I assume you've all heard that announcement playing on the speakers in between pages and mostly **** music I've heard over and over, as if I'm in an insane asylum with a tape on repeat (feels like it sometimes). I had to stop in the middle of what I was doing when I heard kroger claim to have "a competitive salary." For who? The store managers and on up the chain, flying to exotic destinations multiple times a year in private jets on their six figure kroger dollar? Certainly this announcement is not referring to us cogs keeping these stores running by doing all the real work, not just standing on the front end calling other departments up front to bag or retrieve carts, meanwhile slowing us down from doing our work, and then getting bitched at when it's not done. ****ing morons. We're the ones playing a perpetual game of beat the (time) clock every shift, or hearing that bitching, moaning lecture about overtime if we lose the game. In my opinion, we deserve the same competitive ****ing salary, you greedy, penny packing sons of corporate bitches, with your strict budgets for the hourly people who pull every ounce of weight in your stores, and salary employees who barely produce a bead of sweat their entire workday, unless they stress out about paying an hourly slave seven more dollars. Should be appreciative that anyone cares and is willing to make you *******s and your store look good.

A new Aldi just opened up right next to our kroger. I've already filled out my application. Probably about the same, I mean it's retail, but at least I hear they don't rape you up the ass as far as pay is concerned.