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40-50% of the store staff falls into this category. People at my store talk about forming an unofficial walk against the manager the days leading up to thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving is when we should have kroger by the balls  



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A) Isn't gonna work. Don't even waste your time trying.
B) You will jut get fired (i.e. NO pay instead of the LOW pay you're complaining about) and don't expect the union on your side. You walk without it being organized by the union itself and the union will hand Kroger the pen to sign your pink slips.

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I am part time working full time+ hours at the moment.  I love my job and would never want to walk off the job.  We just got 4 new people so not sure where my hours will be in 2 weeks.  From what I have seen so far, my hours will not be cut too much!

I am paid well and almost equally to full time(50 cents less) employees.  It is the employees hired after 2010 that aren't paid well.

I agree with what techelite posted.  I had an old timer tell me that the last time they striked here in the 1980s, it hurt kroger.  I remember walking past Kroger picket lines in San Antonio as a teen in 1983.  If there is ever another strike, kroger will close the store and be rid of everyone.



-- Edited by Anonymouse1 on Tuesday 28th of October 2014 03:58:31 PM

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I have a better idea. Why don't you haul your ass to Target to make $8 an hour at 20 hours a week!

 



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Anonymouse1 wrote:

I am part time working full time+ hours at the moment.

I am paid well 


-- Edited by Anonymouse1 on Tuesday 28th of October 2014 03:58:31 PM


 

I think you are wanting the Wal-Mart forum.
Or maybe the Ingles forum.



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I am part time working full time+ hours at the moment.

I am paid well 


-- Edited by Anonymouse1 on Tuesday 28th of October 2014 03:58:31 PM


 I think you are wanting the Wal-Mart forum.
Or maybe the Ingles forum.


 No, yo quierro ese pago.  Yo trabajo currenta y mas horas para mas que dos anos.

I am part time.  I have worked a lot of OT for the last 2 years.  For what I do, I am paid well.  I started at minimum wage and now make double.  Working for Kroger is not rocket science.



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40-50% of the store staff falls into this category. People at my store talk about forming an unofficial walk against the manager the days leading up to thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving is when we should have kroger by the balls  


If only there were some sort of an organization that bartered hours, wages, benefits etc on behalf of employees...  Hmmmm...



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40-50% of the store staff falls into this category. People at my store talk about forming an unofficial walk against the manager the days leading up to thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving is when we should have kroger by the balls  


  What is your store?  Just letting people who need a job know where to apply as they'll be ass hiring if you even think of a walk out...  Our you a union member?  Your union could get dinged for this stunt! 

What at is the $ difference between full time & part time?  Are you people really going to be like the fast food workers?  Do you want $15/hr too? When I graduated college I got a job making just over $15 and have found out that  $15/hr is about average for college graduates starting out.  Fast food worker and cashier at a grocery store was never intended to be a full time job/career...  These positions are entry level designed for high school and college students needing some extra cash...  Now some make a career our of it, show they have a little brain power and move into management.  

Instead of going to school we have a generation and a country full of immigrants who don't have the desire to go to school or work up the ladder and say "life is expensive, pay me more WAH" But do nothing else to improve their lives!

its funny, those who want $15/hr don't understand simple economics, once the minimum wages hits $15/hr the price for a big mac is going to match the wage increase, groceries will go up, rents will go up, etc.  very soon inflation will catch up and making $15 will be just the same as making $8/hr...  You might even price yourself out of a job...  Your company could closes...  Let's just say inflation didn't increase and everything stayed the same but these lower level jobs paid $15/hr...  The school bus driver, hr assistant, front desk person at a doctors office etc  currently making $15/hr is going to decide they  deal with too much crap, stress, or responsibility...  It's only a matter of time before they say "screw it, I can $15/hr bagging groceries or flipping burgers', I don't need this" and take your job...

 



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An unofficial walk against the manager without the union's approval is called "wildcatting" and will get you fired. If you believe you or other people should be full time, use your contract language to get promoted to full time.



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Union will NOT help if you do an unauthorized walk out. The most Kroger will do is get your termination papers ready for you to sign. Maybe if it was a LEGITAMATE reason, (extreme prejudice, harassment, extreme assault (physical or sexual), unsafe working conditions, extreme nazi like manager behavior) there is a great possibility to have a chance.

But being paid part time hours for workin full time and doing a walkout? No.

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What at is the $ difference between full time & part time?  Are you people really going to be like the fast food workers?  Do you want $15/hr too? When I graduated college I got a job making just over $15 and have found out that  $15/hr is about average for college graduates starting out.  Fast food worker and cashier at a grocery store was never intended to be a full time job/career..


 If you started out with this magical $15 an hour job, and have all this money to flaunt your Audi, what are you doing on a Kroger forum? Not being sarcastic, just wondering.

 
 
 
 
 


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40-50% of the store staff falls into this category. People at my store talk about forming an unofficial walk against the manager the days leading up to thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving is when we should have kroger by the balls  


  What is your store?  Just letting people who need a job know where to apply as they'll be ass hiring if you even think of a walk out...  Our you a union member?  Your union could get dinged for this stunt! 

What at is the $ difference between full time & part time?  Are you people really going to be like the fast food workers?  Do you want $15/hr too? When I graduated college I got a job making just over $15 and have found out that  $15/hr is about average for college graduates starting out.  Fast food worker and cashier at a grocery store was never intended to be a full time job/career...  These positions are entry level designed for high school and college students needing some extra cash...  Now some make a career our of it, show they have a little brain power and move into management.  

Instead of going to school we have a generation and a country full of immigrants who don't have the desire to go to school or work up the ladder and say "life is expensive, pay me more WAH" But do nothing else to improve their lives!

its funny, those who want $15/hr don't understand simple economics, once the minimum wages hits $15/hr the price for a big mac is going to match the wage increase, groceries will go up, rents will go up, etc.  very soon inflation will catch up and making $15 will be just the same as making $8/hr...  You might even price yourself out of a job...  Your company could closes...  Let's just say inflation didn't increase and everything stayed the same but these lower level jobs paid $15/hr...  The school bus driver, hr assistant, front desk person at a doctors office etc  currently making $15/hr is going to decide they  deal with too much crap, stress, or responsibility...  It's only a matter of time before they say "screw it, I can $15/hr bagging groceries or flipping burgers', I don't need this" and take your job...

 


 Here the top out for part time is a little over $10 an hour, reached after 4 years of continuous service from minimum wage base.   Full time is a little over 14.   So, full time status is definitely a big jump.   Not to mention being able to get 40 hours, which I think is the most important part.   Typically good employees will find a way to get full time, even if it takes a couple of years.     Part time workers who treat it like "just a job, not a career" typically never get full time, and deservedly not so.  They are typically the ones who complain as well.   Work hard, show initiative and make efforts to move up have always worked where I am at.  It can take time, but it happens.  And if it doesn't?  Get a transfer.   There are stores with piss poor management, and an exodus of the good employees should in effect show that to their higher ups.   I've seen it happen.



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What at is the $ difference between full time & part time?  Are you people really going to be like the fast food workers?  Do you want $15/hr too? When I graduated college I got a job making just over $15 and have found out that  $15/hr is about average for college graduates starting out.  Fast food worker and cashier at a grocery store was never intended to be a full time job/career..


 If you started out with this magical $15 an hour job, and have all this money to flaunt your Audi, what are you doing on a Kroger forum? Not being sarcastic, just wondering.


 There's nothing magical about my job it pays 15 & change an hour ($15/hr for a 40 Hour week is $31,200 a week) $15 / hour is def not "all this money" it's only $600 a week before taxes, for a single person that's only about $480 a week.  Like I said that's a common salary for a entry level job with a degree, unless your parents are rich or you have a GI Bill you're student losns are going to be at least $400/month...

 

as as for the question of why I'm here...  Well this is one of the pages on my ipad, I open it and the refreshes...  As fir the reason I'm here, I don't work for Kroger, I said my job isn't that magical and Kroger hires those with a degree for the management trainee program.  I think you can figure out what I'm doing here...



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What at is the $ difference between full time & part time?  Are you people really going to be like the fast food workers?  Do you want $15/hr too? When I graduated college I got a job making just over $15 and have found out that  $15/hr is about average for college graduates starting out.  Fast food worker and cashier at a grocery store was never intended to be a full time job/career..


 If you started out with this magical $15 an hour job, and have all this money to flaunt your Audi, what are you doing on a Kroger forum? Not being sarcastic, just wondering.


 There's nothing magical about my job it pays 15 & change an hour ($15/hr for a 40 Hour week is $31,200 a week) $15 / hour is def not "all this money" it's only $600 a week before taxes, for a single person that's only about $480 a week.  Like I said that's a common salary for a entry level job with a degree, unless your parents are rich or you have a GI Bill you're student losns are going to be at least $400/month...

 

as as for the question of why I'm here...  Well this is one of the pages on my ipad, I open it and the refreshes...  As fir the reason I'm here, I don't work for Kroger, I said my job isn't that magical and Kroger hires those with a degree for the management trainee program.  I think you can figure out what I'm doing here...


 Not to be an *******, but why are you driving a LUXURY car when you make $15 an hour and (I'm assuming) have student loans? The only imports I see Kroger employees drive are Honda, Nissan, and Toyota.



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We had a guy who drove a 3 series BMW.  Part time clerk making 16 an hour.  I think he had a few roomies and was broke.  Had some other guys driving brand new trucks or cars who "helped" their parents.  Most long time employees are driving old hoops or riding the bus. 



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What at is the $ difference between full time & part time?  Are you people really going to be like the fast food workers?  Do you want $15/hr too? When I graduated college I got a job making just over $15 and have found out that  $15/hr is about average for college graduates starting out.  Fast food worker and cashier at a grocery store was never intended to be a full time job/career..


 If you started out with this magical $15 an hour job, and have all this money to flaunt your Audi, what are you doing on a Kroger forum? Not being sarcastic, just wondering.


 There's nothing magical about my job it pays 15 & change an hour ($15/hr for a 40 Hour week is $31,200 a week) $15 / hour is def not "all this money" it's only $600 a week before taxes, for a single person that's only about $480 a week.  Like I said that's a common salary for a entry level job with a degree, unless your parents are rich or you have a GI Bill you're student losns are going to be at least $400/month...

 

as as for the question of why I'm here...  Well this is one of the pages on my ipad, I open it and the refreshes...  As fir the reason I'm here, I don't work for Kroger, I said my job isn't that magical and Kroger hires those with a degree for the management trainee program.  I think you can figure out what I'm doing here...


 Not to be an *******, but why are you driving a LUXURY car when you make $15 an hour and (I'm assuming) have student loans? The only imports I see Kroger employees drive are Honda, Nissan, and Toyota.


 I don't drive an Audi, I wish I did that's just my user name.  You don't own a uboat do you?  I also don't make $15/hr...  I said I started out of college at just over $15, but now it's more like just over 19 ( a couple of years later).  Yes, I do have student loans.  Just so I know, at what salary may I start thinking about looking at a luxury car? Tbh, if your credit isn't ****ed up, it's cheaper leasing a luxury car than owning these **** boats you see people maintaining, keep on sinking money into.  Here's a couple of grand repair, here's a few grand repair...  Why not just have a car under warranty?  Right now I'm just driving my car that's paid for until I get into e line of work I want to be in...  You really don't see Kroger management driving luxury cars at your stores?  What part of the country are you in?  ...and like Kroger management in stores  aren't living above their means I houses they can't afford?  



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