I broke my middle finger yesterday at work doing carts and right now it's in a splint (making it fairly difficult to type) and, on top of that, I now have to go to work in the rain. To explain why this is so bad; I have an hour walk from where I live to my store, and right now it's raining pretty hard with harsh winds. I have no waterproof coat or satchel to keep my uniform in. It's under fifty degrees, and if I show up soaking wet in my uniform, I'm going to be turned away and told to go back home. Not only that, but I will be soaked completely through - wet socks, wet underwear, in sub-optimal temperatures that will ensure I get sick. My cellphone is out of minutes (has been for the past month - I need to get paid before I can get more minutes) and have no one I can borrow a cellphone from to call the store to let them know I can't come in.
The main issue comes from two things; not only am I a new hire working 8 to 9 hour shifts on bad feet that feel like I'm walking on knives and have to walk to and from work on those feet for an hour each trip, but I just can't call in to let them know I can't make it. I have an email address from one of my supervisors, but trying to email them gets my message rejected by the Kroger servers. I can't tell anyone that I can't make it. Period. And since I'm new, this is going to look horrible. There is literally nothing I can do. I'm more or less screwed, here.
Help.
EDIT: Oh, I think I forgot to mention - SecureWEB and Greatpeople.me just REFUSE to let me log in. I know for a fact I;m putting in the right EUID and password since I wrote them down, but it keeps telling me either one of them (non-specific as to which) are incorrect, and I get locked out from trying again for fifteen minutes to twenty four hours at a time, and trying to recover my EUID basically gives me a "d'oh well!" pop-up and trying to recover my password fails systematically every single time.
-- Edited by Kupoinicus on Monday 22nd of January 2018 11:56:43 AM
I commend anyone wanting to work, all the problems you have noted your under your control. Your injury is one thing to possible prevent you from doing some tasks, but your ability to get to work is something you should have thought about before getting hired. If you feel your going to get wet while walking to work, change at work, put your uniform in a plastic bad. Also, is your unable to stand/walk because of the pain, request to work less hours, but again something that should have been thought of before applying.
I tried to call in sick today (have a virus; I'm not used to being around people or walking through the cold this often, walked to work with soaked feet yesterday and walked back with soaked feet) after borrowing a neighbor's phone - I told them I was very sick and that I can't make it. I was basically told I was going to be fired if I didn't show up, even if I have a doctor's note. So I looked up some things... and hoo boy, does Kroger suck. One guy was fired more or less BECAUSE he had Crohn's disease, another guy was forced to come in despite his grandfather being very ill (and the old timer died the day he came in to work, then his boss wrote him up for crying) and a lady was terminated after being accused of taking an 'extra break' without so much as a chance to defend herself from the accusation. Hell, another girl was more or less told that her children didn't matter and that availability changes because of her children weren't acceptable.
I've barely been working at Kroger a week and I am just... wow. This company is awful. They don't treat their employees well in my experience and expect them to work even if they're sick or soaked through from the rain.
"I commend anyone wanting to work, all the problems you have noted your under your control. Your injury is one thing to possible prevent you from doing some tasks, but your ability to get to work is something you should have thought about before getting hired. If you feel your going to get wet while walking to work, change at work, put your uniform in a plastic bad. Also, is your unable to stand/walk because of the pain, request to work less hours, but again something that should have been thought of before applying."- EUID Unknown
No they're not. You have no idea what my situation is like, so you don't get to make that judgment call, sorry. It's not an 'injury,' it's a problem that only started AFTER I got hired, so I didn't know it was going to be an issue when I applied for the job. Walking to work in forty to thirty degree temperatures IN THE RAIN is not a good thing. I thought the coat I had was waterproof, but it's only water resistant - after about thirty minutes in direct rain it soaks through.
I think I'm going to put in my two weeks today. I need the job but I don't want to work for a company that treats their employees this badly.
So its Winter, how were you going to get to work in the snow and cold weather? Every job has advantages and disadvantages, I guess I'm one that just looks at everything before I decide to do something. FYI, starting a new job and calling off in the first week or two is never a good sign for employers. Yes, people do get sick, but when your new your trying to show commitment to any new employers. Yes, I'm sure some people have been told "no excuses" when they had a COMPLETELY VALID EXCUSE. But I have learned many workers have spoiled it for the rest, some associates will call off work for any reason, I don't have underwear, I don't have a ride, I don't have my hair done, I didn't shower today. After a while managers just become immune to all the excuses and require associates to come to work. Also, calling off 5 minutes before you have to be at work because your scheduled doctors appointment 2 months ago...isn't a valid excuse.
Turns out I had the flu. Managed to get a ride from a neighbor to get in to the doctor, paid 75 dollars I couldn't really afford to for the visit and the Tamiflu prescription, had to take days off from work.
I can walk in the snow so long as it doesn't melt around my shoes. Have done it before. Really cold? I can dress warm, but not impermeable. I get it - no sympathy from you, that's fine Glengarry Glen Ross, didn't come here for any, just came here to vent about P.O.S. employers who don't really seem to care anymore. Still sick, but I was told I was allowed 3 days off from work for the flu not by my boss but from our HR person. Looks like I'm going in today anyway, so I can get more people sick, so I can make more people get off from work, so I can piss of my employers even more with a poor performance.
