Waste of Time and Effort - Part-Time Cashier Kroger Employee Review

1.0
Nov 23, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Extremely cheap insurance. Paid vacation and personal days after 1 year employment.

Cons

Everything else. Kroger is a joke and a waste of time for anyone over the age of 16! I got this job while I was in college with the hopes of helping me pay for a semester or two. The pay is so freaking low, I could barely survive and was always in the red each month!! You fight for hours. They'd rather higher 30 part time cashiers than 10 full time ones. Some weeks, you'd have 32 hours (still part time) and others, you'd have 16 or less. What grown person can survive on that? In addition, the Union is a piece of crap. I've seen people unjustly fired simply because they were close to retiring. Less money to have to pay out over a lifetime, right? Under my contract, I make a $0.05 raise every 6 months. That's $0.10 a years. I started out at $7.30. After 2.5 years, I make $7.55 an hour. I don't even take home $300 a week after taxes!! No wonder most employees are on food stamps.

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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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