was at. I feel like someone at Kroger's is going to snap or they gonna have to cover up a few suicides in the coming years.
After seeing the stuff covered up while I was there, they can and most likely will.
I'm assuming your post is legit.
I was a salaried manager for Walmart for several years, been gone for three. Everything you wrote I can relate to. As a retail manager, if you're not a heartless scum bag when you start, they'll make you into one----or hustle you out. Saw that happen many times.
**** I lived this. I was waking up and putting a gun to my head in the morning. I pulled the trigger dry a few times to see if I could do it.
I'm assuming your a bad shot and missed your head
Assuming you don't know much about guns. the trigger was pulled dry(no bullets). I ended up not doing it cause someone use to say to me "look if your going to kill yourself, what's one more day, just do it tomorrow". By the time I had everything ready, notes written, will made, my "backup" (a noose and tested the weight to make sure it could catch a limp body dead falling without breaking), I ended up getting so low and didn't give a **** anymore I just quit. Everytime I was thinking very strongly about suicide, that guys words just kinda popped up.
**** I lived this. I was waking up and putting a gun to my head in the morning. I pulled the trigger dry a few times to see if I could do it. Wife caught me and made me go to therapy, therapy made me realize Kroger was a toxin poisoning my life.
I work outside now and enjoy it alot.
I got a few buddies still where I was at. I feel like someone at Kroger's is going to snap or they gonna have to cover up a few suicides in the coming years.
After seeing the stuff covered up while I was there, they can and most likely will.
I'm assuming your post is legit.
I was a salaried manager for Walmart for several years, been gone for three. Everything you wrote I can relate to. As a retail manager, if you're not a heartless scum bag when you start, they'll make you into one----or hustle you out. Saw that happen many times.
I too am much happier away from that sh!t show.
No troll. I still get on here and read this website even after quiting as part of a morning routine. I like when something happens that gets like 4 threads going at once asking the same questions.
I still continue to have issues over the entire situation. The days are getting easier, but, the fact they are still doing what they are doing is sickening. I wish I could put them out of business.
Kroger managers are often forced to work whole days straight, so yes, a lot of them are not very happy with the company.
....that's what they strived for. Your so-called "over achievers". No one forced them into it. I'm sure they saw all the possible money that could be made, and then they soon realized that they'd be at work majority of the time instead of being able to enjoy that money. That's why I never wanna move up from a night stocker. Its sorta a sweet spot between cold and hot. Cold being a bagger and hot being a manager.
OK this begs the question....what is Kroger telling these managers when they go to training? It seems a lot of the complaints are about work/life balance. Similar to what they don't tell us hourly employees about what it is REALLY like to work at Kroger, not just the slick printed recruiting materials they have on display in the store
What they tell you when you go through training is you will work five days a week and ten hour days. If you work a designated holiday, you will get an extra day off in one week. They make it sound really good when your in training. My experience is your lucky to get one day off a week. A twelve hour day is short. I would love to see the corporate people have to work in a busy Kroger store and actually do all the stuff they expect from managers. You never get told what your doing right and good job. You have multiple visits from different people just telling you what your doing wrong. I've seen managers reduced to tears because their basically told their **** and constantly have their jobs threatened by corporate.
The company keeps investing in all this new technology with warehouses and stuff but have too many "old school" people in corporate positions. By old school I mean they expect you to give your whole life to the company. You have a day off and your wife is having her ultrasound, well so and so bigshot is coming to visit and you better be there. So you miss the ultrasound because you need the damn job with a new baby on the way, your wife is pissed, and so and so doesn't come to visit. It's just another false alarm to raise your already high stress level.
I expect them to get sued at some point. When your salaried and exempt and most of your time is spent doing non manager hourly things because they keep cutting labor hours and someone has to do it, I'm surprised there hasn't been a lawsuit yet. All I can say is a lot of managers are looking for new jobs and will be leaving the company. If your not in management with this company already, do yourself a favor and stay far away.
There's a lot of managers in Cincy district 1 who are on their way out, getting other jobs... No wonder they are constantly showing a new batch of "Leadership Essentials" trainees month after month.
One of my favorite managers made the mistake of telling the store manager "I'm not sure that's realistic, how about this or that instead?"
So he went out of his way to block her promotion, told her she needed to transfer in order to gain more experience, and then blocked her transfer for six months.
The other part is that Kroger is the fourth worst paying corporation in the US. If you aren't dumb, you will make more money anywhere else. Target's starting pay is $13, or about two dollars less than management here. Hell, you take a class or two and get your CompTIA A+, and starting pay will be $16-17.
Lots of people are jumping ship, and it's a smart move.
So I went on to read reviews and also on other job websites. I believe the recent one, two, and maybe three stars reviews. Found quite a few five star which I don't believe at all. Also saw several where someone with a certain job and area would leave a bad review about working for Kroger's. Right after that would be a review with the same job and area with a five star review. Is someone from corporate going on and trying to negate honest reviews and trying to up the rating on these sites?
Turnover of co-managers is so high in my area that they've stopped putting their portraits in the foyer. Two at a nearby store quit on a spot when a corporate person came storming in threatening everyone's jobs. They wonder why nobody is taking manager jobs anymore.
