I've been working for Krogers for around a year now. When I first started there it wasn't that bad, but they started hiring in a few teenagers that refuse to do any work. Supposedly some of them have been written up 15-30 times each, yet they're still getting 35 hours a week. Examples of laziness below~
Bag 3 small orders then hide in the break room for the rest of their 8 hour shift.
Pulling out their phones and texting for 15 when there are 5 lanes open and only 2 clerks up front.
Sleeping on the job.
Never touching the Lot, Night Chores, Bathrooms or Bottle room.
One of the girls has been written up so much that the managers say they won't bother trying to fire her because the union will use her 'never doing her work and not getting punished for it' as a reason to keep her around and it would be a waste of time.
This type of stupid **** happen everywhere or is my Krogers a special kind of retarded? ^^
I've been working for Krogers for around a year now. When I first started there it wasn't that bad, but they started hiring in a few teenagers that refuse to do any work. Supposedly some of them have been written up 15-30 times each, yet they're still getting 35 hours a week. Examples of laziness below~
Bag 3 small orders then hide in the break room for the rest of their 8 hour shift.
Pulling out their phones and texting for 15 when there are 5 lanes open and only 2 clerks up front.
Sleeping on the job.
Never touching the Lot, Night Chores, Bathrooms or Bottle room.
One of the girls has been written up so much that the managers say they won't bother trying to fire her because the union will use her 'never doing her work and not getting punished for it' as a reason to keep her around and it would be a waste of time.
This type of stupid **** happen everywhere or is my Krogers a special kind of retarded? ^^
I'll say what I guarantee every white person on here's thinking: these people are minorities. Period. That's how bad it's gotten. Laziness doesn't have a race or gender, and it's human nature to do seek getting the most reward for the least effort.
I don't know what the reason is some people are allowed to get away with doing less than others while on the clock. I see similar stuff going on where I work. I know that there are some courtesy clerks/sanitation clerks that have been written up several times for things like sitting in the breakroom for long periods of time (when not on break) while clocked in and others that sit outside in their cars when they are supposed to be bringing in shopping carts. There is another person that works in the organic foods section that is always on her phone, it seems, both when working down the aisles and in the backroom. I see file maintenance clerks just sitting at desks chatting away and management says nothing. Nobody gets fired and getting "in trouble" amounts to being written up, but none of these people have been fired over the years. What about too the people that take three or four extended smoke breaks during the day in addition to their paid breaks? Why are they allowed to do that?
Screw Kroger. It's like as soon as management sets its sights on a hard worker, they work that person to death to make up for the fact that others are slacking off. I guess we're the dumb ones for making the mistake of trying to do a good job in the first place.
I've been working for Krogers for around a year now. When I first started there it wasn't that bad, but they started hiring in a few teenagers that refuse to do any work. Supposedly some of them have been written up 15-30 times each, yet they're still getting 35 hours a week. Examples of laziness below~
Bag 3 small orders then hide in the break room for the rest of their 8 hour shift.
Pulling out their phones and texting for 15 when there are 5 lanes open and only 2 clerks up front.
Sleeping on the job.
Never touching the Lot, Night Chores, Bathrooms or Bottle room.
One of the girls has been written up so much that the managers say they won't bother trying to fire her because the union will use her 'never doing her work and not getting punished for it' as a reason to keep her around and it would be a waste of time.
This type of stupid **** happen everywhere or is my Krogers a special kind of retarded? ^^
I'll say what I guarantee every white person on here's thinking: these people are minorities. Period. That's how bad it's gotten. Laziness doesn't have a race or gender, and it's human nature to do seek getting the most reward for the least effort.
YOU DAMNED RIGHT I B MILKIN DAT CLOCK. I GONNA GET MY WHITEY MONEY YA HEARD ME.
gunna be interesting to see what happens WHEN---not if----all the welfare $$ runs out, most of the viable, good jobs (the few we have left) out source completely, and Kroger starts shutting down scuzzy ass under performing stores chock fulla lazy-fuking hood rats.
When I was cashier at night, we had this one lazy high school girl. One night she got a candy bar and sat down and starting eating it. I ripped into her right in front of everyone.
Are you on your break? No? Then what makes you think you can sit down and just watch everyone else work while you eat candy! Get up right now and get back on that register!
My customers in line and other employees were nodding in agreement. Embarassed her to death the lazy bitch.
Sometimes ya just gotta let em have it. They deserve it.
I don't know what the reason is some people are allowed to get away with doing less than others while on the clock. I see similar stuff going on where I work. I know that there are some courtesy clerks/sanitation clerks that have been written up several times for things like sitting in the breakroom for long periods of time (when not on break) while clocked in and others that sit outside in their cars when they are supposed to be bringing in shopping carts. There is another person that works in the organic foods section that is always on her phone, it seems, both when working down the aisles and in the backroom. I see file maintenance clerks just sitting at desks chatting away and management says nothing. Nobody gets fired and getting "in trouble" amounts to being written up, but none of these people have been fired over the years. What about too the people that take three or four extended smoke breaks during the day in addition to their paid breaks? Why are they allowed to do that?
Screw Kroger. It's like as soon as management sets its sights on a hard worker, they work that person to death to make up for the fact that others are slacking off. I guess we're the dumb ones for making the mistake of trying to do a good job in the first place.
Welcome to my daily work life at the hell hole known as kroger, where some people earn their pay, and others get paid for minimal effort. The first job that has provided me with a personal comprehension of the sarcastic phrase "another day in paradise." Never in my 11 years of holding down all sorts of jobs, from restaurant cook, hotel, delivery driver, to "odd jobs" for temporary labor services such as construction, landscaping, etc., have I seen the type of blatant favoritism taking place as there is at Kroger.
I respect and applaud you for doing your job diligently, but in the same respect, don't bust your ass (especially not for kroger's laughable pay rate when compared to its competitors) to pick up the slack of coworkers who sit on their lazy sorry ass most of their shift. The hell with that. Management is simply taking advantage of you.
Attached picture to reinforce your point being made. I thought, "I'm glad I'm not a courtesy clerk anymore" as I took it. But then, I remembered, same concept of wasting time goes on in my department. At least I'm not cleaning up the rancid messes made by some sick son of a bitch in the bathroom, or having to brace myself for what might be in one of those mini trash cans on the walls of the female bathroom stalls. One time, the stench was so overwhelmingly awful that it triggered my gag reflex, and I gave myself something extra to clean up.
^ The trash cans in your picture don't look half as bad as the ones at my store do. Ours seldom get emptied, and because of that, it's a common sight in our parking lot to see trash literally spilling out of the mouths of the trash cans because they're so full. Excess trash ends up on the ground around the trash cans and it looks (and, especially during the summer, smells) terrible. I can't believe I haven't seen rats/roaches in the parking lot yet. Only when management gets "enough" complaints are the sanitation clerks forced to go out and empty the trash cans. The trash cans tend to overflow along the sidewalk, too, and forget about having a place to toss your trash in the break room because those are rarely emptied as well.
Not that I eat at work. Seriously, I don't, for a few reasons... but one is because I don't want to have to use the bathrooms there. Again, only when management gets "enough" complaints from customers are the sanitation clerks forced to actually do some cleaning. Nasty toilets and it's hit-or-miss if there is any toilet tissue in the stalls. If I have to step in a bathroom to wash my hands, the bathroom log on the door is signed off once, maybe two or three times for the day, and even then, they just sign off without doing much cleaning. People complain about how dirty/unsightly Walmart stores are, but the Walmart I shop at looks so, so much cleaner/nicer than the Kroger I work at.
I could go on and on... it's not just the people that do sanitation that don't seem to do much... it's a pretty easy to spot others just killing time and taking it easy. I really believe if the store I'm at had competition in the area, we might do half the business we do now. I think people only shop there and put up with it is because there isn't another grocery store nearby.
