In the words of Abe Lincoln: “Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
Or Loyalty Day if you live in the United States. (Yeah right)
A story from a few years back I just remembered- I'd taken one of my first jobs at a local grocery store chain. Within a month of working there, I'd noticed that the head cashiers had been calling me in a couple times a week, asking me to work unscheduled time because someone had called in. Half of my time spent working there ended up being non scheduled hours due to the frequency of call ins and not scheduling to accommodate for this. So I took it to the store manager one day and explained the situation, and asked that if I'm going to be working all these hours with no notice, I'd like to be compensated for that. All I had in mind was something like the extra $1 an hour thing they did for when people worked Sundays. He looked at me with the most befuddled expression and…
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I went through a few days (2) of training and after hearing about the policies and practices of this place I decided not to work there. Besides training I never worked there. I got this email this morning and replied as follows. This place is located in the most densely populated area in my city and within 10 miles there are so many spas and other massage places. I already work for a place a few blocks away and had before I started training at this hellhole. I just graduated from massage school this year and it's ridiculous that they try to strong hand people that usually are getting their first step into the working world or changed careers to get away from this stuff.
don’t know if this post fits here, but i don’t know where else it would fit best. i’m a semi-recent university graduate with a bachelors degree in the social sciences, and i’m still stuck working retail. the job is fine, the managers are fine, it’s all fine. but i still hate it. this is where the guilt comes in, as i don’t necessarily have any “real” or “genuine” reason to hate the job so much. but it just doesn’t feel fair. the pay is barely getting me by, and even then, there are others getting paid less than me. i spent years in school majoring in a field i’m passionate about and i’m not working anywhere near it. it’s difficult to not get frustrated and just plain sad at the state of things. so i call off, because some days i’ve just had enough. still there’s a constant anxiety this…