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I work at a large Kroger store as a front-end cashier. I make $11.63 an hour and my union dues are $18.75 a week plus $5 for medical insurance that I don't use and I can't figure out how to opt out of it. I live in a place where avg rent is $1600 a month. Put simply, I HATE my job. Once I find something else I'm quitting the next day, don't care about the reference. SCREW this place!

I'm part time at Kroger, full-time student, and my availability is pretty limited. I am fairly often scheduled outside of my availability and my managers are not very flexible about it. I feel like I'm constantly fighting tooth and nail with them just to get them to stick to my availability. This was a problem at my last cashier job as well because managers simply don't give a f*ck about cashiers and assume that we'll take whatever crappy hours we get.

Working a shift is miserable. It's a lot of heavy lifting -- I routinely get $500+ orders with plenty of 50lb. items (we sell Home, Garden and Apparel items in addition to groceries) and I lift it, bag it, and put it into the cart all by myself. Our courtesy clerks don't do anything except refuse to help anyone and walk around the parking lot with a sour face. What good are CCs if they don't even bag? Why do the cashiers at this sh*t hole have to bag all by themselves? I seriously don't understand.

All my coworkers are total scrubs, many are rude, don't even get me STARTED on some of my managers! I've been at my store for just about six months and I've made friends with exactly zero people. At previous jobs I made friends quickly and easily, yet for some reason at this Kroger hellhole everyone is antisocial and hellbent on making the Kroger experience as poopy as possible.



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Sounds like good reason to quit to me.

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I think you are the problem not Kroger. I am sick of people saying you have to schedule me around this and that. You either want a job or you don't. Everyone knows that retail business don't give a crap about what you want(since you worked somewhere else as a cashier you should know it). What kind of job are you applying for now,another cashier job? I suppose you think it will be different this time . The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

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I think you are the problem not Kroger. I am sick of people saying you have to schedule me around this and that. You either want a job or you don't. Everyone knows that retail business don't give a crap about what you want(since you worked somewhere else as a cashier you should know it). What kind of job are you applying for now,another cashier job? I suppose you think it will be different this time . The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.


I think OP is right.  You are allowed to put your availability into the eschedule, you are allowed to put it on your job application.  Kroger should honor your availability.

 

OP, file a grievance each and every single week they schedule you outside of your availability.  You're paying over $18 a week union dues?  Get your moneys worth!!! 

 

The problem with Kroger is they sign these union contracts and then don't honor them.  Most employees don't have a union handbook or even know what's in their contract.  Don't expect Kroger management to help, they aren't union.

 

Find out who your union steward is at the store.  Have a talk with them.  



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I think you are the problem not Kroger. I am sick of people saying you have to schedule me around this and that. You either want a job or you don't. Everyone knows that retail business don't give a crap about what you want(since you worked somewhere else as a cashier you should know it). What kind of job are you applying for now,another cashier job? I suppose you think it will be different this time . The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.


I think OP is right.  You are allowed to put your availability into the eschedule, you are allowed to put it on your job application.  Kroger should honor your availability.

 

OP, file a grievance each and every single week they schedule you outside of your availability.  You're paying over $18 a week union dues?  Get your moneys worth!!! 

 

The problem with Kroger is they sign these union contracts and then don't honor them.  Most employees don't have a union handbook or even know what's in their contract.  Don't expect Kroger management to help, they aren't union.

 

Find out who your union steward is at the store.  Have a talk with them.  


 Kroger should honor her availability I agree. But then, don't complain that you're part time and not getting many hours, living in an area where rent is $1600 a month. If you're not available half the time, then give the hours to the people who actually want to work.



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$5 a week for insurance and you work part time?  Most jobs don't even give part time employees insurance.  I know you stated you don't even use the insurance, most people don't.  Until something happens.  You might be glad you have it some day.  Hopefully that day never comes but better to be over insured than under insured.  Especially if it's only $5. 

 

As far as your $1,600 a month rent, you signed the lease, you enrolled in school, you accepted a part time job at Kroger.  Explain to us how unfair you are being treated because I just don't get it.

 

Call your HR department and tell them you don't want or need the insurance anymore.  That's how you handle that.  You tell them. 



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I think you are the problem not Kroger. I am sick of people saying you have to schedule me around this and that. You either want a job or you don't. 


 Sorry that some people have lives outside of their job.



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I think you are the problem not Kroger. I am sick of people saying you have to schedule me around this and that. You either want a job or you don't. 


 Sorry that some people have lives outside of their job.


True!  Plus who wants to give Kroger open availability for the pay they give you?  Or have their vacation days denied?  Our store is open from 6 am to 12 am 364 days a year, and if you are lucky you can get a few hours.  But to have to fight them for 15 to 20 hours a week on a regular basis?  Um, no.  Sorry.  I have this and that to do. 



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Dude stfu. Kroger should respect her availability.  When I was being interviewed, I first let them know that I was a college student and they assured me that they were flexible.  So far no problems . Every time I put in a request, it gets approved.  OP just has a crappy schedule writer 



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Op is a female dog



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OP was obviously just venting. No one needs to show disapproval of their wanting to quit.

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Being a line cashier for $11.63 an hour sounds amazing. It is the physically easiest job in the whole store, flexible scheduling, and very little Key Retailing. You're doing much better than a lot of people.



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I think you are the problem not Kroger. I am sick of people saying you have to schedule me around this and that. You either want a job or you don't. Everyone knows that retail business don't give a crap about what you want(since you worked somewhere else as a cashier you should know it). What kind of job are you applying for now,another cashier job? I suppose you think it will be different this time . The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.


 Actually Anonymous after this job I've realized that retail managers have  no interest in working around a student's schedule and I'm going to work in the restaurant business hopefully on weekends only. But nice try you presumptuous jerk, maybe you're mad because I have an escape plan out of this underpaid and undervalued line of work.



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$5 a week for insurance and you work part time?  Most jobs don't even give part time employees insurance.  I know you stated you don't even use the insurance, most people don't.  Until something happens.  You might be glad you have it some day.  Hopefully that day never comes but better to be over insured than under insured.  Especially if it's only $5. 

 

As far as your $1,600 a month rent, you signed the lease, you enrolled in school, you accepted a part time job at Kroger.  Explain to us how unfair you are being treated because I just don't get it.

 

Call your HR department and tell them you don't want or need the insurance anymore.  That's how you handle that.  You tell them. 


 I don't have $1600/month rent, I still live with my parents to be honest. I'm just saying that it's impossible for me to move out given the wage that I'm paid. $11.63/hr SEEMS decent but in this part of the country it buys you pretty much nothing.



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Being a line cashier for $11.63 an hour sounds amazing. It is the physically easiest job in the whole store, flexible scheduling, and very little Key Retailing. You're doing much better than a lot of people.


 
Here in my part of the West Coast $11.63/hr is  nowhere near a living wage. Maybe if I lived in a place where rent was $600 a month for an apt like in Texas or Montana, it would be decent. But here it's no bueno.



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Not to sound rude then, but why did you leave either of your past jobs for Kroger? You said in your other post in another thread that those jobs were better.

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$5 a week for insurance and you work part time?  Most jobs don't even give part time employees insurance.  I know you stated you don't even use the insurance, most people don't.  Until something happens.  You might be glad you have it some day.  Hopefully that day never comes but better to be over insured than under insured.  Especially if it's only $5. 

 

As far as your $1,600 a month rent, you signed the lease, you enrolled in school, you accepted a part time job at Kroger.  Explain to us how unfair you are being treated because I just don't get it.

 

Call your HR department and tell them you don't want or need the insurance anymore.  That's how you handle that.  You tell them. 


 but this is why you should be able to opt out of it.. who do you think pays the rest of the insurance? You wonder why you don't get a raise. well in the past opt out was a good idea but now paying 5 is better than obama care. but ya life isn't fair welcome to the real world I love all the people who complain to me about paying bills while I stand there watching them text on a brand new iphone



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$5 a week for insurance and you work part time?  Most jobs don't even give part time employees insurance.  I know you stated you don't even use the insurance, most people don't.  Until something happens.  You might be glad you have it some day.  Hopefully that day never comes but better to be over insured than under insured.  Especially if it's only $5. 

 

As far as your $1,600 a month rent, you signed the lease, you enrolled in school, you accepted a part time job at Kroger.  Explain to us how unfair you are being treated because I just don't get it.

 

Call your HR department and tell them you don't want or need the insurance anymore.  That's how you handle that.  You tell them. 


 but this is why you should be able to opt out of it.. who do you think pays the rest of the insurance? You wonder why you don't get a raise. well in the past opt out was a good idea but now paying 5 is better than obama care. but ya life isn't fair welcome to the real world I love all the people who complain to me about paying bills while I stand there watching them text on a brand new iphone


 And usually they are bills for luxury items... i.e. cable, car note for a brand new car, tanning membership.... I sometimes wonder how these people live such an extravagant life working PART TIME as a cashier. Then I remember that they're either at home or living off student loans, which is another bill they'll be bltching about in 6 years, cuz you know, there's not a rush to finish in four years anymore...



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$5 a week for insurance and you work part time?  Most jobs don't even give part time employees insurance.  I know you stated you don't even use the insurance, most people don't.  Until something happens.  You might be glad you have it some day.  Hopefully that day never comes but better to be over insured than under insured.  Especially if it's only $5. 

 

As far as your $1,600 a month rent, you signed the lease, you enrolled in school, you accepted a part time job at Kroger.  Explain to us how unfair you are being treated because I just don't get it.

 

Call your HR department and tell them you don't want or need the insurance anymore.  That's how you handle that.  You tell them. 


 but this is why you should be able to opt out of it.. who do you think pays the rest of the insurance? You wonder why you don't get a raise. well in the past opt out was a good idea but now paying 5 is better than obama care. but ya life isn't fair welcome to the real world I love all the people who complain to me about paying bills while I stand there watching them text on a brand new iphone


 And usually they are bills for luxury items... i.e. cable, car note for a brand new car, tanning membership.... I sometimes wonder how these people live such an extravagant life working PART TIME as a cashier. Then I remember that they're either at home or living off student loans, which is another bill they'll be bltching about in 6 years, cuz you know, there's not a rush to finish in four years anymore...


 Probably because finishing in 4 years is no longer feasible?

 

As a CS major, I would have to take 16 credit hours each main semester, along with 9 to 12 credit hours each summer, to graduate in 4 years.

 

That isn't possible to do, while still having a job, and maintaining good grades.



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The problem with Kroger is they sign these union contracts and then don't honor them.  Most employees don't have a union handbook or even know what's in their contract.  Don't expect Kroger management to help, they aren't union.


 There is a union handbook?  Where do I get this?



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