Unions and Retail
And to go on further with my retail venting today...
I have friends and classmates who used/still do work for Kroger.
Kroger is unionized retail.
Some places are different, but at our Kroger brand store you start out at minimum wage and get a raise every 1,000 hours worked. People who are really good at their job get cross-trained in several fields and are groomed for management if it comes up and if they want it. Those who are related to people higher up also get a pass. But if you are dumber than a box of hammers they will only put up with you for so long and than go out of there way to fire you. In the world today you can be wrote up and fired for anything with a cruel employer. Wasting too many sacks? Write-up! Making sacks them heavy and then breaking on customers? Write-up! You can see where this goes. So that means that for the worker that performs, his job is safe and he gets fast raises and company recognition. For those who don't want more responsibility, or are incompetent they will get rid of you. They don't want a $15-an-hour cashier. Or $16-an-hour plant-moisterizer. So those that want unions had better be a good worker. Because when a company gets unionized, jobs get cut and incompetent people get tossed because the company can afford less and will only take people who will do a honest day of work.
And I have found that those that complain about needing a "Union" the most are the crappiest, unhappiest workers out there. The girl that works the girly-things aisle complaining about needing a "Union." She spends an hour in the break room every day when the allotted time is two 15 minute breaks. She eventually gets fired for not showing up, re-hired and fired again.
The one guy I worked with wouldn't do squat, he got fired for stealing from the company. he needed a "Union" less than he needed an ethics class.
I have friends and classmates who used/still do work for Kroger.
Kroger is unionized retail.
Some places are different, but at our Kroger brand store you start out at minimum wage and get a raise every 1,000 hours worked. People who are really good at their job get cross-trained in several fields and are groomed for management if it comes up and if they want it. Those who are related to people higher up also get a pass. But if you are dumber than a box of hammers they will only put up with you for so long and than go out of there way to fire you. In the world today you can be wrote up and fired for anything with a cruel employer. Wasting too many sacks? Write-up! Making sacks them heavy and then breaking on customers? Write-up! You can see where this goes. So that means that for the worker that performs, his job is safe and he gets fast raises and company recognition. For those who don't want more responsibility, or are incompetent they will get rid of you. They don't want a $15-an-hour cashier. Or $16-an-hour plant-moisterizer. So those that want unions had better be a good worker. Because when a company gets unionized, jobs get cut and incompetent people get tossed because the company can afford less and will only take people who will do a honest day of work.
And I have found that those that complain about needing a "Union" the most are the crappiest, unhappiest workers out there. The girl that works the girly-things aisle complaining about needing a "Union." She spends an hour in the break room every day when the allotted time is two 15 minute breaks. She eventually gets fired for not showing up, re-hired and fired again.
The one guy I worked with wouldn't do squat, he got fired for stealing from the company. he needed a "Union" less than he needed an ethics class.
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