has anyone noticed how awful some of the older employees treat the younger ones? Tired of elders/superiors treating younger people not as their equals. No one has the right to look down on someone because of age. youre old... deal with it. Stop being pricks.
oh my, yes. i get really sick of the old fuddy-duddies who can't summon their collective testicles to just retire already. my department thankfully is people around my age or a bit older (minus the 74 year old man who is very nice) but there are elders in other departments who i can't stomach to interact with. be nice to your workers, or else they're going to realize that they don't have to take this $h1t and they'll quit to seek a job where they actually are treated with dignity.
-- Edited by nightcrewzombie on Saturday 8th of April 2017 07:28:11 AM
I think that the comment "You're old deal with it" is a discriminating comment. Discrimination is not suppose to be allowed at Kroger. I have nothing wrong with age except that the old seem to work a lot harder than the young. The young don't want to get their hands dirty, call in all the time, and only work the hours schedule. The elders rarely call in, aren't afraid to get their hands dirty, do their job (unless they've been there 10 or more years) and come in to cover for the young.
I'm sorry that this is the case. I've experienced it as well. They do feel like they're immediately owed respect because they are older as well as how long they've been with the company. Usually, if you show them that you're not a punk ass douche, they will respect you. If you're young and it can be visibly seen that you work hard, they might even be impressed.
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You had an employee bbq yesterday? Thanks for telling the night crew...
Im not trying to be discriminating. Older people act like they're owed a ton, which they can be but only to a cert extent. some younger people are lazy and childish, but we're NEW to the responsibility tossed on Our shoulders. Instead of treating younger workers like ****roaches how about some help and mentoring. Were not all brats.
Kind of the opposite at my store. Save for my DH and back up cake decorator, I haven't really seen any major ego issues and so forth with the older people I have worked around. Save for if my back is popping or I mention a twinge in my knee or something like that. Will get a comment about how some are older than I am and that I'm too young to have X,Y,Z wrong with me. But I look over those comments considering the ones that are usually saying stuff like that, aren't picking up as much slack as I do throughout the day.
As for the younger employees, I've heard some rather nasty comments towards some of the older workers. Like how stupid so and so is. Or how they don't give a flying bleep about explaining this or that. To which I think is beyond disrespectful, most especially as I knew if I had said anything even close to some of the stuff they say about an older individual, I'd have gotten my smile permanently re-arranged, LOL.
Eh it's not about the age, it's about the mentality. I know some older people who are damn good workers, I know some older people who are lazy and entitled. I know some younger people who fit both sides of the spectrum as well.
Im 40 and ive been with kroger 2 months. WORK in dairy with coworkers young enough to be my sons. I do as my 20 year old lead says to do. Not a Navy vet, but that cooler is our ship. Told our captain we all have different strengths. He gets paid the extra .75 cents to try to harness them to maxium corporate profitability efficiency lol
Well, in my experience in produce, nearly all the young people are not as good as the seasoned employees. Not because they are young and dumb, but because they have little work ethic and no will to improve or learn. That is the main problem. It's going to be a serious issue for departments like meat and produce when the seasoned vets retire in the coming years and the young generation can't fill their shoes. Go to any store with a young or even middle age (<50) department lead and you will see the departments look terrible. It seems to be a universal issue.
Well, in my experience in produce, nearly all the young people are not as good as the seasoned employees. Not because they are young and dumb, but because they have little work ethic and no will to improve or learn. That is the main problem. It's going to be a serious issue for departments like meat and produce when the seasoned vets retire in the coming years and the young generation can't fill their shoes. Go to any store with a young or even middle age (<50) department lead and you will see the departments look terrible. It seems to be a universal issue.
And part of this is also because older guys won't respect a young lead or backup's commands. Seriously. Their egos are through the roof. And why should they? The older guys been around much longer and have more experience and think they already know everything so what is some 20-something going to teach them, they think.
That is kind of true as well. I'm under the age of 30 and that was one of my worries when I became a department head. How was I going to be able to go into a store, work with an employee twice my age who's worked there since before I was born and tell them what to do?
I work with a few young workers, as old as my daughters. I think that is where I go wrong, I see them as my kids. When my daughters act entitled, above others, or like they can't be stopped. I show them the opposite. I might be old, but I can do as much or more than most of the younger ones. This can be intimidating. You need to stop seeing people for their age, disability, sex, and race. Try changing that view and see them as equals. Look at and talk to them the same way as you would look at a customer.
We have 2 ladies in our department that are in their 70's and they both work circles around the younger employees. One of the ladies is full time and breaks down our deli orders on the back dock and brings them up to the department because none of the younger people will do it. The sad thing is, the younger people in our department will actually just stand there and watch them both work.
