Antiwork

I am in sales for a large company. I was on a video call with a customer who was introducing me to a person I had not met previously, turns out she was new at this company- just six weeks in. The conversation turned to the fact she was about to be on a preplanned vacation and her manager (also on this call) made it a point to say how he got all these emails from her the night before. She laughed and said yes, I stayed up until 2am answering all my emails so I could go on vacation. Can you imagine?? Six weeks into a new company and she is already working beyond anything normal working until 2 am on something as mundane as emails??? Work is broken.

I work at a well known sandwich chain in southern California, the starting and ending rate is $15 per hour with tips. I actually get paid ok because I live in a vacation city where tips are ingrained in the culture, I get paid well because we have no other employees. Recently we had a homelesscwoman with several kids work with us for a few hours a day so she could have some income on the books to help with potential housing, she was living off of hotel vouchers. The point of my post is that when she would work mornings thru the lunch rush I would let her keep the cash tips, I am not a manager btw. You can't yield your cc tips because they are built in. The owner of the franchise who has three stores also works with her some days and with me on my…

I hate it when this question gets asked during an interview. I'm like, I don't even know what the state of the world will be in 3 to 5 months. With a plague still going around, the Ukraine conflict, the terrible state of the economy, etc. For all I know in the next 3 to 5 months everything could be hunky dorry. Or I could be crawling my way out of the ruble fighting off mutant scorpions or dying to radiation positing after the events of World War 3.