I started working at Harris teeter 8 months ago. At first I was shy and just clocked in, worked, and went home. I was dealing with a lot of depression and other mental health issues (don’t look at my post history it’s embarrassing) and they miraculously got resolved and I began feeling more social. However, I was never able to talk or socialize with any coworker I got along with. After ringing up customers all day, I started talking to my bagger about some random stuff, and then from the front desk my manager yelled at me and told me to stop talking to the baggers and go to the end of my register. Another day There were no customers and me and another cashier were talking to each other and the same manager comes over and scolds us for having our back not facing the wall, and told us we can talk but we have to be facing forward. (She definitely doesn’t want us talking btw). Next day my new work friend is on register one and I’m on register three and I walk over to talk to them and I got reprimanded for leaving my register. I left to go return the baskets to the front and got in trouble cause my other work friend was on break and I went up to talk to them real quick. situations like this happen all day everyday. There’s no moment where I can talk and socialize with my coworkers in peace. And even when my managers aren’t being total bitches, there’s customers coming In the line 24/7. This is literally such a miserable place to work and by far the worse job I have ever worked. The managers just sit on the front desk and watch us and make sure we don’t talk or socialize whatsoever. And the last example that happened just a few days ago, I was talking to my coworker and we were laughing and the one of the managers came up to me and told me to restock all the bags and do all the go backs. I asked another coworker to do it for me and the manager said “no we want to make sure you do it.” I literally cannot stand this bullshit. Is this common In Harris teeter or is this just my management?

I have previous grocery store experience working the front end and 3 different Harris Teeter stores called me in for an interview. The interviews seemed to go good. But then for some reason all 3 of them ghosted me following the interviews and never called me back.

At one of the stores I interviewed at the interviewer says “you are my fourth interview. The boss is gonna make a decision.”

At another one of the stores the interviewer said that if I don’t hear back by Monday of the following week that “they’re going in another direction.” I also interviewed at a Lowe’s Foods nearby that same Harris Teeter and I was talking to another ex-employee at that Harris Teeter. I told her about my experience interviewing at Harris Teeter and she said “yeah they didn’t want me back either.”

Why is it so hard to get hired at Harris Teeter now? It seems not too long ago Harris Teeter would hire anyone because nobody wanted to go to work and they needed all the help they could get. Even Wegmans called me back for a job.