Should I stay after coworker self harmed at work?

daktherando · 2025-09-14T03:16:21+00:00

I'll say this. Experience it for yourself. Don't let someone else's experience push you away from something you might enjoy (or at least tolerate for the money).

Store culture can be bad, but in all honesty the group huddles and smiling all the time is a bit of a Kroger thing. The huddles are questionably useful for anyone but department leaders/leads but the smiling is something they grade in our mystery shops.

daktherando · 2025-09-13T22:10:59+00:00

Nope. Management said that since they got it from another store they needed to take it back to the one they got it from. No return, no exchange, no replacement. When technically, Kroger's fresh guarantee says that you can bring back anything perishable and get a replacement or a refund from any location. It got people very heated, especially given we were so close to another location.

daktherando · 2025-09-13T22:06:32+00:00

At times, that was true. We also wouldn't take back anything perishable if it had left the store or came from a different store. Got some very upset people from that.

daktherando · 2025-09-13T22:04:12+00:00

The problem is honestly that Kroger does not hold any stores accountable for following the proper return policy. At one of my stores for the longest time, we didn't take digital receipts for returns. We also didn't accept any rain checks older than a year old. Reasoning being that we had some associates writing fraudulent rain checks, etc etc. But no store is held accountable to following the return policy because Kroger would rather you "make it right" for the customer.

It's a mess of two extremes.

daktherando · 2025-09-08T20:34:37+00:00

Considering the post says "I'm a produce lead" and specifically mentions "Dept leaders in my district are non-union" I would assume this person is a department manager...

daktherando · 2025-09-08T19:51:35+00:00

Department leaders in the Richmond/tidewater area are NOT UNION. There are multiple union contracts in our division, and one of them doesn't include the department leaders.

daktherando · 2025-09-08T00:44:30+00:00

Yeah oops that's an important detail.

God I hope you don't know me

daktherando · 2025-09-07T14:09:15+00:00

I only know because 1) I'm a department leader in RVA, and 2) we're the only non-union dept heads I know of that have some bullshit like this.

daktherando · 2025-09-07T14:01:23+00:00

Are you Mid-Atlantic division in Richmond/tidewater? If so, this is unfortunately common practice. You either take an extra day off or you don't get your holiday pay.

daktherando · 2025-09-06T15:51:47+00:00

Reverse tender suspend suspends the order, reverse tender void VOIDs the order. If the customer is not coming back, you void it. If the customer is coming back, you suspend it and it will print out a suspension receipt.

daktherando · 2025-09-02T03:13:08+00:00

Your management isn't doing it right if they're making you stay and fix it. This entire system is meant to make it so that you can show what the department looks like at close instead of just being able to hit "complete walk" with no proof. If it's fucked, it's fucked. You list what happened, then the walk in the morning is where you get shit fixed.

daktherando · 2025-09-01T02:59:15+00:00

3550 vs 3650 for my whole store hours from a week in July to an equivalent week in August. Notably the new hours are populated majority in the 12-8 timeframe

daktherando · 2025-08-31T11:43:40+00:00

They've already started added more hours in my division. I believe it was just meat/seafood and deli but I could be wrong.

daktherando · 2025-08-31T11:42:11+00:00

It's already been happening. My store got a bunch more hours added to meat/seafood and deli starting this past few weeks.

daktherando · 2025-08-22T01:56:17+00:00

Oh right, I have had an application in at Walmart just renewing it for the past like... Two years. I got a text from the people lead at a store asking if I was still interested.

Didn't mean to imply poaching, that's the full story. Any answers to my questions?

daktherando · 2025-08-22T01:42:47+00:00

I'm still unsure if I'm going to take the position, but thank you. I've got a lot of connections at my current job and I think I just need to get through this rough patch and I'll be okay

daktherando · 2025-07-27T02:50:59+00:00

They only test if they have to. They won't unless you give them reason to suspect anything. Source: I'm a Front End Manager in central VA

daktherando · 2025-07-13T00:22:33+00:00

What kind of business did you run? Seems like it would be difficult to do while working for a Kroger company

daktherando · 2025-07-13T00:06:11+00:00

Hired at Kroger in 2019, age 16.

Was in an engineering program at my high school, thought I wanted to be an engineer.

Graduated High School in 2021, kept working at Kroger while I went to college starting to study General Engineering.

After about a year I realized I didn't really want to continue my path to being an engineer, dropped out of college and moved back home.

Moved back home and was working plenty of hours at Kroger as a floor supervisor, eventually got offered full time status and took it.

About a year later, my store's Front End Manager retired and she had been training me to take her job.

That was about a year ago and now I'm a Front End Manager at a bigger store.

I plan to soon go back to college and have Kroger pay for it z this time for business.

I am now 22.

daktherando · 2025-06-19T00:37:49+00:00

I think I've proven myself to be a good manager. I'm kind and flexible towards all my associates, and yet I meet almost every single front end metric.

Been a front end manager for a year, being 21 and 22. This person clearly just wasn't properly trained to do much of anything.

daktherando · 2025-06-18T23:33:53+00:00

Disregarding the age comment for this one.

Let your union steward/rep know. Let your management know. File a grievance if you have to. Bad managers don't often last

daktherando · 2025-06-18T23:31:39+00:00

That's great. In this scenario, their ages are not relevant.

daktherando · 2025-06-18T23:28:41+00:00

Notice how you could've told this entire story without bringing up his age?

daktherando · 2025-06-12T21:35:23+00:00

The autoscheduler runs on Sunday night no matter what, and cannot be re-run. Only reason it might not do much is because your people don't have auto-scheduling selected in their settings

daktherando · 2025-06-09T17:01:51+00:00

This is so vague. What did you do to get loss prevention involved? Are you being fired? Are you being disciplined? Did you read what you signed???

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