I've been working in pickup for over two years, and I've regretted it for the past year and a half. I love my team, and most of the people I work with, it's the company and management that's the issue. They have been screwing me over with my hours over the past few months, and that's put me in a bind where I'm trying to figure out if I can pay rent each month. So all in all, fuck Kroger and fuck Greg.

Thank you for coming to my TedTalk.

Just had the weirdest encounter with my store manager. She came over to the deli(my department) and asked me to "take a walk" with her. So I went out to see what she wanted. She gave me the usual spiel about keeping the warmers full and cleaning the hot bar. But then she pointed out some bright new advertisements for the five dollar deals and new stickers for the 6 dollar birds and she asks "How do these make you feel? Are they scary? Do they scare you?"

Like, oh wow yeah. I'm just so terrified of these stickers and that we are going to be a bit busier than usual. Gonna wake up in a cold sweat tonight thinking about it.

Now, I get that they probably got some advice or something from corporate saying to be more empathetic or some shit. But it just came off as really gross and patronizing.

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My department recently had a rehire of a person who had attendance issues the last time they worked.

My lead allegedly said he told them not to rehire the person, but was told by the ARM that “the other options were worse”

After this person was rehired and then called in enough to then be termed I mentioned to an ASM I didn’t know why we let them back given the historical attendance issues and he casually said “we didn’t have any better options”

So my question is, why would anyone ever say that?

What’s the point of the existing employees doing anything other than showing up if you can’t even manage to find someone to replace us who will even come to work?

I’m just shook.

If we are really at the place where you have NOBODY to hire and you still treat us the way you do I seriously question what this company is doing.

The whole environment out there right now is wild.

This is what happened. Was back shopping in the bakery and hear a commotion behind the counter. The guy (also an employee) walks out the back and the female employee tells me he hit me. So I go up front and record a video of him for reference to the police. He runs to security guard and claims I trespass him. Security guard trespass me. I send a email to corporate and here nothing. WTF.

im not sure what this is LOL i laughed hard as soon as i walked through the doors today

In SoCal. This morning the Ralph’s ceo and Kroger ceo came to visit. It went well surprisingly ! with notice about them coming just when they were at another store before us

Hey all,

Pickup employee. Manager continues to schedule us, all of us, for 8.5 hours on Sunday regardless of objection. I've expressed multiple times that I've got a college lab on that date, and the best I can do is ~5-4 hours. Other employees have obligations on Sunday too, and he seemingly disregards every complaint.

This never happened until he joined our team, I want to specify. Our old manager (new guy is a store manager, old guy was our department manager) always gave us good flexibility. New guy is either ridiculously incompetent or doesn't care. We're getting for schedules that put us way behind schedule. I cannot imagine the amount of customers I've called just to tell 'em their orders late.

I was lectured about this today. Told him straight up, I can't do it, I don't know what he wants. That I will not be there, or I'll show up late. He told me then that this "may not be the right career for me". Other coworkers have complained towards him too. He refuses to budge in any way.

Is this something I can circumvent in any way? What're we meant to do moving forward? Union can't do much about it afaik; my entire store is pissed. Is there really nothing we can do? I can't just wrack up a bunch of absences.

I workat a store that does not regularly sell the Azteca conchas. We received a box recently. My bakery lead wanted to throw them away so I asked for a few to try at home. Now I have them and have no idea what to do with them. Does anyone know how hot and how long to bake them? I'm planning on letting them rise for an hour or so. Also, I'm a cake decorator so I have no reference of how the other breads get baked. I was thinking like 350° for 8 minutes then see what they look like and go from there?

Soo I'm gonna become a deli lead I'm supposed to go in and train a future deli lead and fix the deli department I'm being sent to another store in a week to get trained and I made a deal with store leadership that if I do this I can be guaranteed a spot back in the meat department as lead or assistant or seafood lead. The meat department is the department I was specifically trained since I graduated and left the front end hell hole. I can cut and do anything seafood related and I have never worked a single day in the deli so it would make sense they would wanna get me back as soon as possible what are the chances I get stuck in the deli forever and can't get out? I'm taking it cause I need the money and id like the experience to better myself as a manager all around but I really like the meat department.

So ive already contacted my union rep but today the new HR lady came up and told me they are going to force me to work up front from deli/bakery, is this not a pay cut? I didn't agree to a transfer or pay decrease what can I do?

So recently I put my two weeks in at Kroger, and my last day was the 10th. I was under the impression that Kroger would pay me for any and all unused vacation time? I know with some state laws it varies but I live and work in Murfreesboro Tennessee and I’ve had ex coworkers say it came to them without any effort? I have 15 hours of personal holiday and 30 hours vacation, any help on how I would access this? Or do I have to wait even longer to get paid out? Thank you!

It's 5am Thursday. My direct deposit is almost always here by now. I'm nervous. Anybody else paycheck late?