Pros
+ They work with your availability such as school + 9/10 chance to get days requested off so long as you notify them within a week + Eventually get consistent work schedule + SOME(typically non-cashiers/baggers) coworkers are great + Time & 1/2 for working overtime and holidays + Paid vacation time (average hours worked through the year) + Nice first job, yes you will put up with some BS but you'll do that anywhere
Cons
- UNION UNION UNION. Protects the lazy, and screws the hard-working. To work at Kroger, you are required to join the UFWC union which requires a weekly payment of $7.99 - Probably 80% of all Kroger managers have no common sense or are corrupt. I'v seen good, bad, and the absolutely retarded. - Union's pay grid. Seniority will hardly increase your wage. $.05 raise every 6 months, $.10 every year. - Most corporate policies/methods/key retailing are like a little child figuring out how to do something right, AKA no common sense. - Managers will ride you and FREAK OUT over the littlest thing - Front-End employees make the store a high-school drama club - Hiring Managers will hire ANYBODY, even incompetent workers who will quit the same week as hired. - Managers will not care to address lazy workers when they're not doing they're job right or fast enough - Minimal career advancement As a final analysis, working at Kroger for your first job is good. It will build your work ethic and working the front-end is mindless work, but you'll have to do with the high school kids who don't know anything but drama. Working back in a department is where it's really at, but your coworkers greatly influence how easy your job will be, in which you'll have a high chance there's at least one idiot with you who you will have to pick up their slack. Also, don't expect to get paid much, ever. If your part-time, Union is your mortal enemy because it's a waste of your money. Full-time it's not so bad if you don't mind the weekly payment.