High school students beware - Cashier Kroger Employee Review

2.0
Jan 11, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

You make at least 10 dollars an hour The union

Cons

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."

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Cons

- Crazy schedule. You will be either scheduled to work a 7-5, 12-10, or a 9-7 depending on the location. And even when the schedule is posted for the period it typically changes week to week, so do not bother making plans. And get ready for 5-10 closes in a row then opening the next day. -9 times out of 10 you never get to use your earned time off due to circumstances at the store you are assigned to. And yes, you will lose them they do not accrue. -If you are lucky enough to be assigned at a store with a strong store manager then things are different, but if not, get ready to blamed for every failure of the store, even when the labor model continues to be cut to the point that you are lucky if you have 2 people in a department and someone from corporate walks in and wants to know why the departments are not set. -Endless micro-managing. Your day is mapped out what you should be doing verses what you know you should be doing. It is check the box that that the "task" is completed when in fact there is no one to complete it, except you. Ergo that is why many just "fudge" it.

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