Author: Olivia

Was shopping at two separate national grocery chains in the US during the past week, one for grocery pickup and the other for lane checkout after work. I don’t typically tip for everyday duties, but the grocery pickup folks loaded my car in freezing weather and the checkout had a bagger that loaded everything quicker than I could finish my transaction. I was grateful in both cases and wanted to show my appreciation. “I can’t accept that – I’m hourly” was the response I literally received from both of them. They also held up their hands like I had a knife pointed at them. The pickup person looked back at the building and up at the camera. “If they see me take that then I’ll be fired.” At checkout, the cashier immediately looked back and said “He’s right, we can’t do that, we’re hourly” like he needed backup and reiteration…

This was dead ass on a job advertisement. Tell me you want to make your employee’s lives revolve around YOUR business without telling me flat out. Minimum wage gets minimum loyalty and minimum effort. I said what I said. If you have a history of your workers not trying, not showing up, or having a bad attitude…. 90 percent of the time it’s because you bred an environment that’s unbearable to be in.

It's a factory, 12 hour days. They say they provide boots. I worked union before where I got $100 voucher to use on their boots so I'm thinking this is what's happening. They expected me to wear used boots that who knows how many other people have sweated in. They also would not allow use of own personal boots. So literally the only option was to wear their used work boots. I most likely wouldn't wear work boots of my good buddies that I know have decent hygiene, let alone complete strangers sweating in them 12 hours a day for idk how long they've been passed around for. That union needs to get off their ass. That is absolutely disgusting and it can't be sanitary. Probably end up with some foot fungus. Hard pass.

“No one wants to work anymore”. I had a job interview on Monday and the owner of the business I was interviewing with, said that to me. As soon as those words left his mouth, I lost all interest in the job. I mean, I'm there for a job interview, and I'm not the only interview you have, so clearly people want to work. So if you find that people don't want to work any more, maybe you should consider that there is something about your business model that doesn't benefit the workers.