2013. Out of high school I had no idea what to do, college wasn't in the plans for me so I got a job at my local kroger. Drug/Gm stocker for 7.25 an hour. First real job on the books other than manual labor. I didn't mind. I worked my ass off, got fast where I could and had extra time to work on where I struggled. I learned CAO as best I could. The ins and outs that VERY FEW people actually know. It made things a little easier but above all it made it look like I knew what I was doing, and I kinda did. Slowly my whole department moved on and I was the senior other than the lead. So I took on the responsibilities of a back-up, not getting paid for it but people took notice. I took it seriously and always had pride in my work. After a year of being there I got my official bump to back-up of Drug/Gm. I did half the ordering and trained new people, did overnights for promo isle ect. The whole 9 yards. I always tried to be friendly to my fellow employees, get some face time with the store managers and become the guy they called on if they needed something done. In this time I saw about 15 different co managers come in and out. (Our store was a training store). The co managers really didn't know much and were pretty lazy standard management type. 2 store managers had cycled in and out as well. Slowly the resentment for co managers rose. I knew how to do everything in my department and knew the back room like the back of my hand, how to run everything, where the keys were to the back door ect. Eventually a position opened up for dairy lead. Now our dairy department did ridiculous numbers, second biggest dairy department in the district. D8. Texas. In a growing area and the only grocery store for about 10 miles in the area. I didnt know much about dairy, but I knew how to unload trucks, write orders clean ect. So I said **** it and went for that ****. I let management know I was interested and they said they would consider it and moved me over to a dairy. I started off just getting familiar with the procedures, the truck times and order times and where the most time was spent and needed. (Managers were doing the orders). Now I didnt have the job yet and there was 2 other people who were already in dairy and gunning for that position. 1 was the son of a district manager. Didnt matter, I went in there and acted like I was running the place. Being proactive and proving I had what it took. 2 weeks go by and I actually got the position. The other 2 guys were so salty but they knew I did more than them and I proved it. Being given the reins and shown roughly what to look for when ordering and the fast movers ect. The numbers in cao were all jacked up, bringing in to much product and not enough of another. Allocations being off from store remodel. So I went in at the numbers. Section at a time slowly getting everything relatively correct again. Now while doing this I had a good relationship with some other hard working stockers. They saw how I went up and they had the drive to do the same. So (and this is my secret) I trained them to be me. Explained everything I was doing and why I was doing it, had them shadow me on orders and explained cao to them, printed out cards with the hotkeys for the hand helds. Did EVERYTHING I could to get them on my level and even beyond me. I told them if I could move up they could to and I would do everything I could to help them if they stuck it out with me. Now that helped me as well, I could have them do orders, fix numbers, unload trucks ect. Pretty much everything it takes to run a department. We always hustled, busted ass and were in it together. I always asked my guys if they had anything they thought we could do better and actually valued their opinion. One of them became my back up and one went over to be lead of the nutrition section. We had each other's back and it made life their bearable. Slowly but surely though I was losing support from management due to new co managers every couple of months and a new store manager. I became jaded and hated the bull**** that kept getting added to my list as my department hours were cut. My sales numbers only grew though understanding what flavors of things sold the most and what the customers preferred. Around Christmas we were selling 90k items a week with 6 employees, 3 were full time and it was wearing on me. My backup took a promotion to grocery manager overnight that I didnt want. Grocery was a whole other beast and I didnt want to take that step and end up a lifer. That was my thought anyways. I was happy for him and thankfully the new guy who came in was my age and another hard working bro. So I repeated the steps, trained him to be me, better than me and we ran that ****. But The holidays were hitting and I was nearing the end of my rope with district manager bull**** visits and constanlty having to fluff **** up for no reason. One day I had it. Now I wish I could say I had the balls to just walk out but I couldn't do that to my team and im just not that kind of guy. I quit the second of the new year after being there for 3 years and it was the best decision of my life. My mental health was suffering, I was exhausted to have a social life, and the inconsistent schedule was horrible. All in all I learned a lot from kroger and the retail industry. I realized I needed a bigger purpose to my life than just filling poeple belly with dairy everyday, fighting to keep that kroger department look every week, continuing the cycle of suck.
I told my story to say this, if you work hard and create relationships and build trust with people you can go far. The few good people out there will notice and want to help you. Weay take advantage of that and watch out for them but I could have gone a lot higher of I chose to. The opportunity is there if you work at it. Its not the job I wanted in the end and im glad I realized it. KROGER DOES SUCK. But if you need the job you need the job, might as well do your best learn what you can and make some relationships on the way. 594.
2013. Out of high school I had no idea what to do, college wasn't in the plans for me so I got a job at my local kroger. Drug/Gm stocker for 7.25 an hour. First real job on the books other than manual labor. I didn't mind. I worked my ass off, got fast where I could and had extra time to work on where I struggled. I learned CAO as best I could. The ins and outs that VERY FEW people actually know. It made things a little easier but above all it made it look like I knew what I was doing, and I kinda did. Slowly my whole department moved on and I was the senior other than the lead. So I took on the responsibilities of a back-up, not getting paid for it but people took notice. I took it seriously and always had pride in my work. After a year of being there I got my official bump to back-up of Drug/Gm. I did half the ordering and trained new people, did overnights for promo isle ect. The whole 9 yards. I always tried to be friendly to my fellow employees, get some face time with the store managers and become the guy they called on if they needed something done. In this time I saw about 15 different co managers come in and out. (Our store was a training store). The co managers really didn't know much and were pretty lazy standard management type. 2 store managers had cycled in and out as well. Slowly the resentment for co managers rose. I knew how to do everything in my department and knew the back room like the back of my hand, how to run everything, where the keys were to the back door ect. Eventually a position opened up for dairy lead. Now our dairy department did ridiculous numbers, second biggest dairy department in the district. D8. Texas. In a growing area and the only grocery store for about 10 miles in the area. I didnt know much about dairy, but I knew how to unload trucks, write orders clean ect. So I said **** it and went for that ****. I let management know I was interested and they said they would consider it and moved me over to a dairy. I started off just getting familiar with the procedures, the truck times and order times and where the most time was spent and needed. (Managers were doing the orders). Now I didnt have the job yet and there was 2 other people who were already in dairy and gunning for that position. 1 was the son of a district manager. Didnt matter, I went in there and acted like I was running the place. Being proactive and proving I had what it took. 2 weeks go by and I actually got the position. The other 2 guys were so salty but they knew I did more than them and I proved it. Being given the reins and shown roughly what to look for when ordering and the fast movers ect. The numbers in cao were all jacked up, bringing in to much product and not enough of another. Allocations being off from store remodel. So I went in at the numbers. Section at a time slowly getting everything relatively correct again. Now while doing this I had a good relationship with some other hard working stockers. They saw how I went up and they had the drive to do the same. So (and this is my secret) I trained them to be me. Explained everything I was doing and why I was doing it, had them shadow me on orders and explained cao to them, printed out cards with the hotkeys for the hand helds. Did EVERYTHING I could to get them on my level and even beyond me. I told them if I could move up they could to and I would do everything I could to help them if they stuck it out with me. Now that helped me as well, I could have them do orders, fix numbers, unload trucks ect. Pretty much everything it takes to run a department. We always hustled, busted ass and were in it together. I always asked my guys if they had anything they thought we could do better and actually valued their opinion. One of them became my back up and one went over to be lead of the nutrition section. We had each other's back and it made life their bearable. Slowly but surely though I was losing support from management due to new co managers every couple of months and a new store manager. I became jaded and hated the bull**** that kept getting added to my list as my department hours were cut. My sales numbers only grew though understanding what flavors of things sold the most and what the customers preferred. Around Christmas we were selling 90k items a week with 6 employees, 3 were full time and it was wearing on me. My backup took a promotion to grocery manager overnight that I didnt want. Grocery was a whole other beast and I didnt want to take that step and end up a lifer. That was my thought anyways. I was happy for him and thankfully the new guy who came in was my age and another hard working bro. So I repeated the steps, trained him to be me, better than me and we ran that ****. But The holidays were hitting and I was nearing the end of my rope with district manager bull**** visits and constanlty having to fluff **** up for no reason. One day I had it. Now I wish I could say I had the balls to just walk out but I couldn't do that to my team and im just not that kind of guy. I quit the second of the new year after being there for 3 years and it was the best decision of my life. My mental health was suffering, I was exhausted to have a social life, and the inconsistent schedule was horrible. All in all I learned a lot from kroger and the retail industry. I realized I needed a bigger purpose to my life than just filling poeple belly with dairy everyday, fighting to keep that kroger department look every week, continuing the cycle of suck.
I told my story to say this, if you work hard and create relationships and build trust with people you can go far. The few good people out there will notice and want to help you. Weay take advantage of that and watch out for them but I could have gone a lot higher of I chose to. The opportunity is there if you work at it. Its not the job I wanted in the end and im glad I realized it. KROGER DOES SUCK. But if you need the job you need the job, might as well do your best learn what you can and make some relationships on the way. 594.
Like most here you probably still work there and smell like sweet butt. filthy ASSociate
2013. Out of high school I had no idea what to do, college wasn't in the plans for me so I got a job at my local kroger. Drug/Gm stocker for 7.25 an hour. First real job on the books other than manual labor. I didn't mind. I worked my ass off, got fast where I could and had extra time to work on where I struggled. I learned CAO as best I could. The ins and outs that VERY FEW people actually know. It made things a little easier but above all it made it look like I knew what I was doing, and I kinda did. Slowly my whole department moved on and I was the senior other than the lead. So I took on the responsibilities of a back-up, not getting paid for it but people took notice. I took it seriously and always had pride in my work. After a year of being there I got my official bump to back-up of Drug/Gm. I did half the ordering and trained new people, did overnights for promo isle ect. The whole 9 yards. I always tried to be friendly to my fellow employees, get some face time with the store managers and become the guy they called on if they needed something done. In this time I saw about 15 different co managers come in and out. (Our store was a training store). The co managers really didn't know much and were pretty lazy standard management type. 2 store managers had cycled in and out as well. Slowly the resentment for co managers rose. I knew how to do everything in my department and knew the back room like the back of my hand, how to run everything, where the keys were to the back door ect. Eventually a position opened up for dairy lead. Now our dairy department did ridiculous numbers, second biggest dairy department in the district. D8. Texas. In a growing area and the only grocery store for about 10 miles in the area. I didnt know much about dairy, but I knew how to unload trucks, write orders clean ect. So I said **** it and went for that ****. I let management know I was interested and they said they would consider it and moved me over to a dairy. I started off just getting familiar with the procedures, the truck times and order times and where the most time was spent and needed. (Managers were doing the orders). Now I didnt have the job yet and there was 2 other people who were already in dairy and gunning for that position. 1 was the son of a district manager. Didnt matter, I went in there and acted like I was running the place. Being proactive and proving I had what it took. 2 weeks go by and I actually got the position. The other 2 guys were so salty but they knew I did more than them and I proved it. Being given the reins and shown roughly what to look for when ordering and the fast movers ect. The numbers in cao were all jacked up, bringing in to much product and not enough of another. Allocations being off from store remodel. So I went in at the numbers. Section at a time slowly getting everything relatively correct again. Now while doing this I had a good relationship with some other hard working stockers. They saw how I went up and they had the drive to do the same. So (and this is my secret) I trained them to be me. Explained everything I was doing and why I was doing it, had them shadow me on orders and explained cao to them, printed out cards with the hotkeys for the hand helds. Did EVERYTHING I could to get them on my level and even beyond me. I told them if I could move up they could to and I would do everything I could to help them if they stuck it out with me. Now that helped me as well, I could have them do orders, fix numbers, unload trucks ect. Pretty much everything it takes to run a department. We always hustled, busted ass and were in it together. I always asked my guys if they had anything they thought we could do better and actually valued their opinion. One of them became my back up and one went over to be lead of the nutrition section. We had each other's back and it made life their bearable. Slowly but surely though I was losing support from management due to new co managers every couple of months and a new store manager. I became jaded and hated the bull**** that kept getting added to my list as my department hours were cut. My sales numbers only grew though understanding what flavors of things sold the most and what the customers preferred. Around Christmas we were selling 90k items a week with 6 employees, 3 were full time and it was wearing on me. My backup took a promotion to grocery manager overnight that I didnt want. Grocery was a whole other beast and I didnt want to take that step and end up a lifer. That was my thought anyways. I was happy for him and thankfully the new guy who came in was my age and another hard working bro. So I repeated the steps, trained him to be me, better than me and we ran that ****. But The holidays were hitting and I was nearing the end of my rope with district manager bull**** visits and constanlty having to fluff **** up for no reason. One day I had it. Now I wish I could say I had the balls to just walk out but I couldn't do that to my team and im just not that kind of guy. I quit the second of the new year after being there for 3 years and it was the best decision of my life. My mental health was suffering, I was exhausted to have a social life, and the inconsistent schedule was horrible. All in all I learned a lot from kroger and the retail industry. I realized I needed a bigger purpose to my life than just filling poeple belly with dairy everyday, fighting to keep that kroger department look every week, continuing the cycle of suck.
I told my story to say this, if you work hard and create relationships and build trust with people you can go far. The few good people out there will notice and want to help you. Weay take advantage of that and watch out for them but I could have gone a lot higher of I chose to. The opportunity is there if you work at it. Its not the job I wanted in the end and im glad I realized it. KROGER DOES SUCK. But if you need the job you need the job, might as well do your best learn what you can and make some relationships on the way. 594.
2013. Out of high school I had no idea what to do, college wasn't in the plans for me so I got a job at my local kroger. Drug/Gm stocker for 7.25 an hour. First real job on the books other than manual labor. I didn't mind. I worked my ass off, got fast where I could and had extra time to work on where I struggled. I learned CAO as best I could. The ins and outs that VERY FEW people actually know. It made things a little easier but above all it made it look like I knew what I was doing, and I kinda did. Slowly my whole department moved on and I was the senior other than the lead. So I took on the responsibilities of a back-up, not getting paid for it but people took notice. I took it seriously and always had pride in my work. After a year of being there I got my official bump to back-up of Drug/Gm. I did half the ordering and trained new people, did overnights for promo isle ect. The whole 9 yards. I always tried to be friendly to my fellow employees, get some face time with the store managers and become the guy they called on if they needed something done. In this time I saw about 15 different co managers come in and out. (Our store was a training store). The co managers really didn't know much and were pretty lazy standard management type. 2 store managers had cycled in and out as well. Slowly the resentment for co managers rose. I knew how to do everything in my department and knew the back room like the back of my hand, how to run everything, where the keys were to the back door ect. Eventually a position opened up for dairy lead. Now our dairy department did ridiculous numbers, second biggest dairy department in the district. D8. Texas. In a growing area and the only grocery store for about 10 miles in the area. I didnt know much about dairy, but I knew how to unload trucks, write orders clean ect. So I said **** it and went for that ****. I let management know I was interested and they said they would consider it and moved me over to a dairy. I started off just getting familiar with the procedures, the truck times and order times and where the most time was spent and needed. (Managers were doing the orders). Now I didnt have the job yet and there was 2 other people who were already in dairy and gunning for that position. 1 was the son of a district manager. Didnt matter, I went in there and acted like I was running the place. Being proactive and proving I had what it took. 2 weeks go by and I actually got the position. The other 2 guys were so salty but they knew I did more than them and I proved it. Being given the reins and shown roughly what to look for when ordering and the fast movers ect. The numbers in cao were all jacked up, bringing in to much product and not enough of another. Allocations being off from store remodel. So I went in at the numbers. Section at a time slowly getting everything relatively correct again. Now while doing this I had a good relationship with some other hard working stockers. They saw how I went up and they had the drive to do the same. So (and this is my secret) I trained them to be me. Explained everything I was doing and why I was doing it, had them shadow me on orders and explained cao to them, printed out cards with the hotkeys for the hand helds. Did EVERYTHING I could to get them on my level and even beyond me. I told them if I could move up they could to and I would do everything I could to help them if they stuck it out with me. Now that helped me as well, I could have them do orders, fix numbers, unload trucks ect. Pretty much everything it takes to run a department. We always hustled, busted ass and were in it together. I always asked my guys if they had anything they thought we could do better and actually valued their opinion. One of them became my back up and one went over to be lead of the nutrition section. We had each other's back and it made life their bearable. Slowly but surely though I was losing support from management due to new co managers every couple of months and a new store manager. I became jaded and hated the bull**** that kept getting added to my list as my department hours were cut. My sales numbers only grew though understanding what flavors of things sold the most and what the customers preferred. Around Christmas we were selling 90k items a week with 6 employees, 3 were full time and it was wearing on me. My backup took a promotion to grocery manager overnight that I didnt want. Grocery was a whole other beast and I didnt want to take that step and end up a lifer. That was my thought anyways. I was happy for him and thankfully the new guy who came in was my age and another hard working bro. So I repeated the steps, trained him to be me, better than me and we ran that ****. But The holidays were hitting and I was nearing the end of my rope with district manager bull**** visits and constanlty having to fluff **** up for no reason. One day I had it. Now I wish I could say I had the balls to just walk out but I couldn't do that to my team and im just not that kind of guy. I quit the second of the new year after being there for 3 years and it was the best decision of my life. My mental health was suffering, I was exhausted to have a social life, and the inconsistent schedule was horrible. All in all I learned a lot from kroger and the retail industry. I realized I needed a bigger purpose to my life than just filling poeple belly with dairy everyday, fighting to keep that kroger department look every week, continuing the cycle of suck.
I told my story to say this, if you work hard and create relationships and build trust with people you can go far. The few good people out there will notice and want to help you. Weay take advantage of that and watch out for them but I could have gone a lot higher of I chose to. The opportunity is there if you work at it. Its not the job I wanted in the end and im glad I realized it. KROGER DOES SUCK. But if you need the job you need the job, might as well do your best learn what you can and make some relationships on the way. 594.
Fake news
You know what is funny? If it is Fake News you wasted your time reading it.
2013. Out of high school I had no idea what to do, college wasn't in the plans for me so I got a job at my local kroger. Drug/Gm stocker for 7.25 an hour. First real job on the books other than manual labor. I didn't mind. I worked my ass off, got fast where I could and had extra time to work on where I struggled. I learned CAO as best I could. The ins and outs that VERY FEW people actually know. It made things a little easier but above all it made it look like I knew what I was doing, and I kinda did. Slowly my whole department moved on and I was the senior other than the lead. So I took on the responsibilities of a back-up, not getting paid for it but people took notice. I took it seriously and always had pride in my work. After a year of being there I got my official bump to back-up of Drug/Gm. I did half the ordering and trained new people, did overnights for promo isle ect. The whole 9 yards. I always tried to be friendly to my fellow employees, get some face time with the store managers and become the guy they called on if they needed something done. In this time I saw about 15 different co managers come in and out. (Our store was a training store). The co managers really didn't know much and were pretty lazy standard management type. 2 store managers had cycled in and out as well. Slowly the resentment for co managers rose. I knew how to do everything in my department and knew the back room like the back of my hand, how to run everything, where the keys were to the back door ect. Eventually a position opened up for dairy lead. Now our dairy department did ridiculous numbers, second biggest dairy department in the district. D8. Texas. In a growing area and the only grocery store for about 10 miles in the area. I didnt know much about dairy, but I knew how to unload trucks, write orders clean ect. So I said **** it and went for that ****. I let management know I was interested and they said they would consider it and moved me over to a dairy. I started off just getting familiar with the procedures, the truck times and order times and where the most time was spent and needed. (Managers were doing the orders). Now I didnt have the job yet and there was 2 other people who were already in dairy and gunning for that position. 1 was the son of a district manager. Didnt matter, I went in there and acted like I was running the place. Being proactive and proving I had what it took. 2 weeks go by and I actually got the position. The other 2 guys were so salty but they knew I did more than them and I proved it. Being given the reins and shown roughly what to look for when ordering and the fast movers ect. The numbers in cao were all jacked up, bringing in to much product and not enough of another. Allocations being off from store remodel. So I went in at the numbers. Section at a time slowly getting everything relatively correct again. Now while doing this I had a good relationship with some other hard working stockers. They saw how I went up and they had the drive to do the same. So (and this is my secret) I trained them to be me. Explained everything I was doing and why I was doing it, had them shadow me on orders and explained cao to them, printed out cards with the hotkeys for the hand helds. Did EVERYTHING I could to get them on my level and even beyond me. I told them if I could move up they could to and I would do everything I could to help them if they stuck it out with me. Now that helped me as well, I could have them do orders, fix numbers, unload trucks ect. Pretty much everything it takes to run a department. We always hustled, busted ass and were in it together. I always asked my guys if they had anything they thought we could do better and actually valued their opinion. One of them became my back up and one went over to be lead of the nutrition section. We had each other's back and it made life their bearable. Slowly but surely though I was losing support from management due to new co managers every couple of months and a new store manager. I became jaded and hated the bull**** that kept getting added to my list as my department hours were cut. My sales numbers only grew though understanding what flavors of things sold the most and what the customers preferred. Around Christmas we were selling 90k items a week with 6 employees, 3 were full time and it was wearing on me. My backup took a promotion to grocery manager overnight that I didnt want. Grocery was a whole other beast and I didnt want to take that step and end up a lifer. That was my thought anyways. I was happy for him and thankfully the new guy who came in was my age and another hard working bro. So I repeated the steps, trained him to be me, better than me and we ran that ****. But The holidays were hitting and I was nearing the end of my rope with district manager bull**** visits and constanlty having to fluff **** up for no reason. One day I had it. Now I wish I could say I had the balls to just walk out but I couldn't do that to my team and im just not that kind of guy. I quit the second of the new year after being there for 3 years and it was the best decision of my life. My mental health was suffering, I was exhausted to have a social life, and the inconsistent schedule was horrible. All in all I learned a lot from kroger and the retail industry. I realized I needed a bigger purpose to my life than just filling poeple belly with dairy everyday, fighting to keep that kroger department look every week, continuing the cycle of suck.
I told my story to say this, if you work hard and create relationships and build trust with people you can go far. The few good people out there will notice and want to help you. Weay take advantage of that and watch out for them but I could have gone a lot higher of I chose to. The opportunity is there if you work at it. Its not the job I wanted in the end and im glad I realized it. KROGER DOES SUCK. But if you need the job you need the job, might as well do your best learn what you can and make some relationships on the way. 594.
Fake news
You know what is funny? If it is Fake News you wasted your time reading it.
2013. Out of high school I had no idea what to do, college wasn't in the plans for me so I got a job at my local kroger. Drug/Gm stocker for 7.25 an hour. First real job on the books other than manual labor. I didn't mind. I worked my ass off, got fast where I could and had extra time to work on where I struggled. I learned CAO as best I could. The ins and outs that VERY FEW people actually know. It made things a little easier but above all it made it look like I knew what I was doing, and I kinda did. Slowly my whole department moved on and I was the senior other than the lead. So I took on the responsibilities of a back-up, not getting paid for it but people took notice. I took it seriously and always had pride in my work. After a year of being there I got my official bump to back-up of Drug/Gm. I did half the ordering and trained new people, did overnights for promo isle ect. The whole 9 yards. I always tried to be friendly to my fellow employees, get some face time with the store managers and become the guy they called on if they needed something done. In this time I saw about 15 different co managers come in and out. (Our store was a training store). The co managers really didn't know much and were pretty lazy standard management type. 2 store managers had cycled in and out as well. Slowly the resentment for co managers rose. I knew how to do everything in my department and knew the back room like the back of my hand, how to run everything, where the keys were to the back door ect. Eventually a position opened up for dairy lead. Now our dairy department did ridiculous numbers, second biggest dairy department in the district. D8. Texas. In a growing area and the only grocery store for about 10 miles in the area. I didnt know much about dairy, but I knew how to unload trucks, write orders clean ect. So I said **** it and went for that ****. I let management know I was interested and they said they would consider it and moved me over to a dairy. I started off just getting familiar with the procedures, the truck times and order times and where the most time was spent and needed. (Managers were doing the orders). Now I didnt have the job yet and there was 2 other people who were already in dairy and gunning for that position. 1 was the son of a district manager. Didnt matter, I went in there and acted like I was running the place. Being proactive and proving I had what it took. 2 weeks go by and I actually got the position. The other 2 guys were so salty but they knew I did more than them and I proved it. Being given the reins and shown roughly what to look for when ordering and the fast movers ect. The numbers in cao were all jacked up, bringing in to much product and not enough of another. Allocations being off from store remodel. So I went in at the numbers. Section at a time slowly getting everything relatively correct again. Now while doing this I had a good relationship with some other hard working stockers. They saw how I went up and they had the drive to do the same. So (and this is my secret) I trained them to be me. Explained everything I was doing and why I was doing it, had them shadow me on orders and explained cao to them, printed out cards with the hotkeys for the hand helds. Did EVERYTHING I could to get them on my level and even beyond me. I told them if I could move up they could to and I would do everything I could to help them if they stuck it out with me. Now that helped me as well, I could have them do orders, fix numbers, unload trucks ect. Pretty much everything it takes to run a department. We always hustled, busted ass and were in it together. I always asked my guys if they had anything they thought we could do better and actually valued their opinion. One of them became my back up and one went over to be lead of the nutrition section. We had each other's back and it made life their bearable. Slowly but surely though I was losing support from management due to new co managers every couple of months and a new store manager. I became jaded and hated the bull**** that kept getting added to my list as my department hours were cut. My sales numbers only grew though understanding what flavors of things sold the most and what the customers preferred. Around Christmas we were selling 90k items a week with 6 employees, 3 were full time and it was wearing on me. My backup took a promotion to grocery manager overnight that I didnt want. Grocery was a whole other beast and I didnt want to take that step and end up a lifer. That was my thought anyways. I was happy for him and thankfully the new guy who came in was my age and another hard working bro. So I repeated the steps, trained him to be me, better than me and we ran that ****. But The holidays were hitting and I was nearing the end of my rope with district manager bull**** visits and constanlty having to fluff **** up for no reason. One day I had it. Now I wish I could say I had the balls to just walk out but I couldn't do that to my team and im just not that kind of guy. I quit the second of the new year after being there for 3 years and it was the best decision of my life. My mental health was suffering, I was exhausted to have a social life, and the inconsistent schedule was horrible. All in all I learned a lot from kroger and the retail industry. I realized I needed a bigger purpose to my life than just filling poeple belly with dairy everyday, fighting to keep that kroger department look every week, continuing the cycle of suck.
I told my story to say this, if you work hard and create relationships and build trust with people you can go far. The few good people out there will notice and want to help you. Weay take advantage of that and watch out for them but I could have gone a lot higher of I chose to. The opportunity is there if you work at it. Its not the job I wanted in the end and im glad I realized it. KROGER DOES SUCK. But if you need the job you need the job, might as well do your best learn what you can and make some relationships on the way. 594.
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You know what is funny? If it is Fake News you wasted your time reading it.
Wtf makes you think I read any of that lol
If you did not read it you have no business calling it Fake News.
2013. Out of high school I had no idea what to do, college wasn't in the plans for me so I got a job at my local kroger. Drug/Gm stocker for 7.25 an hour. First real job on the books other than manual labor. I didn't mind. I worked my ass off, got fast where I could and had extra time to work on where I struggled. I learned CAO as best I could. The ins and outs that VERY FEW people actually know. It made things a little easier but above all it made it look like I knew what I was doing, and I kinda did. Slowly my whole department moved on and I was the senior other than the lead. So I took on the responsibilities of a back-up, not getting paid for it but people took notice. I took it seriously and always had pride in my work. After a year of being there I got my official bump to back-up of Drug/Gm. I did half the ordering and trained new people, did overnights for promo isle ect. The whole 9 yards. I always tried to be friendly to my fellow employees, get some face time with the store managers and become the guy they called on if they needed something done. In this time I saw about 15 different co managers come in and out. (Our store was a training store). The co managers really didn't know much and were pretty lazy standard management type. 2 store managers had cycled in and out as well. Slowly the resentment for co managers rose. I knew how to do everything in my department and knew the back room like the back of my hand, how to run everything, where the keys were to the back door ect. Eventually a position opened up for dairy lead. Now our dairy department did ridiculous numbers, second biggest dairy department in the district. D8. Texas. In a growing area and the only grocery store for about 10 miles in the area. I didnt know much about dairy, but I knew how to unload trucks, write orders clean ect. So I said **** it and went for that ****. I let management know I was interested and they said they would consider it and moved me over to a dairy. I started off just getting familiar with the procedures, the truck times and order times and where the most time was spent and needed. (Managers were doing the orders). Now I didnt have the job yet and there was 2 other people who were already in dairy and gunning for that position. 1 was the son of a district manager. Didnt matter, I went in there and acted like I was running the place. Being proactive and proving I had what it took. 2 weeks go by and I actually got the position. The other 2 guys were so salty but they knew I did more than them and I proved it. Being given the reins and shown roughly what to look for when ordering and the fast movers ect. The numbers in cao were all jacked up, bringing in to much product and not enough of another. Allocations being off from store remodel. So I went in at the numbers. Section at a time slowly getting everything relatively correct again. Now while doing this I had a good relationship with some other hard working stockers. They saw how I went up and they had the drive to do the same. So (and this is my secret) I trained them to be me. Explained everything I was doing and why I was doing it, had them shadow me on orders and explained cao to them, printed out cards with the hotkeys for the hand helds. Did EVERYTHING I could to get them on my level and even beyond me. I told them if I could move up they could to and I would do everything I could to help them if they stuck it out with me. Now that helped me as well, I could have them do orders, fix numbers, unload trucks ect. Pretty much everything it takes to run a department. We always hustled, busted ass and were in it together. I always asked my guys if they had anything they thought we could do better and actually valued their opinion. One of them became my back up and one went over to be lead of the nutrition section. We had each other's back and it made life their bearable. Slowly but surely though I was losing support from management due to new co managers every couple of months and a new store manager. I became jaded and hated the bull**** that kept getting added to my list as my department hours were cut. My sales numbers only grew though understanding what flavors of things sold the most and what the customers preferred. Around Christmas we were selling 90k items a week with 6 employees, 3 were full time and it was wearing on me. My backup took a promotion to grocery manager overnight that I didnt want. Grocery was a whole other beast and I didnt want to take that step and end up a lifer. That was my thought anyways. I was happy for him and thankfully the new guy who came in was my age and another hard working bro. So I repeated the steps, trained him to be me, better than me and we ran that ****. But The holidays were hitting and I was nearing the end of my rope with district manager bull**** visits and constanlty having to fluff **** up for no reason. One day I had it. Now I wish I could say I had the balls to just walk out but I couldn't do that to my team and im just not that kind of guy. I quit the second of the new year after being there for 3 years and it was the best decision of my life. My mental health was suffering, I was exhausted to have a social life, and the inconsistent schedule was horrible. All in all I learned a lot from kroger and the retail industry. I realized I needed a bigger purpose to my life than just filling poeple belly with dairy everyday, fighting to keep that kroger department look every week, continuing the cycle of suck.
I told my story to say this, if you work hard and create relationships and build trust with people you can go far. The few good people out there will notice and want to help you. Weay take advantage of that and watch out for them but I could have gone a lot higher of I chose to. The opportunity is there if you work at it. Its not the job I wanted in the end and im glad I realized it. KROGER DOES SUCK. But if you need the job you need the job, might as well do your best learn what you can and make some relationships on the way. 594.
Fake news
You know what is funny? If it is Fake News you wasted your time reading it.
Wtf makes you think I read any of that lol
If you did not read it you have no business calling it Fake News.
**** up @sshole I can call it whatever I want. Just like the people here know you as the fake news posting derp
