He had driven this once-great company into the ground with his falsehoods (his infamous comment that the "brand is failing" which has led to the disasterous rebranding). Paying $40 million to an ad agency for said rebranding failure (as written up by many supermarket publications.) What will it take for him to get the boot?
Our small ma and pa store was known for taking care of it's employees. So well that most people were going to give their entire career to the company for being compensated so well. Since it was purchase by Kroger it sucks now. Employees are unhappy. Not treated fairly. Used, abused, taken advantage of. Availability requests are ignored. Workers are worked to death and it feels like a slave labor job half the time. Most receive a non livable paycheck and often quit due to lack of hours. Minimum wage in my state is not livable. It'll take 8+ years to see grocery index journeyman pay and that's without any hour games. This also excludes the waiting time to get to that pay scale. Union tries to compensate us with cost of living increases every few contracts but it's always never enough. Rights are taken away almost every contract. Minimum wage employees got screwed a few contracts ago and lost a lot of rights. Now we get flaky individuals that are mostly high schoolers that do cr-ap work and have cr-ap work ethic. Ethic violations left and right and no one at my store is held accountable for their actions. Management starts a lot of it and is aware of the issues but acts stupid like it never happened when it's being addressed by corporate. Union security is nice but at what cost? Most things that would get people fried from a traditional job are over looked here and actually encouraged. People are hired off the street often lack the ability to do dumbfoundingly simple jobs. Minimum wage c-r-a-p jobs basically.
I thought if you were to be with this company you had to be with the union. If you didn't apply to the union within a certain number of days you were fired. I've worked at other states and it's the same regardless where you go. Union apparently has several positions across the country that are non union employees working for a union store. How is Kroger getting away with this? UFCW should get on thier @$$ and do something about it. Any Kroger store I've worked at is union in my current state and out of my current state. The only non union positions are department management 1st, 2nd and 3rd manager positions. Otherwise everyone else is union.
