What's the reason you show up for work? What are things that still inspire you and make you push forward even when it's hard? For me it's my team and my manager who is a true mentor, I try to ignore everything else that's not so good and things that make me depressed and sad...
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The only reason I still work there is because of the tuition reimbursement, and the stipulation that you have to stay there for a year after you receive the final tuition reimbursement.
3k a year isn't too bad, and between that and financial aid nothing is coming out of pocket anymore. I'll ride this gravy train for as long as I can, I'm low enough on the totem pole that I am not worried about being laid off since the demographic around here is older people who somewhat value the employees.
Hey Guys,
I've worked at Kroger for more than Five Years now and thankfully I am currently still employed there. Thanks to Kroger I got my first car, my HSE Diploma and Dentures for my mouth. Thanks to Kroger now I work mornings Thankfully. I love my Sore manager and my Supervisors as well, their just great leaders. Sadly, it's true, they treat all employees like cogs in a Machine. Rodney for God sakes makes more 20 million and others under him celebrate with millions of dollars while we rot on 30 to 40 thousand a year, I mean, Come on America! Their laughing at us from their Mansions and their vacations around the world. Evil and Selfish is what those Vampires seem like to me. I Hope Al Mighty Creator pulls the plug on them for the level of Greed their swimming in. How selfish and depressing as it is to even think about the cruel things they continue to get away with year after year without Ever getting punished by the Hands of Justice. Sorry guys, love you all, I'm just being realistic here.
Your back will surely get stabbed, and more than once.
That’s a question that’s hard to answer because of the disparity we have in the different contracts . For me personally I have been around long enough that my pay is good.. I am not rich but comfortable... full disclosure my wife also works and makes more than I do and our kids are grown and out of the house... but what keeps me there is the cost of our insurance..... I have a place I could leave to work for tomorrow and get a wage boost of 5 an hour... but I would have to pay way more than the $60 I pay now... but I did hear there is a division that dropped insurance for spouses... I don’t know what the specifics were.. I think it was the atlanta division... if they try that here in Phoenix... we will strike... no doubt... hope you are listening Cincinnati... WE WILL STRIKE in Phoenix if you try to touch our insurance... in 2003 you begged us to drop the wages for anyone hired after 2004 and help pay for a portion of our insurance... and we approved that contract....we helped set you up for never before realized profits for 12 years... don’t test our resolve by stabbing us in the back
Stopped working for this company after 3 contract negotiations. They don't care about their employees!!! This is a Soul S—ing company to work for!! No leadership of people!!! Supervisors don't want to communicate or even be cordial!! Loved the job and the money. Not the environment, culture or expectations that the human body is a Robot!!! F— all Kroger companies!! I no longer spend any money at any of their establishments!!! One of the worst companies too work for. 9 years flushed down the toilet because of their socialist work environment!!! Do NOT WORK FOR THIS COMPANY OR ANY AFFILIATE!!
I will leave after this hoopla.
Too much drama.
They will continue to cut.
I like my coworkers, but after this travesty, I'm trying to get out as fast as possible. I've been suspicious of how the company is operating for years, and while I've been casually looking around at other possibilities for a while, I'm now actively looking for something else. I show up for my paycheck, and do my job so I can get it, but my personal ethics won't let me remain after this. If I could afford to be out of work for a few weeks, I would have turned in my notice after it was clear what they were doing.
It's a combination of the customers and the people I work with is what keeps me working at Kroger. Even when I get told on a daily bases from some the self check outs are taking someones job. The on going joke me and my co wokers have is we are robots.
There needs to be a page where associates can post all the mistreatment they recieve at Kroger stores. UPLIFT THAT!
Noone goes to work for customers. Once people realize they only work for a paycheck they will understand the toxic environment of Kroger and go somewhere else.
Working at Kroger is not always easy. You put your heart and soul into trying to do a good job, and you do not get thanked for working on a Holiday when you could be with family, or coming in on your day off because of short staff.
I stay at Kroger for the customers. Yes the store would carry on without me, and the customers would most likely forget all abput me when I was gone. But for the brief time I get to interact with the customers is worth it.
I would like better pay so I wouldn't have to go on welfare just to be able to afford housing, but like all the other jobs I have had in my life, it is what it is.