If you wanna do nothing, here's your job! - Bagger Kroger Employee Review

3.0
Oct 1, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

People who were full time and higher up (like cashiers, customer service people) had decent benefits. You can pretty much walk around the store all day and not even get in trouble. The weekly pay is good and I made more than I do at my current job, which is kind of pathetic since my current job is supposed to be better.

Cons

I was on probation for a month just because I was a new hire. I was a bagger and I was under 18 at the time, so the managers and people in charge of us talked down to us. When I went to get carts, I was forced to go out numerous times and the other people I worked with only had to go out once or twice. The higher ups tend to pick one person per pointless job and then hammer them when they don't do it to their liking. I was one of the only ones who did my job, so I was given more responsibility. However, I was also expected to pick up the slack when the others were goofing off, which wasn't fair. No one ever pointed out that they were doing anything wrong, just called their names over the loud speakers. Working as a kid in high school is also not a very good choice, especially during exam times.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Great benefits at a reasonable cost. First year you get 2 weeks vacation, 5 PTO days, and 5 Health and Wellness days. Loved the hourly (union) people I worked with at various locations. They become your second family

Cons

- Crazy schedule. You will be either scheduled to work a 7-5, 12-10, or a 9-7 depending on the location. And even when the schedule is posted for the period it typically changes week to week, so do not bother making plans. And get ready for 5-10 closes in a row then opening the next day. -9 times out of 10 you never get to use your earned time off due to circumstances at the store you are assigned to. And yes, you will lose them they do not accrue. -If you are lucky enough to be assigned at a store with a strong store manager then things are different, but if not, get ready to blamed for every failure of the store, even when the labor model continues to be cut to the point that you are lucky if you have 2 people in a department and someone from corporate walks in and wants to know why the departments are not set. -Endless micro-managing. Your day is mapped out what you should be doing verses what you know you should be doing. It is check the box that that the "task" is completed when in fact there is no one to complete it, except you. Ergo that is why many just "fudge" it.

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