Kroger reviews

Very High Stress, constant interaction with aggressive customers, management are conniving and deceitful, Union is completely broken as far as Local 1059 Central Ohio, in both President and members. Hours are being cut so far as to almost destroy every dept, and we all know if you have one lazy person who doesn’t care, (like most dept have more than 1) then the person who actually cares gets ripped. If you’re new, they’ll let them steal, but anyone older than 3 yrs and they will get you for accidentally taking a $1.79 comb(Had to defend a girl as I’m a Union Steward. A real shame). They will put more and more on as they continue to reduce hours in hope of taking in money. They just don’t care at all for either customer or employee. If they cared, they’d fire the lazy nobodies and protect the ones who care and get them the help they need, so that way no one’s going home tired and in danger of falling asleep on the road.

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."