If I posted what I really thought, one of you jerks would probably report me to the FBI.
I can't decide if I'd prefer for Kroger to Fresh and Easy itself or for Amazon to eat it alive.
Just grab the information. Get a tinyurl to the article. Write down the url in sharpie on bathroom walls inside of Kroger's.
Or write it on paper or cards and hand it out. Before I quit I use to leave papers in the break room with this kind of information on it.
Loved seeing the lost productivity. Everyone was as angry as they should be for a few days and they don't let go of that resentment, it follows into their work.
'This year's median employee made $24,912 at Kroger, an 18 percent increase over last year. McMullen's pay was 483 times that median employee's, according to Kroger's filing. That's also an improvement over last year's CEO pay ratio of 547 times the median employee."
So, relatively speaking, it sounds like more money is being divided up among us, while big wig bonuses are getting slightly less apalling... maybe there's hope this trend will keep moving in our favor?
If I posted what I really thought, one of you jerks would probably report me to the FBI.
I can't decide if I'd prefer for Kroger to Fresh and Easy itself or for Amazon to eat it alive.
Just grab the information. Get a tinyurl to the article. Write down the url in sharpie on bathroom walls inside of Kroger's.
Or write it on paper or cards and hand it out. Before I quit I use to leave papers in the break room with this kind of information on it.
Loved seeing the lost productivity. Everyone was as angry as they should be for a few days and they don't let go of that resentment, it follows into their work.
I like your write it on paper suggestion im gonna start doing that for a few days
That's a fact! Hours are cut year after year and it will continue to get worse, for us, the lowly workers. They're currently testing having only department heads/leads working during the day, with all stocking, for all departments done overnight, with a Kroger "night" manager & a skeleton crew, of course. I've been told this has been a reality in the Nashville division, for awhile now.
IDK if you all experienced this a couple years ago but at my store (and probably division) they drastically cut our hours, quite suddenly, saying that we had supposedly been given too many hours for a long time. Yeah yeah...typical excuse to trim expenses.
Stock market is at an alltime high and kroger stock used to be 42 a share. Rodney is a loser.
His moms a entitled bitch too. She use to come into our store and demand we grind beef and porlk together. Inconveniencing all other customers and shutting down the grinder for a hour or two.
I use to refuse as it was against against company policy and she no joke used the "do you know who I am". I went "obviously important enough to want a manager". She huffed, I went and got the manager and she got what she wanted.
I got a short fuse for the "do you know who I am" and I had my two week notice in already. So was talking to a employee loud enough for her to hear, saying **** like "if we treated every customer like this maybe we wouldn't be tanking as a company under our poor leadership".
To this day, it's the only thing at Kroger's I did that I was ever proud of.
The amount of bonus money being paid out at top is sickening. To receive that kind of money while you have employees on food stamps really shows where we are as a society. I retired from the Army after 26 years of service so I have a retirement, I don't feel the pain like others. I hear the complaints about overtime, complaining if you take a hour because you are short staffed, hours being cut, short-cuts taken to get the job done. Come on Kroger pay a livable wage then brag about profits!
If Kroger paid a livable wage maybe people wouldnt call out every single day and/or just not show up to work. Kroger would get good workers because they get paid enough to live and they would be more willing to do their jobs well. If you want good employees you have to pay for that or they arent going to want to work hard and will quit as soon as they get a better job that pays them more. Kroger has engh money to pay their employees a living wage but they like other retail businesses are cheap and the corporate people will die if dont get bigger bonuses every year.
It's appalling. Half our store employees (around 60 people) are either on food stamps or WIC vouchers. Is it that way in your store too?
Dont know about half, but many are. However, they are the ones constantly not showing up, because too much work will cost them food stamps. In other words, laziness.
It's appalling. Half our store employees (around 60 people) are either on food stamps or WIC vouchers. Is it that way in your store too?
Dont know about half, but many are. However, they are the ones constantly not showing up, because too much work will cost them food stamps. In other words, laziness.
So when a rich guy plays the system, moves millions offshore so he doesn't have to pay his fair share, he is smart. But if a poor food stamp working man has to leave hours early so he can get more money in foodstamps than cash if he worked his health away, he is lazy.
I don't have food stamps or any government aid. But I'll take 1000 food stamp recipients over one ceo any day.
The food stamps are cheaper and more altruistic than a multimillion dollar tax payer funded paycheck.
You'd also be wise to remember your alot closer to food stamps than wealth.
I'm fine with CEOs living a comfortable lifestyle and being well compensated, otherwise there would be no incentives to take on the responsibility of running a multi-million dollar company.
I think however most people would agree that there's a difference in being well compensated and excessive greed. Now sure, the term "excessive greed" is subjective. I get that. I think though more people in the country than not would say that it is excessive greed on the part of the CEO and the higher-ups when the company is employing associates that have to apply for government assistance or seek out Kroger's Helping Hands program for financial help. This is not good for the associates and it's not good for the customers, either. Associates that have financial worries on their minds, exhaustion from working a job on the side to make ends meet and so forth aren't going to be working at their best and that means fewer items on the shelf for customers to buy and not as friendly/helpful customer service. Unsatisfied customers shop elsewhere. Unhappy customers post negative comments on social media which spreads. This can have a negative impact on the company's bottom line and the CEO gets hit with that directly.
The reverse is also true, though. A well compensated CEO that also compensates associates well will in turn see fuller stores (in terms of product and customers) and positive social media coverage. More business generated by the store means more money for everyone, CEO and associates included, and the customer is far more likely to leave highly satisfied, ready to return in the near future to give the company more business.
Makes a lot more sense in the long run than bleeding the company dry for short term enrichment.
Plus, it's just the right thing to do. You take care of the people that take care of you.
I'm fine with CEOs living a comfortable lifestyle and being well compensated, otherwise there would be no incentives to take on the responsibility of running a multi-million dollar company.
I think however most people would agree that there's a difference in being well compensated and excessive greed. Now sure, the term "excessive greed" is subjective. I get that. I think though more people in the country than not would say that it is excessive greed on the part of the CEO and the higher-ups when the company is employing associates that have to apply for government assistance or seek out Kroger's Helping Hands program for financial help. This is not good for the associates and it's not good for the customers, either. Associates that have financial worries on their minds, exhaustion from working a job on the side to make ends meet and so forth aren't going to be working at their best and that means fewer items on the shelf for customers to buy and not as friendly/helpful customer service. Unsatisfied customers shop elsewhere. Unhappy customers post negative comments on social media which spreads. This can have a negative impact on the company's bottom line and the CEO gets hit with that directly.
The reverse is also true, though. A well compensated CEO that also compensates associates well will in turn see fuller stores (in terms of product and customers) and positive social media coverage. More business generated by the store means more money for everyone, CEO and associates included, and the customer is far more likely to leave highly satisfied, ready to return in the near future to give the company more business.
Makes a lot more sense in the long run than bleeding the company dry for short term enrichment.
Plus, it's just the right thing to do. You take care of the people that take care of you.
Thank you very much for a great post!! You've expressed it so well. A good balance is needed between company success and over-the-top pure greed. I hope Rodney reads this!
Thanks. Unfortunately it doesn't matter whether Rodney ever reads it or not. If he truly cared about associates and customers alike as well as the future of Kroger beyond his tenure, then I wouldn't have needed to write that post. He has demonstrated that all he cares about is maximizing profits in order to satisfy shareholders so that Kroger stock goes up and in turn makes him more money through stock appreciation and salary increases plus bonuses, like most other CEOs and corporate execs do in the country.
Although if you compare the stock price of Kroger to that of Walmart/Target/Amazon, one might question how much longer Rodney has, especially in light of how much it has declined from being $40 a share back in Dec 2015 to its current close of $25.28. Not that it matters. Rodney has been so well compensated since he took over that even if he was replaced tomorrow it's a safe bet he'll be living comfortably for the rest of his life.
