Hey all, back with another tidbit from the floral wholesaler.
We just went through the living hell that was Mother’s Day, and throughout the month my company had served us food a couple times as a bonus to the ridiculous amount of hours we are expected to work. My own husband quit because he was expected to work 13 days straight without a day off, even though he was one of the newest hires at the company at the time.
This company makes multimillions a year, and I know this because I’ve seen the profit metrics in my boss’ computer. Plus the amount of profit they make on flower is ridiculous, we buy daisies for .98 cents a bunch and we sell them to our customers at $12.
Anyway, the first meal they gave us was those premade sub sandwiches that you can get from Wal Mart, the giant ones that you cut up. Sandwiches with chips and a salad if you’d like. That’s fine, we got that last year and I expected it, whatever. This last Sunday, as a thank you for making the whole company work on a day they don’t normally work (other than my department) they had food for us again.
This time it was something different. Soft scrambled eggs with sweet rolls (from the grocery store, again) with bacon. Well, my little ol’ small time company specifically stated, by the company owner might I add, that we were only allowed one roll and four pieces of bacon each. And she MADE sure you only got your share.
So many of the people I work with were either neutral or happy about the food, whereas I’m sitting here stunned that this company that makes so much profit has the gall to limit the food we are allowed to have after requiring most of the company to work weeks on end without a day off.