Can't win at this **** job

Date: Sep 21, 2016

Can't win at this **** job

Date: Sep 21, 2016

Do what I do nowadays: let it go in one ear and out the other. Screw 'em. Management isn't serious about fixing the problems and corporate isn't either. As you said, all they care about is their bulging bonus checks and superfluous salaries while a majority of the employees try to survive on a pittance. I have learned to do what other employees do: let management whine and complain until blue in the face and go back to working at a pace that isn't stressful or back-breaking. What are they gonna do? Fire people? Right, lol, when they can't even hire people for what they pay. Nobody gets fired unless someone is stupid enough to steal. So stop caring as much. You'll find it makes the job a lot easier and more tolerable! Remember, you get paid by the hour and not by how much product you stock or customers you check out or how many carts you push in! So might as well make each hour as easy on you as possible!

Date: Sep 21, 2016

Don't be a pussy..clock out and finish you shet. No breaks anymore.

Date: Sep 22, 2016

Anonymous wrote:
Don't be a pussy..clock out and finish you shet. No breaks anymore.

I had a front end manager get fired for working off the clock. And she's been with the company for years. I don't think that is wise advice.

Date: Sep 24, 2016

Anonymous wrote:
Don't be a pussy..clock out and finish you shet. No breaks anymore.

Sometimes I've been tempted to, just to do the job right, but at the same time not hear their complaining. However, I'd rather earn what's mine than be this company's b!tch, the way they treat us around there. And anyway, I'm pretty sure as the other anon said, it can lead to termination. In my mind, they probably wouldn't realize I gave them some free labor, as their head is way too far up the front end's ass all day to notice, or even care. But there would be that one time they decided to wander over, and then they would see me still there. Been with them almost two years, not trying to rejoin the unemployment line. As you also touched on, seems that just doing the job the best I can, and going home at my scheduled time works, if I haven't been terminated yet. No reason I see to do that. I'm just sick of it all, the lazy pieces of shiite i work with who make my job difficult (might as well not even show up if you just plan on sitting down on a u boat for most of your shift), managers making their comments on problem areas, but never offering help when you're obviously overwhelmed, the customers who you can also rarely ever please. I had the most ridiculous thing happen the other day, we've got a handful of those "woe is me, you mean you don't want to help me?" puppy dog eyed customers who come over to produce, and they always seem to come on the same day. But they'll bring some product over to you INSISTING, not even asking, that you reduce it for quick sale, when it's nowhere even near that point yet. And they absolutely will not go away until they've spoken to a manager about it, whom of course takes their side, cause kroger's gotta:"make it right." For a company that's so uptight about money and budgets, I'm surprised they cave so quickly to these people being that it makes them a couple dollars less profit.

Date: Sep 24, 2016

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Don't be a pussy..clock out and finish you shet. No breaks anymore.
I had a front end manager get fired for working off the clock. And she's been with the company for years. I don't think that is wise advice.

Never work off the clock. If you're injured, Kroger doesn't have to assume any responsibility for your medical bills. Also, in many cases it's illegal and Kroger can get into big trouble if it's found that its employees are working off the clock.

http://employment.findlaw.com/wages-and-benefits/is-it-illegal-to-work-off-the-clock.html