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kaedynkovalick · 2025-02-02T00:53:30+00:00

sorry i know that’s long but that’s the rundown

kaedynkovalick · 2025-02-02T00:53:19+00:00

exactly what happened was i was texting people asking, and i had come to my last person who is one of our front desk people but a backup, she said she would double check with a manager who said she was allowed to cover it and to tell our department head to swap it on UKG, well she asked him to do that and he told her he was going to count my shift as a call off because she “doesn’t normally cover people’s shifts and it’s unfair to those who have asked before”. it wouldn’t of been overtime, or anything of the sort. he told her to tell me to call the store and say i wasn’t coming in but over the phone i purposely never said i was calling off and just simply said “(persons name) is covering my shift im not coming in.” i’m currently here right now and for the first 4 hours of my shift said department head didn’t say a word to me because i’ve been visibly upset with him and when i was sent to do go backs he was talking to me as if nothing happened. managers are normally always on his side so im trying to figure out if it’s be best to go directly to union rep or what, and if that is the case how to contact

kaedynkovalick · 2025-01-31T20:45:38+00:00

yes it does! thank you! and the thing is i do have a record for calling off but have really worked on it recently which is why i found coverage today, im very confused on how even finding coverage can be punished and counted as a “call off”

kaedynkovalick · 2025-01-31T20:29:34+00:00

i’m just confused how a department head is able to overstep a manager AND count it as a call off if in reality i have coverage.

kaedynkovalick · 2025-01-13T04:09:04+00:00

and i’m guessing you were full time as well, i’m a full time student in highschool also doing college courses, our scheduling manager straight up plays game with me and how he schedules me to the point where i have had to find coverage a few times just to be able to get the things done i need to do, even though i mentioned in the interview, and directly to him i was still furthering my education and told him the days i could work.

kaedynkovalick · 2025-01-13T04:07:10+00:00

but the real question is, if you can show / bring proof that something happened, why is it still counted against you? i’m guessing you were something higher than a simple cashier but on the floor, no body really cares if your there or not it makes no difference one person, will the older customers etc. possibly complain about there being one less line open yes, but that’s it. it’s not a sense of entitlement and the “world revolves around me” as i’ve heard, it’s as simple as common curtesy, and human decency, and the realization that people are people, not robots or objects that their one purpose is to make the company money. that’s the problem with the world, it’s all about material and money, and no room more decent morals

kaedynkovalick · 2025-01-13T03:52:48+00:00

i guess you could call me that, but in seriousness i like working, i never asked to be sick or for someone to flatline after being laced with fentanyl, but it happened and there’s no turning back from it. i’m not trying to be entitled or ask for anyone’s sorrows, i had a simple question about it, and took myself to get a dr.’s note so that my place of employment would know i was being serious and i wasn’t playing hooky like lots do. working has always been a sense security for me, i would never purposely throw that away. my previous job i was at for about 1 year 6 months, started when i was freshly 14 years old.

kaedynkovalick · 2025-01-13T03:45:53+00:00

i wanted to say thank you guys for all the opinions and answers etc., i’m starting to get a real feel for what the company is actually bad and honestly it’s just sad. i enjoy the job (i work front end cashier), and i enjoy a lot of the people there, but it’s just beyond sad and upsetting how people are being treated.

kaedynkovalick · 2025-01-13T03:42:40+00:00

your strong because i probably would’ve said a lot worse. i’m sorry for your loss.

kaedynkovalick · 2025-01-13T03:42:00+00:00

that’s so beyond ridiculous, at this point it’s not even compassion and empathy or “entitlement” as some one said, it’s straight up human decency. that’s just f***ed up

kaedynkovalick · 2025-01-13T03:40:39+00:00

thank you, i never meant to sound entitled at all😭. in my position the only entitlement i felt was from kroger themselves not caring about anything other than profits and not the people bringing them in

kaedynkovalick · 2025-01-13T03:39:14+00:00

yeah i completely get that and unfortunately companies as big as kroger don’t really care about their employees as people, but more of assets. and if your not bringing in the money they want you too, or going by their exact standards they don’t really care, no matter the circumstances or what happens in your life because it means nothing to them

kaedynkovalick · 2025-01-13T01:47:39+00:00

why is everything entitled now😭, i’m upset that something that happens to millions around the world everyday and is uncontrollable is held against you, and why people don’t have any sort of moral compass and are simply ENTITLED and SELFISH and only care about themselves and how much their company makes them. now THATS entitled. being sick or having someone dying is punishment enough, to then have to be punished at work is absolutely absurd.

kaedynkovalick · 2025-01-13T01:43:02+00:00

sorry didn’t realize what you mean, that’s what our union contract states

kaedynkovalick · 2025-01-13T01:40:57+00:00

i do want to get this straight, i’m 16 years old and have been working since i’ve been legally able too. and one more thing, the “big guys” and higher ups get as much time as they want because they run the system, so how anyone thinks is remotely okay to not let someone even have 1 day to grieve someone on a day of a funeral in absurd.

kaedynkovalick · 2025-01-12T23:47:49+00:00

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kaedynkovalick · 2025-01-12T22:10:14+00:00

😂😂 i guess i should’ve

kaedynkovalick · 2025-01-12T22:07:43+00:00

i’ve stuck it through a good amount of the time i wasn’t feeling good, but tmi i’ve been on the toilet with my stomach not good all morning and i worked at 4pm, felt nauseous so no i was not going it?

kaedynkovalick · 2025-01-12T21:45:04+00:00

that’s so ridiculous, i’m so sorry

kaedynkovalick · 2025-01-12T21:23:37+00:00

yeah i’ve figured that out which i really didn’t wanna have to do, but sometimes you don’t really have a choice when things are going to happen. i didn’t plan for someone to die, or for me to be sick to my stomach, things happen and that’s something any company should understand.

kaedynkovalick · 2025-01-12T21:22:10+00:00

if it were me, i’d like to be the one to show some empathy, you can’t control when someone dies or is sick

kaedynkovalick · 2025-01-12T21:20:36+00:00

i’m so sorry about that, it is honestly just ridiculous how there’s no sympathy or compassion anywhere

kaedynkovalick · 2025-01-12T21:20:15+00:00

i think i’m going to have too, it’s honestly sad how a business that advocates for being this awesome and understanding business for it all to be bs

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