Submitted by ricanballer2312 on Mon, 05/15/2006 - 12:46am.
I start working in kroger about 6 months ago, I was supposed to work 15 hrs i think, BS, they have me work for 31 hours and even 36 hours.
Im only 16 and i go to school, and im a "curtesy clerk"
My only complaint is that they have me sacking and doing the damn carts outside.
im suppose to get promoted and i have talk to the one that makes the schedules and she told me to talk to the manager.
The first thing that i did was asking her if i can be a cashier, she told me that if i wanted to be a grocery clerk which is stocking i think. U GOT TO BE 18 FOR STOCKING.
I don want to say that kroger suxs because maybe in your "kroger" they treat you betta. I live in Tx. Fort Worth
The thing that really pissed me OFF was that we got a new curtesy clerk. He never do carts outside, all what he did was just sack. He is a damn lazy SOB, and then he got promoted...WTF...I aint kidding...my kroger sux a**.
Last but not least, They have me and some of the damn curtesy clerks do the bathrooms...that really make me mad as f***//IN MY DAMN KROGER THEY NEED TO HIRE SOME JANITORS...FOR REAL...sometimes the damn bathrooms are nasty, If you know what i mean.
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Submitted by uniongurl on Fri, 04/23/2004 - 5:05pm.
This week marks the first week of Kroger Michigan stores using the new fingerprint timeclocks, in their latest barrage of worker surveillance equipment. The first wave of worker surveillance equipment installed were the surveillance cameras all over the stores, next the garbage lockouts, and now the fingerprint timeclocks. Kroger is becoming more and more of a "Police State" or "New World Order" and is violating our civil liberties and our constitutional rights, I belive, and it is intolerable.
Well this manager had to quit his job to get a better one that would enable to obtain custody of his young child, and they brought in someone new. When you start working for Kroger they ask you to fill out a form that says what days and hours you are available to work so they can schedule the staff correctly. The new manager, Lisa, apparently lost or threw out all the records on file though.
Lisa made every employee fill out these forms again, which I did not mind, but she kept 'losing' the forms, and scheduling people when they could not work. I personally had to fill out this form four times. A friend of mine who was also a cashier had to fill hers out at least three times.
I wrote a check for $20.57 to Kroger. The check bounced and was returned. Less than two weeks later, the check was run through again and was paid. Approximately 10 days later, I have a mysterious charge to my account for $29.00. I inquired at my bank, Compass Bank, and they said the $29.00 was a pre-approved debit from Kroger. I never approved or was informed of this debit. This violates state and local laws.
I bounced two more checks because of the "illegal" debit to my account. One check written for $25.00 and another for $2.48. Compass bank covered the second bounced check and charged me a fee of $32.00 for each check. I am also being charged $25.00 for the first returned check from the payee. The consequintal damages total $89.00. The punitive damages total $50.00. A grand total of $139.00.
Leland of Farmington Hills MI (8/4/01):
On Saturday August 4th about 12:30pm I went grocery shopping at the Krogers near my house. A bottle of wine was marked $10.99 but the sign below it said $5.99 ($5 off) in bright red letters with Kroger Plus card. At the counter I was charged the full $10.99. I did not notice it until I was leaving.
When I reviewed my slip I went back to their customer help desk and showed the person behind the desk the mistake. After waiting for 2-3 minutes for someone named Dan, who she called on the intercom, she went back to check the price herself. About 3 to 5 minutes later she returned and informed me I had misread the sign. I went back found the sign and brought it to her. Then she refunded the $5 difference. I said doesn't the law require 10 times the difference plus the amount. She said not for wine. I said are you sure and she gave me another $5.
I said this is not right the amount is 10 times. She then said that Kroger wasn't the one responsible for the sign but the wine distributors had put up the sign. It was clearly on a yellow card with Kroger printed on it. At this time I left because by now an additional 20 minutes of my time had been taken up at this store. What is particularly disturbing is that many items in this store are not clearly marked. Many items are not marked at all!!