do you guys not have that commercial between songs at your stores?
yep, we have it. makes me laugh. least it's not as bad as the old one where they lie even worse... 'flexible schedules', yea right...lol. how, when you new you only get evenings? but all their hiring ads suck anyways.
Many management teams that run Kroger stores are afraid to fire anybody, even the laziest of the lazy, due to how bad the hiring situation is. Kroger is struggling to hire quality help because of the low pay rate and unstable hours, among other reasons. Thus, a lot of members of management subscribe to the logic, "it's better to have someone here that only works 10% of the time than not have someone here, period!" and the consequence of this thinking is employees take advantage of this and slack off/not work as hard because they know how short-handed their store is and that management doesn't want to lose anybody else. This is the source of some of your average/below average people. Management tries to scare them by "occasionally" writing them up (just not often enough to terminate them), but the employees treat the write ups as if it's no big deal at all because they know the write ups carry no weight.
Another reason you'll find average or below average employees is because, you know it and I know it, you get what you pay for. There are hard working good people at Kroger, but let's face reality: there aren't as many of those people as there are at, say, Costco. Costco pays for the best and gets the best. The higher the pay, the higher the standards, and the higher the standards, the better quality employee. Kroger doesn't invest in its employees... Kroger wants cheap labor that won't stick around to accumulate weeks of vacation or be with the company long enough to begin receiving raises that are more than ten or fifteen cents. Again, when you pay your employees below average pay and benefits, you attract below average employees.
Many management teams that run Kroger stores are afraid to fire anybody, even the laziest of the lazy, due to how bad the hiring situation is. Kroger is struggling to hire quality help because of the low pay rate and unstable hours, among other reasons. Thus, a lot of members of management subscribe to the logic, "it's better to have someone here that only works 10% of the time than not have someone here, period!" and the consequence of this thinking is employees take advantage of this and slack off/not work as hard because they know how short-handed their store is and that management doesn't want to lose anybody else. This is the source of some of your average/below average people. Management tries to scare them by "occasionally" writing them up (just not often enough to terminate them), but the employees treat the write ups as if it's no big deal at all because they know the write ups carry no weight.
Another reason you'll find average or below average employees is because, you know it and I know it, you get what you pay for. There are hard working good people at Kroger, but let's face reality: there aren't as many of those people as there are at, say, Costco. Costco pays for the best and gets the best. The higher the pay, the higher the standards, and the higher the standards, the better quality employee. Kroger doesn't invest in its employees... Kroger wants cheap labor that won't stick around to accumulate weeks of vacation or be with the company long enough to begin receiving raises that are more than ten or fifteen cents. Again, when you pay your employees below average pay and benefits, you attract below average employees.
