Month: October 2022

Yeah I work fast food and I already don’t make a lot, but guys definitely negotiate, and by negotiating I mean threatening to quit!

I was just thinking, so much of grocery store staff, fast food staff, waitstaff, and so many other service jobs are majority teenagers and young people. I am a young people, and as a young people, it’s kindof insane that WE are the people that keep a lot of really essential (or at LEAST essential to consumerist culture) from completely crumpling. A whole ass country that would crumble without the labor of people 20 and under. I was pushing carts today, and was just thinking about how I and a single other person are literally carrying the entire store. Either us, or a couple cashiers or stock dorks or whoever leave, and boom the store literally cannot run. I foresee a chaotic good moment coming from this some time lol

For those who don't know, FIRE means financial independence retire early, it's all about working as much as possible while you're young so you can retire early and be financially free. Ever since I discovered it 5 months ago I've been saving like crazy with the goal of retiring in 15 – 20 years assuming the stock market plays ball. I kinda feel like it's taking over my life in a way because all I can think about is retiring, every month completed is another month closer to retiring. Anyway what's everyone's opinions on FIRE? I can't fucking wait to retire that's all I know.

I was recently hired for a position and during the interview the manager mentioned “raise at 30 days” while going down a line of points. I've worked for the company in the past at a different location and in a different department, but they also did a raise at 30 days back then, so I sort of expected this. A month comes and goes and my manager that hired me has his last day before leaving the company, I make sure to point out I'm due for my 30 day review and he just goes over the paperwork and checks everything off in less than two minutes saying I'm perfect then we move on to a meeting about other things. Since that was his last day, I'm now under a new manager who was not at all responsible for my hiring nor knows anything about it since he was only…

(ETA location: BC Canada) BOH at a kitchen. I love my work and I love my crew, the higher ups (HUs) though…. fucking fuckerty fuckufers. So usually we get a handful of cash twice every month for our tips. HUs decide nah, we want to switch to this dumbass prepaid credit card system instead. Here’s kind of how it works: I get a special credit card that HUs charge up for me to use instead of the tipout. If I need to access this money in any way that is not directly through the card, like if I need cash or if I need to move it to another account to write a cheque with, I have to pay a fee. I have to pay a free to access my own wages. Or I can exclusively use their credit card to shop with. So, never mind employees wanting to use…