So here's a fun thing I heard from a department head yesterday. Lately my pickup department has been getting more and more people and our schedules have been suffering, it's mostly just 4 or 6 hour shifts. Barely any 8 hour shifts anymore, Everytime I asked about it I was told oh next week we'll have more 8 hour shifts available but it never happened. So I finally asked the department head and this was the response. Corporate wants us to have 6 hour shifts and then have managers/department heads ask their employees to stay 2 extra hours everyday. Now I couldn't for the life of me figure out why. It's not like they're very happy about overtime and if I want 40 hours I'd have to work 6 days with 6 hours of pay to hit 40. But if I'm asked to stay everyday and say I agree what happens on day 6? I'd already be at 40 hours on day 5, and it's not like they allow overtime if they can help it. So the only thing I could think of for this stupid decision to not have 8 hour shifts is they want to try and eliminate 40 hour work weeks therefore paying the us less and saving on the bottom dollar.
This is another corporate tactic to keep people at minimum wage and encourage people to quit. Kroger is making it so people can't earn sustainable pay checks. It's forcing them to quit so they can bring on more short term minimum wage help. Rather than long term employees that earn decent wages. Kroger has made it clear with their hour games that they don't want long term help or employees long term. Kroger isn't a f*uc*ken career any more it's a wage game to deter people from actually working.
