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ex co-manager came to visit the store today
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Just to shop around with her friends. She is beyond happy at her new job.



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That's the same reaction I get from managers who were once there too. Most either go to a better store or a different industry altogether. Anything is better than Kroger imo.

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One of my co-managers just quit two weeks ago. No one seems to know where he is now.



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My old compamy got rid of two co managers last year. One was fired for too aggressively stopping a shop lifter, the other was cut in a round of corporate lay offs. Both were insufferable pricks, and nobody's sad they're gone. 

I saw them talking to each other in the parking lot of one our two stores recently, and they looked like a coupla little lost doggies biggrin



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We had an assistant store manager quit and go work for Frito Lay, and sometimes she comes in and stocks for out store. She's happier, and I don't blame her. It's an odd sight though.



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I had a former manager like this who I worked with at another store, another chain...He used to be such a stiff, condescending, never-speak-two-words-to-you type of person...He was always wearing these blue suits and never lifted a finger to get himself dirty with the rest of us...He liked to watch everyone work more than anything...But, interestingly, he left the company...He had a few health scares over the years and I think it changed his whole outlook...I saw him again when he walked into my Kroger a few years back...The man that was so distant remembered me and was talking to me like I was his best friend...I was taken aback, but he actually started coming in with some regularity and I eventually got the courage to ask him what had changed in his personality...He told me how the higher-ups were always demanding more and more and that the attitude was a trickle-down from them...Corporate would talk down to managers...Managers would then talk down to their dept. heads and dept heads would pass that on to their employees...Employees would get mad at their families...Eventually, everyone was pissed off for something! When he had those health scares (I don't remember what he said exactly, but I think he had some heart problems...), it changed his outlook completely...He didn't want to be that kind of person anymore and I respected him much more when I knew WHY he acted like he did...This was an honest change in a man that also changed my way of looking at him...I also know of a store manager from the same earlier store who voluntarily bussed himself down to a dept. manager at a different chain...He came in to my Kroger one day and I didn't even recognize him...First of all, he shaved his mustache...And second, he was much more down to earth and friendly than I'd ever seen him...I knew there was a big change in his life...He only had a few people to dictate to as a dept. manager instead of the whole store...I believe it made him a much happier person and I can tell you that as a store manager, he wasn't the happiest guy to be around...These examples and more show what can happen when you're out of that high-stress environment...One of our old night crew guys occasionally shops at my store, too...He now drives a school bus and enjoys his work much more than when he was a team member...Anyway, some things to think about, guys...Remember, there are reasons why people do what they do...It doesn't make what they do right, but at least, I can understand it all in a different context and it goes to show that anyone can change...



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