So this last year I've been working for a consulting firm in disaster Relief. My consulting firm often works hand in hand with others.
I was recently let go from a project for requesting access to a shared drive from one of my consulting firms emails which was apparently the wrong one. I don't see how this wasn't just a deny access and then tell me to use my other email….but oh well.
Although it offered no benefits, it brought in about 70k a year. The firm tried to find other work for me but we're unable to do so.
So here we are, two weeks after closing on my house and now have no income. Scrambling to stop the bleeding I swallow my pride and do whatever I can to keep my family afloat.
I started working for Dominos here this past week and it just blows my mind how much my boss has been drinking the corporate kool-aid.
For example, we were recently talking about tips as I'm a delivery driver. He mentioned to me how he doesn't understand why drivers get upset when they get stiffed. It's a gratuity not a guarantee, never ask for a tip.
Granted the problem is more systemic than stingy customers, but this infuriates me. I never ask for a tip, but when the company itself is justifying paying less than minimum wage because tips should be offsetting the difference then I would say tips are expected. Otherwise the company should be paying me minimum wage at all time if tips aren't expected.
Another instance he is venting to me about how kids these days don't want to work anymore. Uhm, no maybe he just found better pay at McDonald's. Kids these days want to be paid fairly for their work and not exploited.
The actual fuck.
Granted this all coming from a dude who still lives with his mother and therefore doesn't have a monthly housing expense… it makes more sense.
Calculating my monthly expenses yesterday to be $3400, I look forward to telling him when I quit…
“I can't afford to continue working at Dominos”
But realistically I don't owe him an explanation. I would feel no guilt for walking away from exploitative jobs and neither should anyone else.
Workers unite, let's fix this broken system.
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