Kroger reviews

Set schedule with rotating weekends. They don't pay for your experience

No work/life balance! Schedules are supposed to be written one month ahead but management goes in and changes it every other day. Many missed family events and holidays that, in retrospect, I should have called in to go to. The turnover is so high among the co-management position that as long as you don't steal or harass others, you have job security. I was in the management trainee program and the store manager was supposed to train us but he just told us to stop following him around and bother someone else. Therefore, I feel like I have learned nothing about operations. Store managers also get angry when you sit in the office to do REQUIRED paperwork that the district management wants done ASAP. Co-Managers are forced to wait until the store manager leaves for the day or is off before attempting to do any of the piles of work required. Customers are coddled by the "Customer 1st" values and whine/yell to get their way. Store manager gives them whatever they want even when it is against the policies so when he is off for the day, the customers demand the same treatment even though we are not at liberty to give it to them. Overall: Overworked, underpaid, upper management does not care about your life outside of work, if you want to be stressed every day while working 10+ hours/sometimes 12+ days in a row with no off day please apply