4 months ago, I got terminated from AutoZone. Since then, I've been able to go back to school and persue my academic goals. I'm moving out, going to a university and soon I'll be making new friends, and using my experiences at that festering shithole as inspiration for me to study the ways in which to dismantle corporate power brick by brick
I know, I know. Punctuality is a good attitude to have, and we all have schedules and deadlines to follow, and some people really have to be on time on the job (like doctors, pilots, nurses). But man, rushing for a low paying shit job so you won’t clock in at 7:01, or else you start getting paid at 7:15, is just another way of exploitation. It happens all the time in the factories and warehouses. The workers are stressed so much to make it on time that it reflects on their driving skills and attitude. Everyone is on a rush. They are forced to drive recklessly or be crammed into the bus/subway. People miss their breakfast, sleep and time with their families. These habits in turn leads to more dangerous driving and a hostile, stressed out community. And for what? For just few minutes missed? For a companies that…
I’m an immigrant. I work my ass off. There is this new office worker. Here is here life plan. She gets a new job. Then, she goes and gets a doctors note to have the ability to take unlimited time off. Then, she waits to get laid off and collects unemployment. The office had to make one phone call to get this info. This affects everyone in the office, not just her. I don’t like working either, but some of you are ridiculous.
I got fired for my mental health today So I got fired today, they’re reasoning was that I had “To many emotional outbursts and was distracting to the trainer and the other class members”. Some context, I was in a 9 week training period for a job. I was doing all the work and was one of the top members in my training group when it came to attendance, performance and scores. This class did not come without it’s bumps, we started out with 18 and by week three had 11 due to one particular student who could not grasp the concept of the job we where training for. And when she was told she was wrong she would get verbal and at on point physical. And then we went down too 8 as some drama happened between certain class members and one quit while one got fired. Now onto…
Additional context would make this more fucked up, but I'm not going to bother. I was thinking no two weeks notice, not gonna go absolutely minimum effort in my work because it effects many people, any other ideas?
Guns bad. Corporations bad. America bad. It's the Republicans' fault
I posted about this earlier in the week. I got SWAMPED with interviews y’all. Those Edits on the original post aren’t even close to accurate anymore, but I stopped updating because I was scheduling interviews like a madwoman. I’ve never been able to get so many cook interviews scheduled within a week EVER. The job market is super duper hot right now at the service industry level, at least where I’m at in the Midwest US. I ended up finally accepting an assistant kitchen manager position for 21/hr, full time with benefits and actual PTO. I walked away from 3 total interviews before I got to this one. None of the other interviewers would start me out at more than 17 (even at a restaurant that serves grass-fed waygu burgers for $24 each!), I got the answer “we are starting everyone at X wage regardless of experience”. I just couldn’t…