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

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Pros

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Cons

• Some of the senior management was less friendly than others - as to be expected. • Days were very volatile; some could be extremely easy, and others could be a nightmare. • Scheduling was kept rather limited; although I was able to get the hours I wanted, often times management would look to cut hours from departments whenever possible, leaving less support.

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