Kroger reviews

The union Seriously. The dues cost you weekly. The first hour you work in a given week is just for union dues payment. As a high school student when I worked this job (I was a senior and I am now graduated and in college with a better job that doesn't involve customers splashing chicken juice on me), the managers really didn't respect that I was a student trying to succeed in order to graduate. They'd call me during school hours, on my off days, and threatened me and my other young fellow employees with the idea that if Kroger was busy enough, they could force us to stay an extra hour past hour shift. One day I called off to do a makeup test, and they wanted me to come in after I was done and work my shift which was 6 hours. I got done at 6pm with my test, and needless to say I didn't go in to work to midnight. I didn't go in at all. They also got angry with me on days when I was sick and didn't even go to school and they wanted me to come in to work. Even when I had pink eye, the managers didn't care. I could've infected customers, as I was a cashier who handled food and money and had to be in direct contact with people. It also made them look really bad, because I was quite obviously miserable and diseased. Not to mention the harassment from assistant customer service managers. Waking up on Saturday mornings ( or really any morning of a day I had off) with 3 missed calls, 5 Facebook messages from your manager and, somehow, 726 voicemail messages from Kroger. "Hey this is _____ I was calling to see if you could come in to work today 12 to 8 PM give me a call back as soon as you can to let me know."

Have worked for the company for decades at 40 hours a week, now they are making many of us go to a modified position of 32 hours a week at 80% of our pay. This is retail and corporate does not care about its employees, only about meeting metrics and their bottom line. There is already a problem with understaffing and trying to meet all the goals they set forth, now cutting hours is going to make all of that impossible to accomplish, especially from disgruntled employees