Author: Olivia

So today I tried to check out at the register at CVS. Store associate told me I had to use the self service checkout. I had cold medicine and various other items and this wanted two transactions (one for HSA debit and the other). So I left and went to a different CVS as it wasn’t really out of my way. At that store the guy checking me out told me it’s now corporate policy to steer customers to self service and he’s been written up for checking people out. So yeah, we’re at the point now that corporations are actively trying to fire people for doing their job because it’s cheaper to offset that cost to the customer. Fuck CVS.

Anybody heard of this? Saw an instagram comment saying that there is a current growing movement where these folks will not make any purchases for the entire first week of July to protest corporations and their role in current inflation. I can’t find anything else about it, but looks like it could be an interesting move.

As a frequent reader here I can’t help but notice the heavy concentration of US based posts. I figured out why this morning reading r/Ukrainianconflict . A poster was complaining about the “far right ultra nationalist PiS party” in Poland. Curious, I googled them. This is their economic platform according to Wikipedia: “The party supports a state-guaranteed minimum social safety net and state intervention in the economy within market economy bounds. During the 2015 election campaign, it proposed tax rebates related to the number of children in a family, as well as a reduction of the VAT rate (while keeping a variation between individual types of VAT rates)….. PiS supports state provided universal health care.” The “far right” in one of the most conservative countries in Europe is more progressive than most of our “progressives.” I know the phrase goes “liberal in the US is conservative everywhere else,” but it’s…

Mine actually happened off the clock. I'd just finished up a 60+ hour week with a manual labor warehouse job (volunteering for extra shifts to be a “good employee”), and drove out to the river for some swimming before I went home. I'd been looking forward to it all week, the sun would be out and the temperature was perfect. I was only in the water for an hour before being completely exhausted. all that labor, all that “company dedication”, andd I couldn't even properly enjoy my leisurely outing. Since then, I'll do what I'm obligated to, and nothing more

Started a new job beginning of last month, as a merchandiser/salesman for a large corporation. Advertised hours on job posting were 5-130. Haven’t worked a week under 50 hours yet, last week four out of my five days I skipped my thirty minute lunch break in order to be done by 4’o clock. Sent out on my own after one week of training, expected to know what displays to build, take down, location of product and to know how to condense new product and back stock upon entering the store for the first time in my life. I’ve never been in these stores before, I don’t know the managers, receivers. Nothing. I’m expected to communicate with them? I don’t even know when their shift starts, or who they are. I barely have time to work the six+ pallet loads, let alone set up a completely new display. It’s overwhelming, it’s…

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