Author: Olivia

They had a lot of Terrible and unsafe working conditions and requirements. I quit about a week ago. Feels good.

I graduated a while back and went to my first job at a dollar store as cashier for a part time, I told them it was my first time working, but on my first day whenever I asked how to do something I didn't know about the assistant manager would get short with me. She tells me at the end of the day that she's sorry and that she's had a bad day (she continues to act like this every day I am there). I continue to work for two or so months, and one day, I check my schedule, which looked odd (as in there I am listed to be there everyday) so I call my manager and she is like “sorry honey you don't work here anymore” if you wanted to fire me at least tell me I am fired.

I have a 4 year old girl. My wife and I are constantly looking for things to do on days where it's better to be inside. We've been to two children's museums here in the Tampa area of Florida. Both of them are mainly a smorgasbord board of possible future jobs where children roleplay jobs as a grocery store cashier, veterinarian, fire fighter, dentist, pizza maker, farmer, etc. It didn't hit me until today the kind of damage this is doing to our kids. Calling this a MUSEUM, when it's just centering labor and putting it in the first museum we offer our children to visit. Nothing in it evokes the beauty, wonder, or joy of life, nature, biology, space, art, history, or anything else generally given the important term of “museum”. It just gets children excited about working; the thing that generally takes us away from things typically housed…