In one week. That's how much overtime they are attempting to cut down from the Cincinnati/Dayton Division District 2 this week, compared to the previous week. And what did they have to say? "Welcome to the new world."
I just want these suits to understand, we use this overtime because YOU need it, not because we personally need it. We use it for YOUR store. For YOUR departments. For YOUR failing systems. We work to help YOUR store and Kroger succeed so that we still have a job and so that everyone we work with can still have a job.
You have understaffed us and refused to deal with it. You care only about next week, but what about the week after that? What about Labor day? Shelves will be bare. Things will get dirtier. Trucks will get smaller and smaller. Your sales will go down. Your customers will leave. You're forcing dense ups on skeleton crews filled with new people. You've forced order revolution on us, and sticky mins. You tried to force night crews to stock faster for the same amount of money, telling them they must stay until the work is done. Every department and every lead, every comanager and every store manager is stressed out. The people who care and work are are the only ones hit by this... and it's just going to push even more of them away. It's just going to push more customers away. Do you think they don't see it to? Wake up already. It's the summer, when people take their vacations. People need to make up those hours so that your shelves can be filled and our instocks can be met. Everything is top priority still, so you are settig us up for failure, to get yelled at about numbers that will be impossible to meet. You are setting the entire employment of store-level employees up for failure.
I work in the Dayton/Cincinnati division and they are trying to kill us. We do not have any bagger help at my store. One of the backups in front office told me that the front end schedule got whacked pretty good for this week. I have almost thirty one years and I have never seen Kroger so stupid. Let the people from corporate work a awhile in the stores and see what we go through and they might changed their stupid ways but it be a miracle if they saw the light. Hopefully I am working one more year and I am done with with Kroger. Customers are not happy they have to help bag.
Funny you should mention this now. I'm in So. Cal. and we are all wondering what the heck just happened this week.
We are already skeletoned out, and now they just cut my hours by over 10 for a week, and I have 3! days off. I'm also getting a backup that had not worked in my department one single day in his life. I wanna see how this backup is gonna do my markdowns and order my merchandise, work my backstock and a load. And do 3 scans we are now required to do every day. All this in 1,5 hrs they are now giving for this job.
Good workers, people who care are hurting. This borders on mental abuse. All our department numbers are great, despite all the hurdles they are throwing at us. So as a thanks, they cut our hours. Maybe they think we manage to keep the department looking great because we have too much time to do it. But we manage, because we care and pretty much don't take breaks, only the mandatory lunches. They have a surprise coming, and they can't say they have not been told so.
No matter what the consequence though, it's always our fault.
We're the ones failing the customer, failing the company.
We're the ones that aren't working hard enough or care enough.
It's never people like Rodney McMullen who are fault. Nope. That guy is such a hard worker that he so deserves the pay increase he got last year:
"... a 17 percent pay raise by the companys board of directors. His total compensation jumped from $9.2 million to a staggering $11.2 million. Assuming he works an average number of hours per year, which the federal Office of Personnel Management estimates to be 2,087, McMullen now makes $5,366.55 per hour, or $89.44 per minute."
I mean, we have to make sure he is well compensated for all the heavy lifting he does on a daily basis and we should be totally okay with making sacrifices so that this man gets what he so rightfully deserves. Right? Right.
If anyone knows whats going on in my area, they might know who i am by this post but:
I just got transferred stores again this week.
I walk into my new store, see my schedule, and see that I have a department of 5 people. Two of which are restricted.
when my last bakery manager from my home store worked there, she had like 7 people in the department, most of them were getting 30-40 hours a week.
Where did all the hours go in like two years? So now I'm going to struggle because cookies are on sale on the front end table and we have no one to even bake cookies right now. I was by myself for 5 hours yesterday.
Funny you should mention this now. I'm in So. Cal. and we are all wondering what the heck just happened this weekWe are already skeletoned out, and now they just cut my hours by over 10 for a week, and I have 3! days off. I'm also getting a backup that had not worked in my department one single day in his life. I wanna see how this backup is gonna do my markdowns and order my merchandise, work my backstock and a load. And do 3 scans we are now required to do every day. All this in 1,5 hrs they are now giving for this job. Good workers, people who care are hurting. This borders on mental abuse. All our department numbers are great, despite all the hurdles they are throwing at us. So as a thanks, they cut our hours. Maybe they think we manage to keep the department looking great because we have too much time to do it. But we manage, because we care and pretty much don't take breaks, only the mandatory lunches. They have a surprise coming, and they can't say they have not been told so.
OP here. Sorry to hear about this, we are in the same boat. to the other poster above, asking what department I am in, I am a night leader in dry groc. I won't identify myself more than that, though. But I know exactly what you're talking about. More wheels, more backstock, less time to work the backstock. More scans, less time to do them. The addition of keebler and kelloggs, no time added for number management. I know, I know. We are all in this boat together. This **** **** boat. I don't even know what's possible to do about it outside of the metaphor that when a pallet falls over, you don't catch it. you let it fall... or else you might die lok
this sounds awfully like what is happening at my store. less hours, less people, more stock, more bullsh*t. all for the same amount of money. want me to work twice as hard? pay me twice as much.
If anyone knows whats going on in my area, they might know who i am by this post but:
I just got transferred stores again this week.
I walk into my new store, see my schedule, and see that I have a department of 5 people. Two of which are restricted.
when my last bakery manager from my home store worked there, she had like 7 people in the department, most of them were getting 30-40 hours a week.
Where did all the hours go in like two years? So now I'm going to struggle because cookies are on sale on the front end table and we have no one to even bake cookies right now. I was by myself for 5 hours yesterday.
It might be best to start using all the experience you've built up over the years at Kroger as a selling point and put your resume out there to see if you can get hired on somewhere else because you know it's only going to continue to get worse at Kroger. The writing is on the wall. Kroger's stock is tanking, the number of new stores the company plans on opening continues to be reduced more and more, the Marketplace model isn't nearly as successful as it was intended to be, ClickList - Kroger's supposed "future" is actually losing money in many stores due to low order counts and can't compete well with Walmart's/Amazon's services, and, well, the list goes on.
Several department heads that I've worked with at my current store and previous stores are no longer department heads. The reason being? They've gone elsewhere, to companies that pay better and treat their people better, too. This has left such a gap that Kroger is pretty much willing to promote anyone to department head nowadays... whether the person is qualified or not... and the results aren't pretty. When you have multiple departments failing due to inept/unqualified department head leadership and management that just wants to yell, complain and throw more paperwork at the situation, customers take notice... and go elsewhere. It's been happening for some time now, but it's really becoming a huge problem now.
Kroger is the next K-mart.
It may take another thirty years or so, but yeah, Kroger will end up the way K-mart did.
The problem is even if I wanted to quit at this point would a similar company hire me in at 18$ an hour? I'm kind of boxed in as a dept head I feel and I can't afford a pay cut at the moment.
The problem is even if I wanted to quit at this point would a similar company hire me in at 18$ an hour? I'm kind of boxed in as a dept head I feel and I can't afford a pay cut at the moment.
The only way to find out is to apply elsewhere and go through the interview process. If it gets to the point where the company wants to hire you, then that's when you bring up the issue of pay. If the company is willing to match your current pay or heck even offer you more, then it's up to you to decide if the opportunity is worth pursuing. If the company won't match your current pay, then you don't have to accept the job. Simply thank the person for the opportunity, but explain that your current financial situation doesn't make it possible for you to get by with anything less than $18.00 an hour.
Hopefully Amazon will buy Kroger as well, one day. I'd actually like to put my skills and hard work into a company willing to properly adapt and provide ACTUAL customer service. Even if Kroger does turn into a big warehouse for grocery home delivery. Who even cares anymore. Kroger doesn't even want me to care anymore.
Hopefully Amazon will buy Kroger as well, one day. I'd actually like to put my skills and hard work into a company willing to properly adapt and provide ACTUAL customer service. Even if Kroger does turn into a big warehouse for grocery home delivery. Who even cares anymore. Kroger doesn't even want me to care anymore.
I'd be a bit careful what you wish for... I know this isn't the same thing, but I've worked with former Kroger employees that took jobs at an Amazon warehouse because the pay was better, but they all ended up quitting within three to six months because of just how bad conditions were/how terrible they were treated by management there. Just because working for Kroger sucks doesn't mean things would necessarily get better if Amazon came in and took over. I mean, it could be better, sure, but I wouldn't say it's a guarantee.
Right. Read some (or any) of the AmHoleZon exposés online. Kinda shows how bad Krogrr is that this other notoriously abusive corporation is able to lure so many associates away.
They've gone elsewhere, to companies that pay better and treat their people better, too.
Krogrr does set the bar VERY low by those criteria. Be proud when your company manages to make AmHoleZon appear like a platinum parachute.
Now they have clicklist in my store and they hire someone and throw them a handheld and say go do it, no real training. They ask me what to do, now I run away from them.
