I haven't worked for Kroger very long (3 years) but it is my impression that many of these longtime employees, back in the day, just starting out, WERE very good workers, but as the years have passed, they now feel they have 'put their time in', have worked hard and suffered a lot over their years with Kroger, and so they've got to the point where they feel they can just 'roll with the flow' and do as little as possible and yet somehow appear to be doing their jobs.
The management is afraid to give them much (or any) pushback because of their long work history.
In fairness, there are several "groups" of these kinds of employees...........some are still very hard-working, but because of age and the aches and pains that crop up with years of hard work, they are in constant pain and honestly don't feel like putting in a hard days work anymore. They are just about "worn out" and are looking forward to the day they will retire.
Others..........they are still in good shape but have grown increasingly lazy and try to do the very minimum required.........and so they try to pass on the "harder jobs" in their dept to newer/younger workers.
Because these are the people who know the union handbook back to front. It's difficult to get these people in trouble even when they deserve it.
This.
My produce dept has 2 notoriously lazy workers who have 10 years seniority but the union protected them from being moved to another department so we're stuck with them.
Luckily the other lazy employees with seniority moved themselves into other departments like click list.
Because these are the people who know the union handbook back to front. It's difficult to get these people in trouble even when they deserve it.
We also know where the skeletons are buried
Fair point, that's true as well lol Not all "veteran" employees are like that, some have all sorts of things they could dig up on management and co-workers alike too.
