Don't be this desperate - Produce Clerk Kroger Employee Review

2.0
Aug 21, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Aside from being 100% unemployed, there really aren't any pros for working at Kroger. Perhaps, the other people you work alongside make it bearable - for the most part - if there has to be a "pro".

Cons

They lie upon signing your employment papers, in telling you that you HAVE to belong to the union in order to become employed with them. However, MI is a 'right to work' state, and since I had no intentions of doing anything I would lose my job over, I didn't need a lackluster union rep to defend me. Especially not at $8.15 per hour. Therefore, I expressed my concern over having to sign that particular form, but was made to sign it "or else". I asked that my feelings and statement be noted for the record. I have since learned I did not have to join, and have been trying to get out of it - and be reimbursed for the exorbitant dues they've extracted for the past several months. Not a happy place to be employed. Not a particularly friendly or associate-encouraging place to be. Very cut-throat atmosphere. The upper management are bullies (they play favorites) - most notably the head store manager. It's a very demeaning place to be.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Great benefits at a reasonable cost. First year you get 2 weeks vacation, 5 PTO days, and 5 Health and Wellness days. Loved the hourly (union) people I worked with at various locations. They become your second family

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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