very. we don't even have enough employees to cover the basic shifts open, like 3 people short. still we are getting yelled at by corporate left and right. oh also, no OT. corporate and management is so out of touch. there are no workers and they continue to treat us like garbage.
very. we don't even have enough employees to cover the basic shifts open, like 3 people short. still we are getting yelled at by corporate left and right. oh also, no OT. corporate and management is so out of touch. there are no workers and they continue to treat us like garbage.
Well if you people would stop vaping/smoking every 35 mins, stay off your phones, Stop texting, wandering around the store, taking three 15 minute bathroom breaks and stop playing fartnite!! Thats why nothing gets done. All the yelling and demeaning words are warranted. associates dont even know what a good days work even means. Pathetic!
very. we don't even have enough employees to cover the basic shifts open, like 3 people short. still we are getting yelled at by corporate left and right. oh also, no OT. corporate and management is so out of touch. there are no workers and they continue to treat us like garbage.
Well if you people would stop vaping/smoking every 35 mins, stay off your phones, Stop texting, wandering around the store, taking three 15 minute bathroom breaks and stop playing fartnite!! Thats why nothing gets done. All the yelling and demeaning words are warranted. associates dont even know what a good days work even means. Pathetic!
A former lead in my department is a bipolar OCD passive-aggressive "mean girl" workaholic... who is still secretly running the department. It's a literal nightmare. I have nightmares about working.
We are understaffed by half.
With a customer at the window every thirty seconds, I am interrupted every thirty seconds from whatever I was working on. Twenty minute jobs can take more than three hours.
It hit 117 degrees the other day.
It's psychological and physical torture. I just walk back and forth, hour after hour, mile after mile, accomplishing nothing. The difference between me and Sisyphus is that I get to buy booze after eight hours.
Speaking of that, every day is a struggle with alcoholism.
I'd drink on the clock, except I'm dehydrated, worried that it would ruin drinking for me, and I'm severely worried about getting ran over. It's bad enough sober. Every single cone we have is covered in tire marks, there's tire marks on the freezers, there's tire marks on the dumpster bay doors, and there's close calls more often than I would like. You can pick out who's going to buy cigarettes because the nic fit makes them drive like maniacs.
Recently, I've offended a psycho. You ever have that customer that makes you start cussing when you see them? You know, every single they come up, there's a problem? He's one of them. Every time he comes here, there's an issue. This guy, I overheard him telling my coworker with the big chest about his struggle overcoming his brain aneurysm. Great, he's brain damaged.
Anyways, I'm at the point where it hurts to look at customers, let alone look at their faces, let alone in the eyes. And he came up. It hurt too much to look, so I didn't recognize him.
He slammed the tray on my fingers, and I was pissed off and hungover, so I slammed it back. His finger got a booboo.
He cussed at me before the transaction, during the transaction, and after the transaction. He complained at the store. He came back later, told my coworker that he's going to get me fired, and that he's going to physically assault me the next time he sees me outside of the kiosk. I believe it.
I've started carrying a pistol.
I don't have enough savings to quit while I look for a better job. And even that's a struggle since I need more than a few drinks after work.
I'm worried I'm going to have to shoot a psycho, and hopefully before he beats the hell out of me.
very. we don't even have enough employees to cover the basic shifts open, like 3 people short. still we are getting yelled at by corporate left and right. oh also, no OT. corporate and management is so out of touch. there are no workers and they continue to treat us like garbage.
Well if you people would stop vaping/smoking every 35 mins, stay off your phones, Stop texting, wandering around the store, taking three 15 minute bathroom breaks and stop playing fartnite!! Thats why nothing gets done. All the yelling and demeaning words are warranted. associates dont even know what a good days work even means. Pathetic!
Mr. Troll do you have anything good to say?
What are you stupid? I see it all the time. Im sure youre one of those worthless associates who plays fartnite or takes selfies of yourself for A date a fatty site
A former lead in my department is a bipolar OCD passive-aggressive "mean girl" workaholic... who is still secretly running the department. It's a literal nightmare. I have nightmares about working.
We are understaffed by half.
With a customer at the window every thirty seconds, I am interrupted every thirty seconds from whatever I was working on. Twenty minute jobs can take more than three hours.
It hit 117 degrees the other day.
It's psychological and physical torture. I just walk back and forth, hour after hour, mile after mile, accomplishing nothing. The difference between me and Sisyphus is that I get to buy booze after eight hours.
Speaking of that, every day is a struggle with alcoholism.
I'd drink on the clock, except I'm dehydrated, worried that it would ruin drinking for me, and I'm severely worried about getting ran over. It's bad enough sober. Every single cone we have is covered in tire marks, there's tire marks on the freezers, there's tire marks on the dumpster bay doors, and there's close calls more often than I would like. You can pick out who's going to buy cigarettes because the nic fit makes them drive like maniacs.
Recently, I've offended a psycho. You ever have that customer that makes you start cussing when you see them? You know, every single they come up, there's a problem? He's one of them. Every time he comes here, there's an issue. This guy, I overheard him telling my coworker with the big chest about his struggle overcoming his brain aneurysm. Great, he's brain damaged.
Anyways, I'm at the point where it hurts to look at customers, let alone look at their faces, let alone in the eyes. And he came up. It hurt too much to look, so I didn't recognize him.
He slammed the tray on my fingers, and I was pissed off and hungover, so I slammed it back. His finger got a booboo.
He cussed at me before the transaction, during the transaction, and after the transaction. He complained at the store. He came back later, told my coworker that he's going to get me fired, and that he's going to physically assault me the next time he sees me outside of the kiosk. I believe it.
I've started carrying a pistol.
I don't have enough savings to quit while I look for a better job. And even that's a struggle since I need more than a few drinks after work.
I'm worried I'm going to have to shoot a psycho, and hopefully before he beats the hell out of me.
How was your day?
sounds Like i386derp is the weirdo pyscho. Just slap him in the face hell lay off
A former lead in my department is a bipolar OCD passive-aggressive "mean girl" workaholic... who is still secretly running the department. It's a literal nightmare. I have nightmares about working.
We are understaffed by half.
With a customer at the window every thirty seconds, I am interrupted every thirty seconds from whatever I was working on. Twenty minute jobs can take more than three hours.
It hit 117 degrees the other day.
It's psychological and physical torture. I just walk back and forth, hour after hour, mile after mile, accomplishing nothing. The difference between me and Sisyphus is that I get to buy booze after eight hours.
Speaking of that, every day is a struggle with alcoholism.
I'd drink on the clock, except I'm dehydrated, worried that it would ruin drinking for me, and I'm severely worried about getting ran over. It's bad enough sober. Every single cone we have is covered in tire marks, there's tire marks on the freezers, there's tire marks on the dumpster bay doors, and there's close calls more often than I would like. You can pick out who's going to buy cigarettes because the nic fit makes them drive like maniacs.
Recently, I've offended a psycho. You ever have that customer that makes you start cussing when you see them? You know, every single they come up, there's a problem? He's one of them. Every time he comes here, there's an issue. This guy, I overheard him telling my coworker with the big chest about his struggle overcoming his brain aneurysm. Great, he's brain damaged.
Anyways, I'm at the point where it hurts to look at customers, let alone look at their faces, let alone in the eyes. And he came up. It hurt too much to look, so I didn't recognize him.
He slammed the tray on my fingers, and I was pissed off and hungover, so I slammed it back. His finger got a booboo.
He cussed at me before the transaction, during the transaction, and after the transaction. He complained at the store. He came back later, told my coworker that he's going to get me fired, and that he's going to physically assault me the next time he sees me outside of the kiosk. I believe it.
I've started carrying a pistol.
I don't have enough savings to quit while I look for a better job. And even that's a struggle since I need more than a few drinks after work.
I'm worried I'm going to have to shoot a psycho, and hopefully before he beats the hell out of me.
How was your day?
sounds Like i386derp is the weirdo pyscho. Just slap him in the face hell lay off
Things have gotten better at this store. Too many people quitting after a week, complaining to the cops, suing. People still leaving now that there are jobs. Company hires and retains harmless dopes, transfers well-meaning nuts from elsewhere so we are working pretty hard. It is still kroger, though. There is always the fear they will send some anonymous friends to beat you anywhere in town. No joke. Stay away.
It varies from store to store. Some stores are better than other.
I transferred away from my last store because we had a couple toxic coworkers. The white blond bit--ches that wouldn't hesitate to throw you under a buss to protect them selves if need be. High school bullies that never grew up basically. The environment got so toxic I developed anxiety attacks from it. When you work with @$$ holes the only way out is to quit or transfer. Due to kroger allowing transfers I transferred. I lasted but 4 months at another store because my white blond bi--tches got replaced by two @$$ hole black bi--tches that were total little mean sob's and that was putting it nicely. Due to manager turn over at that location they slipped through the system before they became aware of their behavioral issues and could realize she was why their store couldn't keep staff.
The nice thing about our new contract (my area) is that everyone minus meat department is considered grocery now. No more bickering about who's out of line and not where they're supposed to be. This generated a lot of turmoil in the store I worked at. Hell you couldn't even pull expired product from deli's shelf without them harassing you over it. Now it doesn't fu-cke-n matter.
Some stores I worked at are more "union" than others. It just depends on how much of a hard @$$ they want to be about the union rules. Now that this is no more I'm glad. I can do more than cashiering.
Short staffing is also another issue. Kroger went back to full time but refuses to give/hire staff hrs for to operate to company standards. Staff is over worked and under paid. We're loosing people due to non-livable paychecks. When people call out it is just that more noticeable when one calls out. The job of 1 individual is now normal the job of 3 individuals. When one person calls out you do the work of 6 individuals.
Our current staff is so over worked that we're calling out due to exhaustion or getting sick because our immune systems is dropping. I mean I called out yesterday due to severe nausea. I mean, really how can the company expect one cashier to handle a third of the store's business ranging from c, b, and a class stores? My sotre is b class and we pull in easily 60k-120k daily. Divide that to a third and each cashier has to do that much work. Our bodies are wearing out and they don't give two sh---its about lessening the load. Instead the company would rather have us old far-ts earning jrny man pay out and replace it with cheaper help. More than once we've had to contact the union to stop our store from giving full 8 hr shifts to new hires while us jrnyman wage individuals got reduced hrs.
I forgot to add on that customers can also be toxic. Due to krogers kiss @$$ policy we had no choice but to sit there and take it. I transferred from my last location because the customers were being mean little sob's and that was putting it nicely. Gone are the days were retail workers got treated with respect.
favoritism is also another issue with this company. seniority, age, wisdom, how well you can do the job. Kroger doesn't give two fu-c-ks about that. It's how well you can kiss @$$ and be a butt kisser for promotions. This is probably the first job where I have not been asked to become a lead or manager after 15 months on the job.
The union has it's pros and cons as well. The union forces the company to hold onto flakes that other wise should of been terminated decades ago. Yet they remain until retirement. It takes 2-3 years to terminate someone because of the union. At my last location I had to work with 3 of the be bi--tches.
I forgot to add on that customers can also be toxic. Due to krogers kiss @$$ policy we had no choice but to sit there and take it. I transferred from my last location because the customers were being mean little sob's and that was putting it nicely. Gone are the days were retail workers got treated with respect.
favoritism is also another issue with this company. seniority, age, wisdom, how well you can do the job. Kroger doesn't give two fu-c-ks about that. It's how well you can kiss @$$ and be a butt kisser for promotions. This is probably the first job where I have not been asked to become a lead or manager after 15 months on the job.
The union has it's pros and cons as well. The union forces the company to hold onto flakes that other wise should of been terminated decades ago. Yet they remain until retirement. It takes 2-3 years to terminate someone because of the union. At my last location I had to work with 3 of the be bi--tches.
Lets settle this once and for all. If you ASSociates actually stocked the shelves,tend to the customers needs by knowing where ALL product is we asked for, stay off your phones, and generally stop smelling like sweet sweaty ASS butt we wouldnt have to be rude. Were are in the right!
1. We were super busy. Everyone and their family was there including their ancestors/forefathers. It was THAT busy.
2. Lines were a HUGE clusterf*ck. We had ALL checkers up front EVEN depts were checking people out in their areas to help us out and get lines down.
3. Limited carts. Customers following other shoppers out to help them put groceries in their cars so they can get a shopping cart.
4. We had loads coming in. Recieving couldnt do anything because they were helping us check.
5. On top of that we had 4 call outs.
6. Wet spills evaporated because no one could clean them.
Where was management among all this? In the office playing with a Woody and Buzz Lightyear action figure making them say "To Infinity and Beyond" over the loudspeaker.
I was asked by a customer to see if management can check. Their response was "tell them to check quicker." Really? Wow. F*cking wow!!
Then when it finally died down, management had the audacity to get mad at us for coming to get them. What they basically heared was this : "Jrjrkdkektcustomersktkrkfkr." I guess Woody and Buzz were important than getting customers out the doors.
I forgot to add on that customers can also be toxic. Due to krogers kiss @$$ policy we had no choice but to sit there and take it. I transferred from my last location because the customers were being mean little sob's and that was putting it nicely. Gone are the days were retail workers got treated with respect.
favoritism is also another issue with this company. seniority, age, wisdom, how well you can do the job. Kroger doesn't give two fu-c-ks about that. It's how well you can kiss @$$ and be a butt kisser for promotions. This is probably the first job where I have not been asked to become a lead or manager after 15 months on the job.
The union has it's pros and cons as well. The union forces the company to hold onto flakes that other wise should of been terminated decades ago. Yet they remain until retirement. It takes 2-3 years to terminate someone because of the union. At my last location I had to work with 3 of the be bi--tches.
Favoritism includes Race and not just how well, but how much the employee could slack off. An PIC moved up the ranks because he slacked off so much. And 16 year old (turning 17) moved up to lead, reached her 1 year and became department manager by age 18. Overheard she was giving someone the favors.
Just as a precursor, all of these issues have been addressed with HR and my union rep and resolved appropriately. But the stress of going through them still stands.
First day after my new transfer, our cake decorator comes up to me and says "Youre the only boy now!" As if being a male bakery associate is "different" I felt completely chastiated and sanctioned as the "only boy" who started in Bakery that day. It was very offensive, and I reported it to the store director. He did have a talk with her about it But since then, I've been stuck on closings Which is basically the "out of sight out of mind" position at our bakery because our oven and prep floor is upstairs.
Excuse me, does my gender matter? Its almost as if you need to be female to be a successful bakery associate, and male to be the same at the meat department? Uh NO
Same day, I got detained by security, because none of the cashiers recognized me. The store director once again apologized for it. But I had to deal with "If I talk to him, and you dont work here, Im putting cuffs on you". In LA, many of our stores have off duty officers that volunteer to come and help us with loss prevention -- but they're never correctly informed by management who and who isn't an employee, so its an absolute nightmare. I make it a point to tell the officer whose stationed working at front end if we have someone new, since the incident.
Some of my coworkers in Deli curse out management and customers in Spanish within earshot and get away with it Being bilingual is sort of a demand in Southern California at any job But its looked past as its not happening in English I had a major issue in the discovery of a Deli Associate saying "Have a nice day!" to a plus sized customer followed by "fallodor de cerdos" to his coworker at the slicer next to him Dont look that up. They got away with it. Unprofessionalism is unprofessionalism regardless if it happens in another language or not.
It makes me miss my old store. It wasnt this bad prior to my transfer, but I moved.
As a subsidiary of Kroger, corporate basically hates us Its been this way all the way through the pandemic and then some
Minimum wage in LA is going up to $16.04 next month. We got the new Ralph's CBA rate, which promised us a raise. The new rate is $16.05 per the contract, or 70 cents for me. So we are one cent above minimum wage now thanks to minimum wage increase. My coworker, a cashier at another store, asked management about it. And "they dont know anything" about a rate adjustment over the minimum wage increase. All Ralph's employees in Southern California basically got screwed out of our wage increase promise. Esentially we all enjoyed a 70 cent raise, for less than 30 days. With no adjustment to our rate over months of contract negotiations to offer better compensation. Now starting next month, we enjoy a whole penny as our compensation. Madness.
its even more toxic working for a Kroger subsidiary. One penny above minimum wage to deal with absolute dogs**t every day.
-- Edited by saber7ooth on Thursday 30th of June 2022 10:52:17 AM
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Ralph's | A Kroger Company
I love big cats
Job Title: Combo Clerk (Service Deli, Bakery, General Merchandise, Courtesy, Grocery, eCommerace Pilot Participant)
Just as a precursor, all of these issues have been addressed with HR and my union rep and resolved appropriately. But the stress of going through them still stands.
First day after my new transfer, our cake decorator comes up to me and says "Youre the only boy now!" As if being a male bakery associate is "different" I felt completely chastiated and sanctioned as the "only boy" who started in Bakery that day. It was very offensive, and I reported it to the store director. He did have a talk with her about it But since then, I've been stuck on closings Which is basically the "out of sight out of mind" position at our bakery because our oven and prep floor is upstairs.
Excuse me, does my gender matter? Its almost as if you need to be female to be a successful bakery associate, and male to be the same at the meat department? Uh NO
Same day, I got detained by security, because none of the cashiers recognized me. The store director once again apologized for it. But I had to deal with "If I talk to him, and you dont work here, Im putting cuffs on you". In LA, many of our stores have off duty officers that volunteer to come and help us with loss prevention -- but they're never correctly informed by management who and who isn't an employee, so its an absolute nightmare. I make it a point to tell the officer whose stationed working at front end if we have someone new, since the incident.
it makes me miss my old store. It wasnt this bad prior to my transfer, but I moved.
As a subsidiary of Kroger, corporate basically hates us Its been this way all the way through the pandemic and then some
Minimum wage in LA is going up to $16.04 next month. We got the new Ralph's CBA rate, which promised us a raise. The new rate is $16.05 per the contract, or 70 cents for me. So we are one cent above minimum wage now thanks to minimum wage increase. My coworker, a cashier at another store, asked management about it. And "they dont know anything" about a rate adjustment over the minimum wage increase. All Ralph's employees in Southern California basically got screwed out of our wage increase promise. Esentially we all enjoyed a 70 cent raise, for less than 30 days. With no adjustment to our rate over months of contract negotiations to offer better compensation. Now starting next month, we enjoy a whole penny as our compensation. Madness.
its even more toxic working for a Kroger subsidiary.
My unsolicited advice
Get away from Ralphs, Get away from Kroger, and (most important of all) GET OUT OF CALIFORNIA. Kroger is corrupt, and its not gonna get better. California is becoming a hell-hole mess and getting worse every day. Soft on Crime, open southern border, rampant homelessness, high local city, county and state taxes, rigid, tyrannical dictatorial governor Newsom leadership, high prices for everything, overbearing governmental regulation, and up-and-coming severe drought and rolling blackouts every summer............... leave CA as soon as you can.
There are other states that have less problems. Yeah, every state has lots of problems but not as bad as California. Texas, Florida, Utah, Idaho, Georgia, Tennessee, Nebraska, Indiana, just some ideas. Good luck! The year-round beautiful weather of California isn't worth all the downsides any more.
Just as a precursor, all of these issues have been addressed with HR and my union rep and resolved appropriately. But the stress of going through them still stands.
First day after my new transfer, our cake decorator comes up to me and says "Youre the only boy now!" As if being a male bakery associate is "different" I felt completely chastiated and sanctioned as the "only boy" who started in Bakery that day. It was very offensive, and I reported it to the store director. He did have a talk with her about it But since then, I've been stuck on closings Which is basically the "out of sight out of mind" position at our bakery because our oven and prep floor is upstairs.
Excuse me, does my gender matter? Its almost as if you need to be female to be a successful bakery associate, and male to be the same at the meat department? Uh NO
Same day, I got detained by security, because none of the cashiers recognized me. The store director once again apologized for it. But I had to deal with "If I talk to him, and you dont work here, Im putting cuffs on you". In LA, many of our stores have off duty officers that volunteer to come and help us with loss prevention -- but they're never correctly informed by management who and who isn't an employee, so its an absolute nightmare. I make it a point to tell the officer whose stationed working at front end if we have someone new, since the incident.
Some of my coworkers in Deli curse out management and customers in Spanish within earshot and get away with it Being bilingual is sort of a demand in Southern California at any job But its looked past as its not happening in English I had a major issue in the discovery of a Deli Associate saying "Have a nice day!" to a plus sized customer followed by "fallodor de cerdos" to his coworker at the slicer next to him Dont look that up. They got away with it. Unprofessionalism is unprofessionalism regardless if it happens in another language or not.
It makes me miss my old store. It wasnt this bad prior to my transfer, but I moved.
As a subsidiary of Kroger, corporate basically hates us Its been this way all the way through the pandemic and then some
Minimum wage in LA is going up to $16.04 next month. We got the new Ralph's CBA rate, which promised us a raise. The new rate is $16.05 per the contract, or 70 cents for me. So we are one cent above minimum wage now thanks to minimum wage increase. My coworker, a cashier at another store, asked management about it. And "they dont know anything" about a rate adjustment over the minimum wage increase. All Ralph's employees in Southern California basically got screwed out of our wage increase promise. Esentially we all enjoyed a 70 cent raise, for less than 30 days. With no adjustment to our rate over months of contract negotiations to offer better compensation. Now starting next month, we enjoy a whole penny as our compensation. Madness.
its even more toxic working for a Kroger subsidiary. One penny above minimum wage to deal with absolute dogs**t every day.
-- Edited by saber7ooth on Thursday 30th of June 2022 10:52:17 AM
woooooow WEE, you seem like the greatest biggest p u s s y I've ever seen! You don't have a p u s s y; you just ARE a p u s s y
Says the softie that won't make an account because they're too afraid to get ID'd :)
*yawn*
Jesus. Not only is the company horrible to its employees so is the trolling on the employee forums. Makes sense I guess.
We really should have to at least give our store number and address out here to register and post... I get why we are not asked for our EUID (thank you for minding policy!) but damn spam control please, thanks.
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Ralph's | A Kroger Company
I love big cats
Job Title: Combo Clerk (Service Deli, Bakery, General Merchandise, Courtesy, Grocery, eCommerace Pilot Participant)
Just as a precursor, all of these issues have been addressed with HR and my union rep and resolved appropriately. But the stress of going through them still stands.
First day after my new transfer, our cake decorator comes up to me and says "Youre the only boy now!" As if being a male bakery associate is "different" I felt completely chastiated and sanctioned as the "only boy" who started in Bakery that day. It was very offensive, and I reported it to the store director. He did have a talk with her about it But since then, I've been stuck on closings Which is basically the "out of sight out of mind" position at our bakery because our oven and prep floor is upstairs.
Excuse me, does my gender matter? Its almost as if you need to be female to be a successful bakery associate, and male to be the same at the meat department? Uh NO
Same day, I got detained by security, because none of the cashiers recognized me. The store director once again apologized for it. But I had to deal with "If I talk to him, and you dont work here, Im putting cuffs on you". In LA, many of our stores have off duty officers that volunteer to come and help us with loss prevention -- but they're never correctly informed by management who and who isn't an employee, so its an absolute nightmare. I make it a point to tell the officer whose stationed working at front end if we have someone new, since the incident.
it makes me miss my old store. It wasnt this bad prior to my transfer, but I moved.
As a subsidiary of Kroger, corporate basically hates us Its been this way all the way through the pandemic and then some
Minimum wage in LA is going up to $16.04 next month. We got the new Ralph's CBA rate, which promised us a raise. The new rate is $16.05 per the contract, or 70 cents for me. So we are one cent above minimum wage now thanks to minimum wage increase. My coworker, a cashier at another store, asked management about it. And "they dont know anything" about a rate adjustment over the minimum wage increase. All Ralph's employees in Southern California basically got screwed out of our wage increase promise. Esentially we all enjoyed a 70 cent raise, for less than 30 days. With no adjustment to our rate over months of contract negotiations to offer better compensation. Now starting next month, we enjoy a whole penny as our compensation. Madness.
its even more toxic working for a Kroger subsidiary.
My unsolicited advice
Get away from Ralphs, Get away from Kroger, and (most important of all) GET OUT OF CALIFORNIA. Kroger is corrupt, and its not gonna get better. California is becoming a hell-hole mess and getting worse every day. Soft on Crime, open southern border, rampant homelessness, high local city, county and state taxes, rigid, tyrannical dictatorial governor Newsom leadership, high prices for everything, overbearing governmental regulation, and up-and-coming severe drought and rolling blackouts every summer............... leave CA as soon as you can.
There are other states that have less problems. Yeah, every state has lots of problems but not as bad as California. Texas, Florida, Utah, Idaho, Georgia, Tennessee, Nebraska, Indiana, just some ideas. Good luck! The year-round beautiful weather of California isn't worth all the downsides any more.
You sound like my front end manager at my last store. Shes had about 15 years. and I don't disagree with you at all. However she points out a problem and this is the core issue. Somebody's got to do this. A mass strike out of retail employees only causes more problems for a state that's already struggling through what it is. The idea is to prolong the fallout if all of us leave right now, what happens to the community when all of the stores close?
Being stuck working for the company is a problem here. Someones gotta. Just be thankful at least a margian of our associates are properly trained. We have been plugging the holes in this sinking ship a long time. Gonna have to go down with it. People gotta eat. Every Insta Carter and Go Puffer has to deliver from somewhere Continuing to do this is a sacrifice And an acnowledgement that if you wont, no one will
Whats keeping me going is at the least knowing my presence here keeps my department clean and passing ecolab inspections you'd be surprised how many businesses here in this city don't have that
Call those of us that do it stupid but at the root of it all, someone has to. Kind of need food to life.
-- Edited by saber7ooth on Thursday 30th of June 2022 01:39:44 PM
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well, my environment probably isnt nearly as toxic as it can be elsewhere, but i still consider it detrimental to my mental health.
i work in the pharmacy and even tho there is camaraderie i dont feel i can trust most of the people working there. i know if i say one thing it spreads from here to there. "there are no secrets in the pharmacy". i personally hate gossip but when others gossip you get sucked in and it's difficult to control yourself. i'm surrounded by people with different values from me
i also hate being told what to do. i ****ed up when i went to college, did not take it seriously and had a bunch of physical and mental health issues, now i have no credentials or marketable skills i'm aware of, so i work at kroger. pharmacists are almost always right even if you trust your judgment more than theirs. they make maybe four times what i make but they complain about their hours getting cut. lol while we try to survive on slavery wages. i get more resentful everyday. i feel like i'm in a zoo. i dont want to speak to people, i see people i grew up with and their parents.
i semi-often think of killing myself, i make no plans to do it but it plays out in my head without my control.
i do get three weeks PTO every year and i can buy one more week, so thats a plus. but i have to work 11 months the rest of the year to get it.
my body hurts a lot but i have to be ready to get up and move and attend to customers and do things i dont want to do. and when ive basically mastered my position im still subject to criticism for somehow doing something wrong. new rules all the time, gotta start doing something weve been doing one way a different way just because
im friendly with some of my co-workers and weve even done things together but there are days when i dont want to talk to anybody at all. if i'm not meditating everyday or really minding my p's and q's then i will be irritable and say or do things that get me in trouble. i'm on vacation but i'll probably get written up for being late a couple of times last week, even tho i'm typically on time and very rarely have called in over four+ years.
well, my environment probably isnt nearly as toxic as it can be elsewhere, but i still consider it detrimental to my mental health.
i work in the pharmacy and even tho there is camaraderie i dont feel i can trust most of the people working there. i know if i say one thing it spreads from here to there. "there are no secrets in the pharmacy". i personally hate gossip but when others gossip you get sucked in and it's difficult to control yourself. i'm surrounded by people with different values from me
i also hate being told what to do. i ****ed up when i went to college, did not take it seriously and had a bunch of physical and mental health issues, now i have no credentials or marketable skills i'm aware of, so i work at kroger. pharmacists are almost always right even if you trust your judgment more than theirs. they make maybe four times what i make but they complain about their hours getting cut. lol while we try to survive on slavery wages. i get more resentful everyday. i feel like i'm in a zoo. i dont want to speak to people, i see people i grew up with and their parents.
i semi-often think of killing myself, i make no plans to do it but it plays out in my head without my control.
i do get three weeks PTO every year and i can buy one more week, so thats a plus. but i have to work 11 months the rest of the year to get it.
my body hurts a lot but i have to be ready to get up and move and attend to customers and do things i dont want to do. and when ive basically mastered my position im still subject to criticism for somehow doing something wrong. new rules all the time, gotta start doing something weve been doing one way a different way just because
im friendly with some of my co-workers and weve even done things together but there are days when i dont want to talk to anybody at all. if i'm not meditating everyday or really minding my p's and q's then i will be irritable and say or do things that get me in trouble. i'm on vacation but i'll probably get written up for being late a couple of times last week, even tho i'm typically on time and very rarely have called in over four+ years.
