Kroger reviews

- 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.

1. Don't expect to make much (despite the fact you do more work than basically everyone there) 2. I hate how everyone brings up the "seniority" card for everything. I've been here four years longer than you... it's absurd. I understand that seniority means something, but it shouldn't mean everything. I do more work than you. you take extra breaks without clocking out. You take 50 smoke breaks. And it takes you 6 hours to complete something....so how does this person make 6 dollars more than me?....oh yeah. just because he has been here longer. 3. Why cant i get a raise just because im a good worker and deserve it. But no, you have to work a freakish amount of hours to get a worthless raise of maybe .10 to.15 cents. I think its about 1000 hours to get a raise. That will take me forever to get a raise. I work about 20 hours a week being part time and going to college. 4. Basically what im saying is that after a year and a half im not even making 8 dollars...i wish i could convey to all you how much more work i do than all these people. You can thank the union for that. They keep s**tty workers around that honestly should have been let go several times. And dont even talk to me about how the union fight for me....they do nothing except fight for the lazy people that complain when they get fired. Not to mention that with these union dues i pay every week that im pretty much making minimum wage. NO balance between work and personal life. I have come in on my days off, come in early, and have stayed late numerous times. And do not expect anyone to recognize that or give you anything in return...barely a thank you. Dont expect to request a day off without someone throwing a fit .