I’m going to preface the point of this post by letting you know where I stand on the big topics. Like most of you, I am pro-union, against capitalism, for socialism, for universal healthcare, all the stuff that we as a society should have figured out by now. But I do have a legitimate question that may not be popular in this sub.
How does everyone feel about legit bad employees? I know this is vague, so I’ll give more context. I work in a produce department in a grocery store. We are a union store (UFCW). We have great healthcare at a great cost…this is the biggest plus for my job. We have paid holidays. We get time and a half for anything over 8 hours or 40 hours on the week. Non-union store managers have all been pretty cool overall. Our current upper management does stupid shit in my opinion but overall is not too overbearing (at least for now I guess). The rate of pay is decent but you need to get merit raises or full-time to be able to afford living in this fucking country (USA). So it’s okay overall but due to our shitty fucking system of capitalism, it’s still not amazing.
Myself and almost all of my coworkers get along great and we try to do our jobs well enough that we don’t fuck each other over. We’re a busy store, so there is like 15-16 of us that work in the produce department. There is one person, however, that does the absolute bare minimum. Kisses management’s ass and is the second highest on the seniority for our department. I’m all for sticking it to the capitalists and the owners of our corporation, but when you do absolute shit work in a grocery store, your coworkers are the ones who pay for it. We can’t all just do shit work all the time. We will either get transferred to a slower store, written up, etc. Maybe I’m looking at this situation totally wrong but just wanting to get everyone’s feedback on this one.