Author: Olivia

I'm not even sure I'm right to be upset. But recently I had one of the worst days working as a cashier. And surprisingly it had nothing to do with the customers. Though there was one angry one, it wasn't directed at me. No, it's my assistant manager. To start with. A customer wants to return a shredder. And I say no problem. But my assistant manager must have thought she was buying it. Because lately anytime anyone comes up with an electronic that we can sell them on a protection plan. She's either asking someone else to take it or is taking it herself. Because she has no faith in me selling the plan. I'm not that great I guess. Anyways that's not the case. The customer also wants to know about another shredder and do other stores carry it. I look it up and then check our inventory.…

I couldn't afford to finish community college and felt like a failure then. Standing up for myself and quitting a harmful job, not being able to find work immediately put me in debt with three major credit companies, all whom are now taking me to court. My checking account keeps being put further into overdraft. My last job was in a industry not federally regulated and I was discriminately forced to resign. I haven't been able to get consistent work since, and have been trying to start more freelance work thats up my alley but I can't even afford the medication or health services to be able to just focus on work and make money I desperately need to survive. My car registration just came up which is a cherry on top to what I need to pay. I've had to rely on those who choose to help me and…

I understand that all the profit gets sucked up to the share holders instead of people doing the actual work but if I keep up what I'm doing with the market I may not have to have a “real” job. I might be able to free myself from this bullshit. I do not want to be rich I just don't want to spend my life toiling for scraps.

But I’m still pretty close with a few people that are at this company and was told something pretty fucked up imo. So, The company was already pretty poorly staffed (due to indescribably bad scheduling) and to prevent the company from having to close a store down for a day it was pretty common for a manager to be there from open to close alone. I found out from one of them that there’s a b.s. policy being implemented. The new policy is something along the lines of if you’re a manager (could be extended to front end employees too, I’m not sure) you need to pick up your phone at any random point during the day or night (even during your vacation) and they said covid would not be an acceptable excuse to not answering the call. Like, You’re home hacking up a lung or out of town on…