Suspended again
Yep, as the great employee I am, I'm now serving my third...that's right, THIRD...supsension in my 5 1/2 year history at Kroger. But this one is much less controversial. I got suspended for excessive tardiness. Because the company instituted a bullshit new policy in August, which I think is rather strict...ESPECIALLY for an effing grocery store. I've now officially been late 6 times since then, which warrants me a suspension. And worse, I'm now on probation, and in the next 90 days, if I'm late just TWO more times I get fired. Sweet.
The thing is, I USED to be late all the time. I mean, literally, all the time. It was such a joke. I was seriously late just about every day for five years. Because it's Kroger, and it didn't really matter. But then this new policy pretty much changed my life. I was slow being able to adapt to it, hence the first 5 tardies, which accumulated quickly. But I hadn't been late in like two months. I had been doing a great job. Just one slip last Friday, which completely wasn't my fault...and here I am. I was at school, being bitched out by my faculty advisor for SMEA in an unplanned meeting. One of those things. And I was late, that one extra time.
It's so stupid. I mean, this company has bigger things to worry about. It's KROGER. It's the bottom of the ladder. We'll hire anyone. There is absolutely no way you can get rejected. I think we hire people McDonald's wouldn't hire. So we have all kinds of problems with employees, like people not showing up with no explanation. We have lost a lot of people b/c they just kind of vanished....they just stopped coming, and we never heard from them again. Often, when we hire a new person, they don't end up ever actually working. Or working for like a week. Then they disappear. I've stopped bothering to learn the names of new people. And there are plenty of people that are totally worthless, and don't do their job. People who are not only not helping the company, but probably hurting it. When Kroger has these kinds of people working for them, why do they worry about people like me, that are late sometimes but otherwise trustworthy? I don't get it.
Whatever. It's a vacation, the way I look at it. This was a great time to get three days off...right before Thanksgiving, when I was dreading how busy we'd be anyway. I'm glad I don't have to work! I was in the middle of working what would have been 7 days in a row. And it sucked. So I'm glad I got out of it! Haha. I won't get paid much this week, but I'll live.
Sure, my dad was completely pissed, but my dad gets really pissed at me no matter what I do, so at this point I'm used to it, and I don't really care. He threatened to kick me out again, but I don't think he'd ever really do it. So, basically, I'm just glad I get a break. See if I care. I've already decided that I'm going to work the system to get a bit more money out of that place this week, to compensate myself for being suspended. Just by taking 3 sick days...on all the days on which I'm not suspended. I think it'll work...the way you request pay for stuff like that at Kroger, they won't think about it. You don't work at a place like that for this long and not figure these things out. Hell, through 3 suspensions now. But this is the shortest one. It's just standard procedure. The other times, it was possible for them to fire me instead of letting me go back to work. But I'm still there!
In other news, Tigger died on Saturday. She was George's dog, so she has been living at my mom's house for pretty much the whole time she has lived there, since 1998. She was kinda by default our family pet. And we had never really had pets before, so this was a big thing. Well, my mom had fish. And we had parakeets in Australia. But those don't count...lol. I mean, they're fish and birds. I don't really understand those as pets. But I loved that dog. She was so sweet and friendly. She was a great dog, and she knew me as the person that was most likely to go outside and play with her. I didn't live with her the whole time, but I knew her for 8 years. So it's sad. She was really old...13, I think. And she had been pretty much deaf and blind for basically a couple years. I knew she was dying, but it still sucks. And I don't ever go to my mom's house anymore, so I hadn't seen her in a long time. Which was really a shame. So that was a bummer.
Well, gotta get up really early tomorrow, and drag my ass to school so I can be there when the Scholastic truck gets there with the books for the SMEA book fair next week. One of the joys of being a president! Guess I'd better get to bed...
The thing is, I USED to be late all the time. I mean, literally, all the time. It was such a joke. I was seriously late just about every day for five years. Because it's Kroger, and it didn't really matter. But then this new policy pretty much changed my life. I was slow being able to adapt to it, hence the first 5 tardies, which accumulated quickly. But I hadn't been late in like two months. I had been doing a great job. Just one slip last Friday, which completely wasn't my fault...and here I am. I was at school, being bitched out by my faculty advisor for SMEA in an unplanned meeting. One of those things. And I was late, that one extra time.
It's so stupid. I mean, this company has bigger things to worry about. It's KROGER. It's the bottom of the ladder. We'll hire anyone. There is absolutely no way you can get rejected. I think we hire people McDonald's wouldn't hire. So we have all kinds of problems with employees, like people not showing up with no explanation. We have lost a lot of people b/c they just kind of vanished....they just stopped coming, and we never heard from them again. Often, when we hire a new person, they don't end up ever actually working. Or working for like a week. Then they disappear. I've stopped bothering to learn the names of new people. And there are plenty of people that are totally worthless, and don't do their job. People who are not only not helping the company, but probably hurting it. When Kroger has these kinds of people working for them, why do they worry about people like me, that are late sometimes but otherwise trustworthy? I don't get it.
Whatever. It's a vacation, the way I look at it. This was a great time to get three days off...right before Thanksgiving, when I was dreading how busy we'd be anyway. I'm glad I don't have to work! I was in the middle of working what would have been 7 days in a row. And it sucked. So I'm glad I got out of it! Haha. I won't get paid much this week, but I'll live.
Sure, my dad was completely pissed, but my dad gets really pissed at me no matter what I do, so at this point I'm used to it, and I don't really care. He threatened to kick me out again, but I don't think he'd ever really do it. So, basically, I'm just glad I get a break. See if I care. I've already decided that I'm going to work the system to get a bit more money out of that place this week, to compensate myself for being suspended. Just by taking 3 sick days...on all the days on which I'm not suspended. I think it'll work...the way you request pay for stuff like that at Kroger, they won't think about it. You don't work at a place like that for this long and not figure these things out. Hell, through 3 suspensions now. But this is the shortest one. It's just standard procedure. The other times, it was possible for them to fire me instead of letting me go back to work. But I'm still there!
In other news, Tigger died on Saturday. She was George's dog, so she has been living at my mom's house for pretty much the whole time she has lived there, since 1998. She was kinda by default our family pet. And we had never really had pets before, so this was a big thing. Well, my mom had fish. And we had parakeets in Australia. But those don't count...lol. I mean, they're fish and birds. I don't really understand those as pets. But I loved that dog. She was so sweet and friendly. She was a great dog, and she knew me as the person that was most likely to go outside and play with her. I didn't live with her the whole time, but I knew her for 8 years. So it's sad. She was really old...13, I think. And she had been pretty much deaf and blind for basically a couple years. I knew she was dying, but it still sucks. And I don't ever go to my mom's house anymore, so I hadn't seen her in a long time. Which was really a shame. So that was a bummer.
Well, gotta get up really early tomorrow, and drag my ass to school so I can be there when the Scholastic truck gets there with the books for the SMEA book fair next week. One of the joys of being a president! Guess I'd better get to bed...