Smith's Food and Drug a division of The Kroger Co. Poor treatment of employees Evanston, Wyoming

I ran across this and am glad to see someone else telling the story about Smith's in Evanston.  I agree with everything 100%.  I am not with the company anymore myself and a huge part of that is my horrible experience there.  In my career I've worked for top-tier companies like the corporate offices of JCPenney, CNA Insurance, and Beal Bank.  I have always loved each and every job and had a great experience with my jobs and managers.  That is until I started at Smith's.  Being a Kroger store, I thought it would be a good place to work.  I actually came to like Toni as a store director over the course of time, even though she wasn't always fair from the standpoint of listening to your side of the story.  She always took what Larry or Des said as gospel truth.  I have been accused of things that simply were not true but felt powerless to defend myself because of the way things were at the store.  Larry has got to be the worst manager I've ever worked with by a long shot.  He has no respect for employees and every other employee said the same thing.  He talks down to people and acts like he is so superior.  He always walks around glaring at people.  On more than one occasion, he was rude to my wife and glared at her when she was shopping.  No matter what I did, it was never good enough.  It did not matter that customers really liked me and constantly complemented me on the service I provided.  Providing excellent customer service did not seem to matter.  I definitely had my morale crushed by him.  Unfortunately, I did allow that to hurt my own speed at the register, but I did build it back up just before leaving.  And, boy did Larry ever play favorites.  I prefer to not say anything negative about the new CSM, but he was definitely treated like the golden child.  One Friday during a huge rush of customers, Larry took the new CSM for a 3 hour walk around the store...all the while Larry had only scheduled 2 cashiers and 2 baggers.  Do you think I would get a thank you for keeping things going despite being incredibly short-handed...Nope.  Ever get a complement for all the things I did well...Nope.  I always took pride in a job well done.  I have my performance evaluations from my other jobs that always rated me as exceeding expectations.  I did a much better job than I was ever given credit for at Smith's.  Des in HR was also basically mean to employees also, which was ironic considering she was human resources.  It all boils down to Smith's being a total nightmare experience for me, and apparently many others.  One thing that was painfully obvious at Smith's in Evanston also, if you grew up in Evanston and were from a family that grew up there, you were treated so much better.         

"Perry brags to employees about his regular marijuana usage and about being able to beat the drug test."

If you want change, be the change.

Don't stand by and let a no good drug abuser believe he is at the top, when he isn't. After all, he's just a manager at a food & drug store. Let this be known to upper management and get him out of there. If they fail to do so, then go above the management there!

You're being treated poorly because you choose to be treated poorly. Take the initiative and do something about it.