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So I stumbled across this website, and frankly, I'm baffled. I work for Kroger's, and I love it. I used to work at McDonald's, it was hell. You're complaining because you start out at entry level wages and then, oh no, you have to work there for 5 years or so to top out? How horrible! Except not really. At McDonald's you don'to get raises, you get treated like an animal. No union, nothing.  

Seriously, what planet are you people from?  There are so few jobs, let alone jobs that ACTUALLY GIVE YOU SCHEDULED RAISES. Not to mention, at the Kroger where I work at least, these raises aren't even based on your preformance, they're based on hours worked. You work 200 hours, you get a raise, and so on and so forth. 

Ridiculous. 

I have yet yet to meet anyone rude or incompetent at my store, I have in fact met sevreal of the best managers I have ever had the pleasure of working with. Just because your store sucks or you have a ****ty manager doesn't mean that as a whole Kroger's sucks. 

Honestly, try working at McDonald's for a few months and you will be begging for your job at Kroger's back.



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As I've said before, there are worse jobs out there, and it's not just McDonald's.

This forum, however, is a good place to vent frustration and share experiences, MAYBE even get some advice from others when things are out of hand. Each store is different and some literally sound like a living Hell. There are a lot of part-timers at Kroger that can't ever get to full-time in their store, so they won't ever get more than about $11-$12/hr, even after 5 years.

10-20 hours a week listening to a manager with a God complex screaming 'faster! faster! and stop to talk to every customer too! condition! key retailing!'... that can really eat your soul. My store gave me full-time in 3 months, so I'm lucky in that respect. I feel the pain of others, probably working at smaller, low-budget stores, that can never get anything no matter how hard they try.

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My friend that I worked with was there for 6 years and is only being paid $8.50, some stores are extremely unfair to their employees.

And this job is absolutely horrible, you cannot be grateful for a job that makes you miserable. Help a customer and you get in trouble for messing around on the clock, don't acknowledge customers and you get in trouble for not exercising customer service.

There is no way to do everything at 100%. Kroger is run on such a broken system that it does not help anyone. We cannot give 1 hour to condition a department that has holes in it and loads of product in the cooler. Key retailing is awful.

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You obviously just worked at a bad McDonalds restaurant that didn't care about its employees.

See what I did there TC? Stop being an idiot.



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Anonymous wrote:

So I stumbled across this website, and frankly, I'm baffled. I work for Kroger's, and I love it. I used to work at McDonald's, it was hell. You're complaining because you start out at entry level wages and then, oh no, you have to work there for 5 years or so to top out? How horrible! Except not really. At McDonald's you don'to get raises, you get treated like an animal. No union, nothing.  

Seriously, what planet are you people from?  There are so few jobs, let alone jobs that ACTUALLY GIVE YOU SCHEDULED RAISES. Not to mention, at the Kroger where I work at least, these raises aren't even based on your preformance, they're based on hours worked. You work 200 hours, you get a raise, and so on and so forth. 

Ridiculous. 

I have yet yet to meet anyone rude or incompetent at my store, I have in fact met sevreal of the best managers I have ever had the pleasure of working with. Just because your store sucks or you have a ****ty manager doesn't mean that as a whole Kroger's sucks. 

Honestly, try working at McDonald's for a few months and you will be begging for your job at Kroger's back.


 

You're doing so well that you can't even spell the proper name of your employer: Kroger.

 

Scheduled raises after 200 hours of work? Sir, we've moved on to a new millennium. Other retailers start their lowly employees a few bucks more than what you will top off in five years' time. And it doesn't require being full-time.

 

By the way, you are the exception, not the standard. I myself have ok and decent managers, but the majority of it is that management and up is pathetic. Just because your store's management is honky-dorey doesn't mean that Kroger as a whole is an exceptional place to be.

 

Raises that aren't based on performance is glorious? Haha, typical union puppet. You get to sit on your ass and pass off the work to other people, yet demand to be paid more because you've been there longer? If that isn't a typical middle school problem, then I don't know what is.

 

If you've done your research, PLENTY of other jobs give scheduled raises. It's just that they're very selective and value their employees so much that there aren't much positions open for them. But guess what? Kroger's turnover rate is so high that they're always hiring.

 

And about that union... you mean to tell me that I can have the privilege of sharing my paycheck with a fat cat? And in exchange, they'll provide me rights that are secured already by an Act of Congress? Hot damn, I can start a business like that and be rich in a month.

You're also telling me that an entity who can restrict a company's ability to issue wage hikes properly and where deserved (aka: union) is a god-send? Dear Lord... WHAT PLANET ARE YOU FROM?!?!?!?!?

 

There's a reason why the most successful companies that aren't struggling to turn a profit don't have unions.



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Anonymous wrote:

So I stumbled across this website, and frankly, I'm baffled. I work for Kroger's, and I love it. I used to work at McDonald's, it was hell. You're complaining because you start out at entry level wages and then, oh no, you have to work there for 5 years or so to top out? How horrible! Except not really. At McDonald's you don'to get raises, you get treated like an animal. No union, nothing.  

Seriously, what planet are you people from?  There are so few jobs, let alone jobs that ACTUALLY GIVE YOU SCHEDULED RAISES. Not to mention, at the Kroger where I work at least, these raises aren't even based on your preformance, they're based on hours worked. You work 200 hours, you get a raise, and so on and so forth. 

Ridiculous. 

I have yet yet to meet anyone rude or incompetent at my store, I have in fact met sevreal of the best managers I have ever had the pleasure of working with. Just because your store sucks or you have a ****ty manager doesn't mean that as a whole Kroger's sucks. 

Honestly, try working at McDonald's for a few months and you will be begging for your job at Kroger's back.


 

there's a lot that I could say to you, but this is what I finally decided:

I can not feel comfortable, welcomed or become emotionally invested in a company that does not seem to care for me as an individual or an employee.
My management over me has even gone so far as to tell me "You could leave and we would be okay with that."
Basically saying, "If you leave, we can find some high school schmuck to do what you do."

Let's ignore the fact that management at my store has their head up their asses, micromanages so often that you need NASA to help you list all of your duties, delegates Front End duties irresponsibly and expects one person to do the work of three people, on average.

Kroger has yet to show me, in any way, that I should become emotionally invested in my work. 
And, in fact, if I am correct, our Union contracts, or at least the way Kroger policy is set up, says that courtesy clerks don't even GET raises.
Where did you get that idea of hours worked based on raises? That's pretty funny. You must be thinking of Deli or Bakery or Produce. Front End doesn't work that way.

And do not get me started on Que-Vision or e-schedule or ELMS. This is a company that prefers the dollar over the employee and makes it clear that this is how they feel.
Pressure is EVERYWHERE and not just the normal pressures you would find in any other job such as McDonalds. This is a company where you could easily be written up for something that was caused by something else, where the company would be aware of that, and yet you could still find a write-up or suspension as a result.

Bottom line, as long as my management and Kroger as a whole does not show me that I am important, why should I care about working for them? It's a job. Nothing else, nothing less, and soon as I can get out of there, I am gone. Screw them. 



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Anonymous wrote:

So I stumbled across this website, and frankly, I'm baffled. I work for Kroger's, and I love it. I used to work at McDonald's, it was hell. You're complaining because you start out at entry level wages and then, oh no, you have to work there for 5 years or so to top out? How horrible! Except not really. At McDonald's you don'to get raises, you get treated like an animal. No union, nothing.  

Seriously, what planet are you people from?  There are so few jobs, let alone jobs that ACTUALLY GIVE YOU SCHEDULED RAISES. Not to mention, at the Kroger where I work at least, these raises aren't even based on your preformance, they're based on hours worked. You work 200 hours, you get a raise, and so on and so forth. 

Ridiculous. 

I have yet yet to meet anyone rude or incompetent at my store, I have in fact met sevreal of the best managers I have ever had the pleasure of working with. Just because your store sucks or you have a ****ty manager doesn't mean that as a whole Kroger's sucks. 

Honestly, try working at McDonald's for a few months and you will be begging for your job at Kroger's back.


 

You're doing so well that you can't even spell the proper name of your employer: Kroger.

 

Scheduled raises after 200 hours of work? Sir, we've moved on to a new millennium. Other retailers start their lowly employees a few bucks more than what you will top off in five years' time. And it doesn't require being full-time.

 

By the way, you are the exception, not the standard. I myself have ok and decent managers, but the majority of it is that management and up is pathetic. Just because your store's management is honky-dorey doesn't mean that Kroger as a whole is an exceptional place to be.

 

Raises that aren't based on performance is glorious? Haha, typical union puppet. You get to sit on your ass and pass off the work to other people, yet demand to be paid more because you've been there longer? If that isn't a typical middle school problem, then I don't know what is.

 

If you've done your research, PLENTY of other jobs give scheduled raises. It's just that they're very selective and value their employees so much that there aren't much positions open for them. But guess what? Kroger's turnover rate is so high that they're always hiring.

 

And about that union... you mean to tell me that I can have the privilege of sharing my paycheck with a fat cat? And in exchange, they'll provide me rights that are secured already by an Act of Congress? Hot damn, I can start a business like that and be rich in a month.

You're also telling me that an entity who can restrict a company's ability to issue wage hikes properly and where deserved (aka: union) is a god-send? Dear Lord... WHAT PLANET ARE YOU FROM?!?!?!?!?

 

There's a reason why the most successful companies that aren't struggling to turn a profit don't have unions.


 

 I think you just wrote the Great American Novel, NW. :)

 

I for one think it's sickening how many employees at my store are bragging about being in the union. You'd think these people had signed a personal agreement with God Himself insulating them from write-ups. The biggest problem, in my opinion, is that most full timers at my store should have never gotten it in the first place. They'll be unavailable on weekends, they'll be doing busy work like dusting meat trays (I **** you not), and then they turn around and say anyone working a second job outside of Kroger is just disloyal and too lazy to get full time status. XD



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So I stumbled across this website, and frankly, I'm baffled. I work for Kroger's, and I love it. I used to work at McDonald's, it was hell. You're complaining because you start out at entry level wages and then, oh no, you have to work there for 5 years or so to top out? How horrible! Except not really. At McDonald's you don'to get raises, you get treated like an animal. No union, nothing.  

Seriously, what planet are you people from?  There are so few jobs, let alone jobs that ACTUALLY GIVE YOU SCHEDULED RAISES. Not to mention, at the Kroger where I work at least, these raises aren't even based on your preformance, they're based on hours worked. You work 200 hours, you get a raise, and so on and so forth. 

Ridiculous. 

I have yet yet to meet anyone rude or incompetent at my store, I have in fact met sevreal of the best managers I have ever had the pleasure of working with. Just because your store sucks or you have a ****ty manager doesn't mean that as a whole Kroger's sucks. 

Honestly, try working at McDonald's for a few months and you will be begging for your job at Kroger's back.


 

You're doing so well that you can't even spell the proper name of your employer: Kroger.

 

Scheduled raises after 200 hours of work? Sir, we've moved on to a new millennium. Other retailers start their lowly employees a few bucks more than what you will top off in five years' time. And it doesn't require being full-time.

 

By the way, you are the exception, not the standard. I myself have ok and decent managers, but the majority of it is that management and up is pathetic. Just because your store's management is honky-dorey doesn't mean that Kroger as a whole is an exceptional place to be.

 

Raises that aren't based on performance is glorious? Haha, typical union puppet. You get to sit on your ass and pass off the work to other people, yet demand to be paid more because you've been there longer? If that isn't a typical middle school problem, then I don't know what is.

 

If you've done your research, PLENTY of other jobs give scheduled raises. It's just that they're very selective and value their employees so much that there aren't much positions open for them. But guess what? Kroger's turnover rate is so high that they're always hiring.

 

And about that union... you mean to tell me that I can have the privilege of sharing my paycheck with a fat cat? And in exchange, they'll provide me rights that are secured already by an Act of Congress? Hot damn, I can start a business like that and be rich in a month.

You're also telling me that an entity who can restrict a company's ability to issue wage hikes properly and where deserved (aka: union) is a god-send? Dear Lord... WHAT PLANET ARE YOU FROM?!?!?!?!?

 

There's a reason why the most successful companies that aren't struggling to turn a profit don't have unions.


 

 I think you just wrote the Great American Novel, NW. :)

 

I for one think it's sickening how many employees at my store are bragging about being in the union. You'd think these people had signed a personal agreement with God Himself insulating them from write-ups. The biggest problem, in my opinion, is that most full timers at my store should have never gotten it in the first place. They'll be unavailable on weekends, they'll be doing busy work like dusting meat trays (I **** you not), and then they turn around and say anyone working a second job outside of Kroger is just disloyal and too lazy to get full time status. XD


 

I joined because I'd never held a job where I had a union possibility before.
I also wanted to make sure I was 'protected' best I could and thought (naively) that the union would do it for me.
Six months working there now and I know a little more based off of this site and my own personal dealing with Kroger.
I lose $7 per paycheck due to Union dues.



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I like Kroger, like the union, like my job, like my coworkers (for the most part) and like the customers (for the most part). Yeah, I wouldn't want to work at McDonald's. I'm not posting on this forum because I think "Kroger sucks," I'm posting here because this is like the only Kroger forum I found, and it's fun to shoot the bull with people who do the same work but at different stores throughout the nation.

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Anonymous wrote:

So I stumbled across this website, and frankly, I'm baffled. I work for Kroger's, and I love it. I used to work at McDonald's, it was hell. You're complaining because you start out at entry level wages and then, oh no, you have to work there for 5 years or so to top out? How horrible! Except not really. At McDonald's you don'to get raises, you get treated like an animal. No union, nothing.  

Seriously, what planet are you people from?  There are so few jobs, let alone jobs that ACTUALLY GIVE YOU SCHEDULED RAISES. Not to mention, at the Kroger where I work at least, these raises aren't even based on your preformance, they're based on hours worked. You work 200 hours, you get a raise, and so on and so forth. 

Ridiculous. 

I have yet yet to meet anyone rude or incompetent at my store, I have in fact met sevreal of the best managers I have ever had the pleasure of working with. Just because your store sucks or you have a ****ty manager doesn't mean that as a whole Kroger's sucks. 

Honestly, try working at McDonald's for a few months and you will be begging for your job at Kroger's back.


 Well I work in the bakery aka Hells kitchen soooo yeah that automatically makes your whole argument invalid lol

Ill take Mc Donald's job for 200 Alex...



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So I stumbled across this website, and frankly, I'm baffled. I work for Kroger's, and I love it. I used to work at McDonald's, it was hell. You're complaining because you start out at entry level wages and then, oh no, you have to work there for 5 years or so to top out? How horrible! Except not really. At McDonald's you don'to get raises, you get treated like an animal. No union, nothing.  

Seriously, what planet are you people from?  There are so few jobs, let alone jobs that ACTUALLY GIVE YOU SCHEDULED RAISES. Not to mention, at the Kroger where I work at least, these raises aren't even based on your preformance, they're based on hours worked. You work 200 hours, you get a raise, and so on and so forth. 

Ridiculous. 

I have yet yet to meet anyone rude or incompetent at my store, I have in fact met sevreal of the best managers I have ever had the pleasure of working with. Just because your store sucks or you have a ****ty manager doesn't mean that as a whole Kroger's sucks. 

Honestly, try working at McDonald's for a few months and you will be begging for your job at Kroger's back.


 Well I work in the bakery aka Hells kitchen soooo yeah that automatically makes your whole argument invalid lol

Ill take Mc Donald's job for 200 Alex...


 You think kroger customers are bad, try fast food customers.  I worked a wendy's in high school and I remember getting yelled at waay more their than here.  People are picky about their food and for some fast food is the only place they go to eat out.  People can't pull pickles or tomatos of their burger.  I generally worked a ten hour day (5pm-3am)  and never earned any overtime.  I suppose you could work under a bad contract that is just as bad, but drop an application and give it a spin for a second job. 

 

That being said its not saying much that kroger is better than fast food. 



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I've had some pretty horrible jobs in the past, including McDonald's, and I have to say that Kroger is not that bad, comparatively, but I've been here for 5 years and am just now making $8.05/h still part time. It was either get a second job or starve to death.

The job I started at less than a year ago has me making $8.75/h and guarantees 30 hours per week with nights and weekends off. Also, the work is easier and i really like my boss there. If I were given full time at the other job I would quit Kroger in a heartbeat.

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How dare you! You're not allowed to be unhappy because there are worse jobs out there, waah!

Why don't we take it a step further? I'm baffled how you could complain about McDonalds when there are people out there unemployed and dying for a job? Don't you know people are starving and unable to pay their rent?  What's wrong with you??

 

See what I did there? There are always worse situations out there, but that doesn't negate your own bad experiences. 



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How dare you! You're not allowed to be unhappy because there are worse jobs out there, waah!

Why don't we take it a step further? I'm baffled how you could complain about McDonalds when there are people out there unemployed and dying for a job? Don't you know people are starving and unable to pay their rent?  What's wrong with you??

 

See what I did there? There are always worse situations out there, but that doesn't negate your own bad experiences. 


 

If you want to be unhappy, go right ahead.  It can always be worse and that was my point.

 

The worst job I ever had was working at fedex as a package handler.  Very hot, dusty, and dirty.  I'd work fast food before I did that again. 



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How dare you! You're not allowed to be unhappy because there are worse jobs out there, waah!

Why don't we take it a step further? I'm baffled how you could complain about McDonalds when there are people out there unemployed and dying for a job? Don't you know people are starving and unable to pay their rent?  What's wrong with you??

 

See what I did there? There are always worse situations out there, but that doesn't negate your own bad experiences. 


Everyone complains. It's human nature. Realizing it could be worse humbles me. Wishing for better just keeps me miserable. I choose the path of less misery.



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I'm sure all of us understand there's people worse off...BUT when a store manager promise you more than 12 hours a week, and every week all you receive is 12 hours while they have a younger male non-manager team member receiving 40 a hours a week you wonder WTF.

As a female senior citizen being assigned to work the receiving area breaking down pallets,moving product out to the floor, stocking and conditioning shelves, i want more than 7.95 an hour. Until I find another job where I can make a better salary, or hit the lottery to pay off my debits, I will continue to voice my angry on how some of Krogers managers treat their staff.



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