Okay, so I've been a CC since I've started working at Kroger this year. (early January). They started me,working making 7.30$ an hour. Then I gota raise to 7.35$ an hour.
Now all of a sudden my supervisor wanted me to sign a blank sheet of paper with nothing on it but what she told me to quitewrite which was. I -insert name here- am aware that I was hired as a courtesy clerk. Then the following weekweek on my pay check I was dropped to 7.25$ an hour.
When i confronted that same supervisor she just told me don't you remember that paper you signed? And I'm like yeah, but that didn't say anything about a payment change. I was basically just telling me what I already know. She said I started on a cashiers salary on "mistake" so now I just make 7.25$ no raise, no nothing. To me it just doesnt seem like it was done right. Cause I didn't know anything about a CC would make or a cashier and I was well into this year before thus even came up (2 days ago).
So can anyone give me any suggestions on what to do?
Well if you've been getting cashier wages this whole time I think you could fight it. This whole time you have been listed as a cashier and they haven't bothered to train you.
This is why you should never sign anything. I don't really know if you can fight it or not but you should try.
Nothing you can do now. You signed something saying you were hired as a courtesy clerk, and courtesy clerks make minimum wage. You could try to get out of that position and into a (barely) better-paying one, but that's it.
Quit Kroger. If they can't afford to pay you an extra 10 ****ing PENNIES an hour then they aren't worth your time. Hell even Walmart will give you a raise after probation.
^ I used to work at Wal-Mart. That's untrue. They give yearly raises, and they're between 0 and 40 cents (max is 50, but no one gets that) a year, topping out at much less than Kroger's pay scale. Of course, they also don't have 'courtesy clerks', they're cart pushers, and also minimum wage.
You are right, but it wasn't an official paper or anything. They way she did it was so "sneaky" though. I am going to just tell my union about it, and if nothing happens from there then so be it. After nearly half a year, I'm pretty much done with Kroger.
So let me get this straight. You signed a blank sheet of paper and now your supervisor is saying you signed a paper stating you were a courtesy clerk? That's illegal.
So let me get this straight. You signed a blank sheet of paper and now your supervisor is saying you signed a paper stating you were a courtesy clerk? That's illegal.
Basically. The paper that I signed was blank computer paper. In fact the only writing on it was wrote. I know I was stupid for signing it, but I wasen't thinking properly and to my knowledge I knew and they knew I was a CC. Never been on a register there.) My thing is its been soooooo much time that has elasped since I started there. And I even got a raise from the 7.30 to 7.35 from that same supervisor. Why now make the change? She never explained why I needed to sign, but Iwas bugged about it. They didnt even keep my raise either.
Just be glad they aren't taking the money back you were overpaid!
Because an extra $1.60 a week was really putting a strain on Kroger's bank account wasn't it? All joke aside, an employer can't take back money it "overpaid" to an employee. They can certainly lower the employee's wage to the local minimum wage, but they can't garnish your wages and send the money back to themselves. Doing so would be unethical and illegal.
Just be glad they aren't taking the money back you were overpaid!
You are right too, but its not my fault they made a nearly a whole year mistake. I mean come on. I started at the beginning of this year. And its october now. Look how much time has went by. I know someone saw that. The fact that SHE gave me a raise from proves she knew Iwas being paid a cashiers salary and not a CC.
All joke aside, an employer can't take back money it "overpaid" to an employee.
You bet your a$$ they can, if it was paid in error. I've seen it happen before. I'm not sure whether OP's situation counts, but if money is paid in error, they can most definitely take it back. I've seen it happen with thousands of dollars that were overpaid to an employee, because of a long-term T&A issue, that had to be taken back over the better part of a year.
Nothing you can do now. You signed something saying you were hired as a courtesy clerk, and courtesy clerks make minimum wage. You could try to get out of that position and into a (barely) better-paying one, but that's it.
This is why people are told on here to never sign anything. Don't sign it unless you know 100% what the paper says or will do.
I have had to deal with one write-up on paper so far in the seven months I have worked as a courtesy clerk. I did not sign the paper. I refused. The management in question at the time acknowledged it and made a note on the paper that I had refused to sign. That was the end of it.
Kroger is nefarious for these things. Do not sign unless you know for fact what the thing says, even if you have to go through a lot of 'ipso facto' legal crap.
All joke aside, an employer can't take back money it "overpaid" to an employee.
You bet your a$$ they can, if it was paid in error. I've seen it happen before. I'm not sure whether OP's situation counts, but if money is paid in error, they can most definitely take it back. I've seen it happen with thousands of dollars that were overpaid to an employee, because of a long-term T&A issue, that had to be taken back over the better part of a year.
Such a garnishment requires consent from the employee in writing. I'm not picking on OP, as he is likely fresh in the workforce, but if someone is dumb enough to sign a consent allowing Kroger to take thousands of dollars away from them, they pretty much deserve it. If I was overpaid and they demanded it back I would make damn sure that Rodney knew about it and spread the news to any local papers or channels hungry for another story about the evils of big corporations.
As someone already pointed out, you signed away $1.60 a week. Probably $1.00 after taxes and union dues. Big Whoop!
You got a cheap life lesson. Never ever sign a blank document for anyone ever. Always understand what you are signing and get a copy for your records.
Suck it up and keep doing what you were hired for.
Good luck.
$1.60 a week? I read that they took a $1 per hour away from him! That could be anywhere from $15 to $35 per week depending on how many hours he worked.
$1.60 a week? I read that they took a $1 per hour away from him! That could be anywhere from $15 to $35 per week depending on how many hours he worked.
Nah, I read it as they got cut from $7.35 to $7.25 an hour. 10 cents isn't going to make or break anyone. 16 hours a week is $1.60.
Should that supervisor have you sign a blank paper and then fabricate what was on it? No. And if taken to court, a judge would invalidate that piece of paper.
But, of course, YOU will have to prove that it was blank in the first place.
I'm not calling you a liar, OP, but if you do decide to pursue this matter, you'll have to be able to prove that it was blank. And it's not like management will just say "Oh yeah, here's the CCTV footage, take it and make 10 copies!".
Honestly if that happened to me, I'd quit as soon as possible. If they were willing to stoop so low that they'll have you sign something that's essentially a blank check, then I wouldn't trust them to make sure that my hair is still the same color.
Yeah, you were an idiot for signing a blank sheet of paper, but I'm assuming you're young. I hope you've learned an important lesson here.
What management could've done instead was call you up and explain the screw-up.
$1.60 a week? I read that they took a $1 per hour away from him! That could be anywhere from $15 to $35 per week depending on how many hours he worked.
Nah, I read it as they got cut from $7.35 to $7.25 an hour. 10 cents isn't going to make or break anyone. 16 hours a week is $1.60.
