Antiwork

I understand that all the profit gets sucked up to the share holders instead of people doing the actual work but if I keep up what I'm doing with the market I may not have to have a “real” job. I might be able to free myself from this bullshit. I do not want to be rich I just don't want to spend my life toiling for scraps.

But I’m still pretty close with a few people that are at this company and was told something pretty fucked up imo. So, The company was already pretty poorly staffed (due to indescribably bad scheduling) and to prevent the company from having to close a store down for a day it was pretty common for a manager to be there from open to close alone. I found out from one of them that there’s a b.s. policy being implemented. The new policy is something along the lines of if you’re a manager (could be extended to front end employees too, I’m not sure) you need to pick up your phone at any random point during the day or night (even during your vacation) and they said covid would not be an acceptable excuse to not answering the call. Like, You’re home hacking up a lung or out of town on…

Went to Chipotle for an early lunch with my kids today and was greeted by a sign: “Due to staffing shortages we will be opening at Noon”. Okay great, more “shortages”, guess we’ll come back another time. Fast forward to tonight, wife and I decided to get dinner there instead. Placed an order online at 5:10pm, showed up at 5:40pm. The doors were locked, yet peering through the glass showed a full crew of staff working furiously inside. One of them saw me standing there awkwardly holding two kids, came up front and opened the door. Employee: “Our system was down and just started working.” (Employee starts taping up “IF WE DON’T HAVE YOUR ORDER CALL xxx-xxx-xxxx FOR A REFUND” signs) Me: “Okay, I ordered online, do you have an order for ?” Two people start looking through the pile of printed orders and can’t find my name. “Sorry but…

so yesterday i felt ill in the morning and i decided to go to work anyway. not knowing i had a 103.4 fever. i was working all day yesterday and my shift ended at 4, they told me i could go home at 3:30 because they saw how pale i was, and i said “it’s okay, i can do this.”. i worked as hard as i could accidentally dropping a fryer basket because i was so weak i couldn’t hold it up with one hand as i can usually do on a day im not sick. obviously. i dropped it back into the fryer and hot oil burned me all over, i looked up and everything started spinning and i fainted. it was about 3:45. i was taken to the ER and they told me i had a fever, which i didn’t know i had, and strep throat. they asked…