So recently i have decided to get my eyebrow pierced. Knowing full well that everyone else was allowed to under our old service manager as long as it was clear or covered by a band-aid. But amazingly after we get a new Service manager, who obviously dislikes me, tells me to take it out. Why is it that suddenly the policy is enforced when the service manager doesnt like somebody? and why is it that my store manager wont form an opinion of their own, and ever our district manager asked if i could just leave it in until it heals. Why is my District Manager asking my Service Manager for permission?
Yes i know it does go against Company Policy, which i know has been revised since i've been hired (and no where to be found online), but what i didnt know was that when someone new comes along what has always been acceptable suddenly becomes a my-way-or-highway scenario?
Policies at Kroger are ****ing bull****. They enforce them when they want, regardless of how other people feel about them. This company is going to hell.
i bet the new service manager doesn't actually have anything against you or not anything that they wont soon forget. they are new to the store so they are probably just trying to establish 'authority' over their workers. front ends are mostly younger (and im just assuming cos the piercing you are too). not every "adult" (a.k.a old person) knows how to deal with 16-20 year olds very well, just like some teachers should have never become teachers. you have to admit, even if you are one, high school kids are not the same as older people. the other managers asked if you could keep it until healed cos they dont want to penalize you for the reasonable expectation you had of it being okay. that and (i want to find some real statistics on this now) nowadays piercings and tattoos are so popular and dont have the stigma they carried 10-20 years ago. But all the 40+yr olds still have to buy groceries (and they buy so much) and they still think the same things about piercings and tattoos they did 10-20+ years ago. And your service manager can still get in trouble if they let their employees break dress code. And if your service manager lets you break dress code i guarentee some snotty brat you work with will claim some right to get away with crap because you can have a eyebrow ring. guarenteed.
So recently i have decided to get my eyebrow pierced. Knowing full well that everyone else was allowed to under our old service manager as long as it was clear or covered by a band-aid. But amazingly after we get a new Service manager, who obviously dislikes me, tells me to take it out. Why is it that suddenly the policy is enforced when the service manager doesnt like somebody? and why is it that my store manager wont form an opinion of their own, and ever our district manager asked if i could just leave it in until it heals. Why is my District Manager asking my Service Manager for permission?
Yes i know it does go against Company Policy, which i know has been revised since i've been hired (and no where to be found online), but what i didnt know was that when someone new comes along what has always been acceptable suddenly becomes a my-way-or-highway scenario?
So recently i have decided to get my eyebrow pierced. Knowing full well that everyone else was allowed to under our old service manager as long as it was clear or covered by a band-aid. But amazingly after we get a new Service manager, who obviously dislikes me, tells me to take it out. Why is it that suddenly the policy is enforced when the service manager doesnt like somebody? and why is it that my store manager wont form an opinion of their own, and ever our district manager asked if i could just leave it in until it heals. Why is my District Manager asking my Service Manager for permission?
Yes i know it does go against Company Policy, which i know has been revised since i've been hired (and no where to be found online), but what i didnt know was that when someone new comes along what has always been acceptable suddenly becomes a my-way-or-highway scenario?
Eyebrow piercings are ugly and trashy.
As long as the person who got it likes it, then it doesn't matter what other people think.
This post speaks to a larger issue, and one that young people today need to grapple and deal with and learn work place survival skills from.
If they're even capable of that any more, which seems to be increasingly in doubt.
'The manager obviously doesn't like me'. Why, cuz they're not kissing your ass? They're enforcing a policy? 'Other people have been doing it!!' will NEVER be an excuse. 'Other people' have been allowed by other managers to violate a policy does not = it's your right to do the same. It's a discretionary thing. You'll never win this on the company policy side, might as well just comply with you're told to do. That's what working a job is.
Going along to get along is some 95-plus % of persevereing in the work place. Life is full enough of its own issues, don't create more.
Having dealt with bullies and people that just don't plane like you for no applicable reason; you have a few choices:
Learn to work with them. (If possible find a middle ground. Might take years.)
Request to work opposite shift as theirs.
Limit your shift cross overs with them. To reduce your exposure to them.
Please bring this issue with your manager. I've filed many a ethics report against people like this. Let them know what they are doing. If b.s. like this isn't allowed in office environments it sure the hell shouldn't be allowed here.
Limit your speech with them as to reduce the amount of b.s. they do to you. Remember the phrase: If you have nothing polite to say don't say it. Words are very powerful.
Keep a log to document all the not to company standards they do to you. This is your case against them. I had to transfer away from a few stores because of people like this. It was fine until they followed me (ironically) a few years later. Then I filed a few union grievances against them for being well a di--ck to me. Then they finally straightened up.
