I started working at Kroger in April. I won't say what department I am in. One of my supervisors decided that he did not like me for some reason. I take pride in my work and did whatever was asked of me, even things that weren't asked of me. Well they decided to change my schedule without telling me, saying it was put up on the side of a fridge and I had been told about the change. The one supervisor saying he had a text from the other person who makes the schedule saying I had been informed. I was not. That was my first strike. Keep in mind I had not been given a username or password to check my schedule online, hadn't gotten my paycheck even though it was May already, and didn't have a sign in sign out thumbprint, nor a password for the cash register. Then the fun began. I wasn't allowed to take water breaks even though I had a note from my Doctor saying that hydration was important and I needed to be hydrated because of my medication. I also don't get to take my break until after 6pm, even when I get there at 12:30pm. No one ever tells me to go on my break and when my supervisor is there, forget it. My co-workers yelled at me when I took my medicine asking me what I was doing. I tried to ignore them, but they yelled louder until I calmly said I am taking my medicine and walked away. Of course then started the rumors, that I was a ***. Everyone is so homophobic and trans-phobic there, except for two people. I am not a ***. I do not even like women. I am a man who likes other men, but I don't want to come out at work. So one day last week I got "invited" to go get drinks with my co-workers. No one showed up. I drank my drink and went home. Then my co-workers started making false complaints about me saying I refused to do work, that I was reluctant to do work, and that I was being unprofessional aka I was singing. Everyone in my department sings, even the supervisors. Someone even smoked *** in the area where we worked and a guy smoked a cigarette multiple times inside the store right in front of us. They also take samples of the food, which is against the rules. I've even seen them use their birth date to give someone else alcohol who didn't have their id with them that day. So they called me into their office yet again. This makes three times. They called me in twice about the complaints. They said that multiple people complained about me as did customers, and that I was too loud. I didn't know being confident was a crime. I come from a big family so I am used to talking a bit louder. I was not screaming or anything. I just have a commanding presence. I smiled and talked with customers, being respectful and telling them to have a nice day. The people I worked with would talk about sex, yeast infections, menstruation, stds, and *** shamed some girl who caught an std saying I am not sleeping with him because I know where he has been; aka with the girl who was unfortunate enough to catch the std. They bad mouth our superiors all the time, which is ironic because they were the ones who reported me for being "unprofessional". One girl said about one of our supervisors, "He's so strict I can't do anything to please him. If he wants it cleaned a certain way then he can do it his *** self, because I can't please him." So then the last time I was in the office they said that I should take a week off until my medication was leveled again. Well guess who is scheduled for tomorrow? Me. I am not supposed to work until NEXT Sunday. Not to mention as soon as I went home the girl who reported me for singing started a rumor that I had been fired. As far as I know I have not been. She also was complaining about another girl saying she was a *** and such to me. Everyone is negative towards each other. They even call customers *** once they are out of ears reach. I joined the union, but fear it may be too late. They just don't like me because of my gender identity, my outgoing personality, and the fact I take medication. They make innuendos about stuff all the time or plain out just talk about how they *** and wake up, have a drag, and go back to sleep. It is just really dysfunctional. I even have random guys who work there coming near me and looking at me and smiling all *** like because they think I am a ***. I am supposed to be trained in the cash register next week, but they may just let me go. It wouldn't be the first time I've been let go from a job because of my gender identity and disability. I can do my job. I do it well. Some people just don't want to accept anything that is new to them. Also there is a racist, sexist guy who says women can't protect themselves without guns and that the Russians are coming to slaughter us all once we give up our guns, so we must cling to them to survive. He also ranted about the Chinese. I have Russian heritage. I just don't feel safe, but I need a job. Kroger is supposed to protect me from discrimination. It says so in its mission statement. Gender identity, disability, and sexual orientation are all covered under their harassment policy. They need to implement a diversity and acceptance program and not hire people who are discriminatory. The girls who were discussing sex were all omg two women is so weird/gross and two men together is just too much. If they fire me I won't be surprised. I still don't have a cash register sign in or employee discount card.
I asked a half a dozen years ago give or take dorothy lane kettering kroger when they were getting in more of the kangaroo greek flatbread which back at that time was labeled as 'pita' flatbread before the labeling was remodeled. Someone there who I thought was a manager told me that they don't carry the product. I had two in my cart at the time, and he said they were likely to be non ordered items that got placed there as a mistake by the bread people. He told me i'd need to get it added to the corporate order list; and then ask him to stock it after that. It is an item I had been interested in and had just happen to have first seen it at that time so I went through all of that garbage to get run around and ignored for a long bit of time; to learn later that various other kroger stores everywhere stock the same item. And what I was told was clearly a bunch of lies.
The only other time I have dealt with a store stocking an item, it was fairborn store stocking turtlemountain coconut milk icecream. I asked them to stock it since I lived nearby and most other krogers such as kettering and beavercreek had it but it was a longer drive to go there. I asked them if they would stock it since it was already on corp list and other krogers were having luck selling it. I got hastled for at least a couple months with non response responses. Got mad and said, give me a simple yes or no, and I no longer even care what the answer is, and stop responding to me otherwise. They didnt respond but they did stock the item.
I hate the thought of ever asking them to ever stock anything again. But because I like inflicting self mental pain I asked if they mind looking into the turtlemountain seasonal pumpkin nog since they already have been stocking an apparently selling the seasonal regular nog. So hopefully that correspondance works better than the prior 2. But I've already resorted to asking the manufacturer for information on ordering a case; because it would be easiest way to deal with kroger; is to do a one time purchase of a case of product.
Do you really think every store can stock every particular brand of any given item? That is the most self absorbed, stupidest thing I have ever heard!
"Oh, I want this, so someone must make sure I get it, because I don't want to drive to a store that actually carries it". So if you owned a store you would stock every random freaking thing every pain in the *** customer asked for, and then be happy to take a hit on it when the rest of the case doesn't sell? No, you wouldn't! Ninety nine percent of items that are not carried at a store (even though other stores in the same company do) are not authorized for that location.
They cannot be entered into the system and the product is not on a shipment route to that store. Quit being a whiner crybaby and a pain!
Jeez!! Loser!
The pharmacy at dorthy lane Krogers in kettering has the worst service ever after calling ahead to get my script refil filled they say ready in a hour but when I show up 2 hours later they tell me no one filled it and I was told that I had not called? This is anoying and is enough for me to go elsewhere from now on! So disappointing that no one in the pharmacy knows what the *** is going on!!
I am an employee at kroger. I do admit that the response that you received from the workers there was uncalled for and i apologize on their behalf.
On the other hand, you said you asked if they could add a product to the store and they didn't.
Customers always do that but their demands are not always met because there is just not enough customers willing to buy that product. If a company begins to sell an item, and it does not fly off the shells fast enough, they loose revenue.