KROGER SICK DAY SCANDAL

A post titled "The way kroger treats its employees" opened with a simple note: "From the store manager."

Then came the part that widened the scope. In an edit, the writer said the message had been sent by each store manager to all employees in "district 1 of the ohio Cincinnati/Dayton division," with the caveat that it could have reached "potentially other districts as well but i can only verify my own."

The manager didn't identify the store. "I'm not going to give my specific store number for obvious reasons," they wrote, adding that store information could still be found on Google.

From there, the post shifted into workplace specifics. According to the writer, the employees are represented by UFCW: "We are unionized by UFCW." They said, "they allowed this recent change," presenting that as their understanding of how the change was approved.

One line in particular became a focal point: "Kroger has no accrual for sick days." The post was responding to what it described as confusion or criticism around that policy, and the manager stated plainly that there was no sick-day accrual like some people had claimed.

As comments and accusations piled up, the poster pushed back on the idea that the whole thing was made up for outrage. "Those who think this is rage bait," they wrote, before adding: "i dont think anyone has to fake a post to make a billion dollar company look bad, they do it to themselves."

That was the tone throughout: a store-side account, shared without naming the location, aimed at employees across at least one district of Kroger's Cincinnati/Dayton division. The writer insisted they were only speaking to what they could verify themselves, but said the message had come from management and gone out broadly. The result was a post that landed as both an internal snapshot and an online flashpoint, with the manager standing by every line they chose to share.