What can you be written up for? Who is able to write you up? Are you to be informed if you've been written up? Is managers allowed to inform other employees about your write ups and/or other work performance? I'm asking not because it has happened to me, but because another member has and wasn't informed by managers, instead was informed by another employee.
If you hear anybody talk about your write-up and they are NOT your supervisor, you have a cause for action. I was written up once and the whole store found out. I immediately called the union rep who filed a grievance, but I also called and wrote a registered letter to corporate HR. This is a serious matter. No person is allowed to spread this info and Management knows that. It is part of their training.
My letter was responded to in a quick manner, an HR investigation, and interviews by them of store personnel.
The store manager was suspended for 2 weeks and transferred out. My write up was expunged from my record and also received a cash settlement from the company for privacy violation.
Don't know all of what you can be written up for. But I did learn today though that when you do markdowns, if you leave the paper that the woohoo stickers are on, in one of the bascarts with any extra markdowns you put out on the floor, you could get written up for that.
To which, I normally don't leave that in there anyway, just to be neater/OCD about cleaning up after myself if I'm doing them. But as the damn RF Gun and printers were acting up this morning on me. I just rushed through so I could get stuff out marked down and bring up truck and also help fill the floor so we could be closer to being set by 9.
I wasn't written up though, but one of the back up managers did get a mini chewing out b/c I did it. Hence she told me not to leave those papers in there again(no nasty tone though). So definitely live and learned on that one. Although I will admit also this is the first time I've ever heard of a write up for that particular thing before at my store(I mean I get we want the sales floor to be as presentable as possible, true enough. However, I think in the company handbook or even in each dept. there should be a section in there about dept. expectations as well. Even discuss some of the bigger ones in orientation. And not leave it as such a large grey area of what you can be written up for. I get we are adults, again true enough on that point. But, if there isn't some directive as to how they would like to see things being done, explained or in mentioned. Then there are often going to be issues).
I'd have accepted the write up though and been responsible for my behavior. But I'm not surprised, given that we nearly had write ups for not condensing boxes down in the bakery freezer....so yea, I agree with the poster about write ups tending towards the shady side of life at times. As it sometimes seems like they want to write you up for something they never effectively communicated earlier on.
If a manager doesn't like you or wants to write you up, you can be written up for anything if someone is having a bad day. You can be written up for untied shoe as it creates an unsafe work environment. What if you trip and roll a float in to a customer? What if it gets wrapped up in a jack wheel? This isn't just Kroger this is anywhere you go. It doesn't matter. Employers can do what they want and look for smallest reasons to write you up. Just work hard and do your best to be on everyone's good side without kissing azz.
