Thread regarding Kroger Co. layoffs

Kroger treats employees horrible...not a good Company to work for!!!use to be...hours cuts and more work piled on. Come on Rodney!!!FEED THE HUMAN SPIRIT...SHARE SOME OF THAT BIG BONUS YOU GOT!!!UPLIFT ME!!! THE PUBLIC NEEDS TO BE MADE AWARE OF JUST HOW YOU TREAT YOUR EMPLOYEES....HOPE U GET YOUR TURN

This is very sad for everyone at Kroger 😢😟

A lot of the people being fired were people forced into the asm role with Fred Meyer restructuring a few years back! This is ridiculous!! How can I go to work tomorrow and “feed the human spirit “?

To the one that's going to 'seperate us boomers from our jobs': You'll have to stop s—ling that teat first, "mother" and "mom" are not capitalized in English.

30K people saw this thread in 24 hours. Now, beat that Kroger Corporate Communication Team - it's all unicorns and glitter in the HR world.

I guess those 1+ Billion in tax’s cuts weren’t enough.

How’s that for a trickledown? Cut jobs, then trickle up! Surprised? Not really.

Anyone who believed that should be the first ones fired! This is the world we live in.

Survival of the wealthy and screw the rest.

Hope you’ve saved some money! Sorry!

This is Ridiculous the people defending this company don’t really understand the heartache and stress this has put onto people. My mother had been working for this company since i was born and you throw her to the crib along with other hard working and great managers. But you weren’t looking at numbers or worth that these people were putting in, you were looking at how well they kissed a–. Which is just sad on your part. I’m 22 and am now trying to calm my mother and my father and now I’m trying to figure out what I’m going to do with my insurance since I declined mine at my place of employment due to the fact that I thought my mother would still have her job by the end of the year. But I was wrong. You put a chasm into people’s life’s without thinking of the outcome. You really should have looked at the people instead of your own interests, Im never shopping at Kroger again. Thanks for the heartache,
A strong daughter

It is sad for anyone to lose their job. However, I believe Karma shows up. Can't treat people wrong. I'm glad I made the decision to leave before the nightmare. My shopping will be limited if any. To my friends, hang in there but start looking. I believe this is Round 1. Don't put your trust in Man. God is your source. With God, you will be a winner.
Kroger, you are on your way down.

Unfortunately this the nature of retail. When the numbers are looking bad the first thing that happens is hours are cut and people are let go. I have worked for 5 different retail companies, some international and some regional. There is no loyalty or job security, you are fooling yourselves if you think it is about anything but the $$$.

Kroger is a Great Place to Work it's Simply doing what it needs to survive or it's getting ready to sell off but either way it's helped thousands over a 100 years

I quit the company a little over 2 years in order to pursue my own business.
In the end for me, we have become a “clip board carrying” managers, in which they only want us to be mindless, and heartless robots. Selling Groceries became an after thought.
I did not know it at the one, that I was among the “1st Wave” if managers quitting.
I am thankful that I made my move, instead of enduring the travesty that is occurring now.
Most of the people that are being fired, are some of the hardest working people that I labored with. This is truly sad.

I have been with the company for 12 years, and the last three years has been a living hell. I was physical and emotional drain, I went through depression all because of this company. I was put on depression medication which made it worse. I finally decided to give it up and now I work for an amazing company who cares about there employees. Kroger is absolutely the worst!!!! I feel so so sorry for the associates that still work there.

I spent 40 years as a Store Mgr with Kroger. I had some wonderful supervisors in that time span. I had some wonderful employees in that time span. And yes, I was forced to tolerate some of both that did not deserve to breath air. But overall, I have no major regrets. What really put me over the edge at the end was the fact that the company's path was that it wanted a checklist, clipboard- carrying robot to manage a multi-million dollar business. Not for me bud. I have too much pride in my years of experience and decision-making ability. Someone told me something along the way. The good people that left Kroger had two things in common...1) none have starved to death and 2) they are happier than they have been in their life. There is something to this. My stock options are gone so let the crumbs fall where they may but I think this move will be the demise.

“This is a generational process and I'll tell you – y'all baby boomers making the decisions at the top will get your time. You will be sitting in that seat, being told you are being 'separated from the company' . by us.”

The youngest baby boomers are 55 years old. The oldest are 73. Almost all will be retired and/or dead before your generation is in charge.

This is absolutely ridiculous. I saw two of the best managers I’ve ever worked with getting fired in one day. This is outrageous. The company has declined so much and it’s sickening. Kroger used to be a amazing place, and now it’s just trash.

Do Massive Layoffs Really Benefit Large Companies?

I think that simply cutting jobs isn't the answer.

To be successful, companies need to change how the business is operated.

That is the one reason I don’t shop there anymore. People need loyalty on the workplace n security

I used to work retail. Margins are tight profits are small. Big cost increases due to union contracts mean the money has to come from somewhere. No one wins.

A bit harsh

This is a generational process and I'll tell you – y'all baby boomers making the decisions at the top will get your time. You will be sitting in that seat, being told you are being 'separated from the company' . by us.

Here is an uplifting story, I used to work for Ralphs in So Cal. Started in High School, never went to college. At 32 I decided to change my life, used income from Ralphs to finance my community college study, got an AA in general business, got 3.8 GPA, graduated with an AA at 34. Then I apply for an econ degree at Berkely and bus econ at UCLA, got ito both school, graduated from Berkeley at 38. Got an offer as a senior, it was well over 2x times what I was making at Ralphs. Now, I had no dependents and got lucky, but it did work out for me. I am still at the same job, work for a consulting company and just made a manager (about 5 years into it) - I mostly work on implementing large HR systems to fortune 500 companies, my wish is to work on Kroger one day.

All the best and I am really sorry you have to deal with layoffs - my managers at Ralphs were always great mentors.

Any more uplifting stories??feed that human spirit:/pitiful...

I put in my two week notice twelve days ago and could not be more relieved. I have only been with the company for four years and have seen a rapid decline. Hours are being cut while the work load is piled higher and higher. I was told when I was hired that Kroger offered a good life/ work balance...what lie! I feel terrible for the people who have dedicated their whole career to this company. They need to focus efforts on their in-store employees, the ones who actually interact and serve the customers. Kroger is so worried about things like their "friendly" score(...you'd think all these people who think they're so much smarter would realize that employees who aren't treated well aren't going to have much friendliness to pass on) and thier public image ("no waste, no hunger" is the biggest gimmick ever, just look in a Kroger dumpster and you'll see nothing but wasted food) they need to focus on making the company better from the inside out not the other way around.

Wow! Just mindblown. My Mother has invested 30+ years into this Company and this has been my life, all that I've known. We walk through the stores and know these folks personally. My Mom missed athletic events, homework time, time with all of her children, yet we always respected and valued her passion. . . Kroger. What a shame!

I will tell you this. Our family is large, our network is even bigger and Kroger has lost our business and our respect.

This is a generational process and I'll tell you – y'all baby boomers making the decisions at the top will get your time. You will be sitting in that seat, being told you are being 'separated from the company' . . . by us.

Hey @1oge I had a store manager that was bad too. The big thing was not following corporate rules including pulling people out of their positions without warning (department leads, wet rack, night crew). Then verbal abuse on top of that. He eventually got in big trouble with corporate after enough people complained about him, but not until tons of the people left the store, or switched departments. I was thrilled when I found out corporate forced him to step down. But not so much now that Kroger fires managers for less than that...

Any of the ones that got fired got a severence package. A really nice one in fact. Still I'm not happy with how this company is changing. Its gonna end up just like Thriftway or Rempke. Completely closed or very few stores

Slave for the company for 20+ years, body worn and torn and now they let us go. Horrible!

Kroger does not value the worth of their employees, we are just a numbers. That's why they are so cold-hearted and can do this so close to the holidays.

My store manager in Atlanta was let go. Nobody liked him, he was not nice to people.

As I sit here and wonder if I will have a job come Friday it finally donned on me. How can I continue to work for a company that has done this to so many friends and business acquaintances? I can’t remain loyal to these monsters, my performance as well as my attitude will surely be changed if I’m retained. I also wonder how the people moved up will cope with knowing kroger could do this again.. to them next time. I’m devastated to have given my 31 years to this company for this result. I guess the real question now is, will I walk into that mtg and quit before I hear their decision... I can’t pretend to be happy that people like this kept me! Will I keep them??

Fred Meyer has been forever changed when bought by Kroger. Fred G Meyer would be absolutely appalled at where his company has gone. It’s all about greed nothing else. Very disappointed. Prayers for all who have lost their jobs. God bless.

Started yesterday in Atlanta division

Several let go in the Louisville Division, some dead weight for sure. No leeway for error, it’s a big gamble, because you could have a big exodus with no body to run stores. When is the upper management going to get cut, like presidents and VPs

Honestly I have worked for Kroger on and off in many different rolls and was always treated great. Great company to work for as long as you did your job!!!! However I do know there is a new chief in charge that came from Walmart and we all know that Walmart is all about making money and screw the conditions and the people. Very sad!!! I know in my area none of the stores can afford to lose any people if they want to maintain store conditions

Kroger s—s! They accused my daughter of stealing thousands of cleaning supplies, fired her, sued her, put her down as a no rehire, but as soon my daughter attained one of the most aggressive lawyers in our state, they put her back as a rehire and and the store manager said had he known the asst manager, who hated my daughter, was going to do that to her, he would have fired the asst. They fired her when the store manager was off. He didnt even know she was fired til SIX MONTHS LATER when he asked her why she quit. They told the store manager she quit!!!! Dirty no good company if you ask me.

Sick

Does anyone know if the Pharmacy Division is effected?

Worst place on earth to work. Way to go Rodney...enjoy your millions while you continue to destroy families and some really great people. I will never step foot in a Kroger owned business again.

Michael J. Donnelly. Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Office and Steve McKinney Senior VP:Retail Ralph’s and Fry’s know them both very well.

This was their brainchild for the last year.

Rodney on the other hand recieved a 19% raise to 11.7 million plus a 2.7 million dollar bonus. Way to Feed the Human spirit Rodney!!

Sad. My daughter gave them 20 years. Many missed holidays from family. Constantly being moved from store to store far from her home. Pathetic. I will never step foot in another Kroger