Been noticing lately how Kroger seems to have cycled back to forcing their employees to greet customers, smile and ask how they're doing.
Nobody naturally wants to do that. People as a species suck too much these days.
One kid who'd just done that forced march with me went back to work, and I expressed my sympathy and told him what bullsh!t I think this is that they have to do it.
He agreed with me and vigorously thanked me for understanding; told me about how since this policy, he's had several creepy old men stalking him, one tryna follow him to his car after his shift.
There's 1 or 2 trolls on here who're gonna instantly start in with this topic; go ahead. I'm not talking to you. The rest of you who really deal with this------I feel for yaz.
I agree. The most I'll say is 'hello.' If the customer wants to make small talk, that's fine. But most customers want to get their groceries and go about their day.
They come up with dumb scripts, insist that we read them to each and every "customer" (bum, whatever). Then it gets forgotten with the rest of their bs. For a while we were ordered to escort every customer everywhere while interrogating them sneakily about what they planned to use the useless crad they were asking for, so we could companion sell and maybe share their personal information with management or something? Ughh.
They come up with dumb scripts, insist that we read them to each and every "customer" (bum, whatever). Then it gets forgotten with the rest of their bs. For a while we were ordered to escort every customer everywhere while interrogating them sneakily about what they planned to use the useless crad they were asking for, so we could companion sell and maybe share their personal information with management or something? Ughh.
Are you serious? That is literally insane. They would run off every customer in the stores in my town! Or there'd be a fight in produce before noon!
I desperately want to. Im looking at other jobs atm and waiting for a call back.
I advise going to your nearest government job /education assistance facility and start with getting career conselling. These people are very good at getting you set on a new, better path----and our tax dollars are paying them, so there's no fee! There are many different career paths other than retail. Like:
* Health care (CNA, LPN, dental tech, phlebomist)
* Building / factory trades (welding, pipe fitting, plumbing)
* CDL (over the road, local (doesn't pay as much as OTR, but still very good wages)
* State jobs, like a corrections guard at a state DOC.
These are all relatively easy things with just a little training / no college degree required, and can be a life changer for you.
