I called in yesterday and today due to being sick. I went to the doctors yesterday and he told me to stay home again today because I'd be contagious until my fever broke. However, I'm thinking of calling in again tomorrow because I'm still feeling really crappy. My fever did break though. I did get a doctor's note saying that I can return to work tomorrow. But, I'm not going in if I still feel crappy. No way. If they give me ****, oh well. I'm not playing hooky, I really am sick. I even have proof that I went to the doctors. Also, I sound like death. Although, I don't think that they'd really say anything to me considering I've worked there 8 months and have never called in before, but you never know. Plus, it's supposed to be really cold tomorrow and I'm a CC. Going out into the cold to do carts won't be good for me.
Kroger doesn't care that it's cold. They just want you to do your job and bring in carts. My store does like a bazillion dollars a day and has been open for more than one year. Long enough for front end to get its ass in gear and have plans in place for when we get rushes or are really busy and it's tough FOR ONE PERSON to do 'lot. But nope. They expect one plus one to equal three and for you to just shut up and ignore facts and instead accept their mathematics.
The customers sure as hell don't care either. They'll abandon their carts in the lobby like a Boston Marathon bomber. They'll drive so close to you in the parking lanes as you push carts that you could reach out and key their vehicles with your fingernails. They'll drive up and park in the fire lane or no parking zone as their significant other or wife or husband - usually elderly by the way - goes shopping. And god help you if they ARE elderly because they'll be sitting in that vehicle in the fire lane for 30 minutes or more. And of course the spot they choose to "park" will be the exact line of use you need to push those carts in to the foyer area.
They'll also randomly throw, toss, push, slug and otherwise abandon carts in a corral without a second thought. Oh, you took the time to line the smaller carts and larger carts up in a row thinking you could easily come back in a little bit and empty the corral? Not you, says the hen. You'll come back and find these bastards have pushed four small carts into the large ones, and suddenly out of nowhere there's a colorful kids cart in the middle. It'll take you 20 minutes on the next corral to bring in carts because you'll have to sort through that same Mobius Strip-like bullcrap.
It's cold? Ha! Do you think Kroger gives a rat's ass? They don't provide gloves. They don't provide any sort of winter assistance. If you don't bring your own, well, good luck buddy, try not to freeze for your minimum wage job.
And after you are done in your half-hour or hour (usually hour) you are expected to bump right in to bagging groceries again with a smile on your face and warmth in your heart. And that warmth will probably be in your heart because it will be the only place on or in your entire body that is not freezing or below a temperature of 98.6.
I say call out. They will make do. This place - this company - is NOT WORTH YOUR HEALTH.
-- Edited by FrontEndSlave on Tuesday 6th of January 2015 11:10:39 PM
..Also, despite what FrontEndSlave(there is truth to it of course), Kroger can be contradicting when it comes to this sort of thing. They want you to come in if you got one foot in the grave, but they also don't want to risk you getting hurt on the job and having to you worker's comp.
I do have a doctor's note. The note says that I was able to go back today, but I woke up with a fever again and the doctor told me that I can't go back until I'm fever free. Also, mind you, I got the doctor's note on Monday so there was really no saying in how I'd feel today that day.
-- Edited by DanielleNicole94 on Wednesday 7th of January 2015 12:05:19 PM
I do have a doctor's note. The note says that I was able to go back today, but I woke up with a fever again and the doctor told me that I can't go back until I'm fever free. Also, mind you, I got the doctor's note on Monday so there was really no saying in how I'd feel today that day.
-- Edited by DanielleNicole94 on Wednesday 7th of January 2015 12:05:19 PM
It depends on your stores management team. They could say your doctor note says you are well enough to return on Wednesday and you didn't show today, plus tomorrow if you call in. The doctor's note doesn't say "if you don't have fever" does it? And how in the hell do you prove that? Can you get someone to cover your shift? Everybody's hours have been cut so much, maybe someone will work for you?
I do have a doctor's note. The note says that I was able to go back today, but I woke up with a fever again and the doctor told me that I can't go back until I'm fever free. Also, mind you, I got the doctor's note on Monday so there was really no saying in how I'd feel today that day.
-- Edited by DanielleNicole94 on Wednesday 7th of January 2015 12:05:19 PM
It depends on your stores management team. They could say your doctor note says you are well enough to return on Wednesday and you didn't show today, plus tomorrow if you call in. The doctor's note doesn't say "if you don't have fever" does it? And how in the hell do you prove that? Can you get someone to cover your shift? Everybody's hours have been cut so much, maybe someone will work for you?
Good luck, hope you feel better soon.
I won't be calling in tomorrow because I'm feeling better now. I'm concerned though that they won't accept the doctor's note since it was only good through yesterday. But I have a note to prove that I was there so I would think that they would accept it. If I have to, I can take in my discharge papers from urgent care or have them call the urgent care to speak to the doctor themselves. That's where the problem is. I'm a CC and we only have 5 daytime CCs. One is out on medical leave and another is out on maternity leave. So, that only leaves me and two others. Believe me, I felt terrible for leaving the two CCs alone, but I was just too sick to work. I'm just worried about them not accepting the doctor's note because it says that I can return to work on 1/7/15. But if I tell them that I had a fever today then they might accept it, right?
If you vomit on their shoes they might accept the fact that you were sick.
As much as I push myself and whine about the parking lot "duty" I think it will take me collapsing and getting a customer to call 911 before they'd reconsider their scheduling practices.
