Antiwork

Identifying information redacted. I am feeling very disconnected from *** leadership. This was never more apparent then when **** just said in the Q/A session “I hope people are here for more than pay” when answering a question related to compensation. This feels like corporate capitalist gaslighting, and is something I never would have heard before ****. Don’t get me wrong, I love working for **** but my primary concern and reason for having a job is to survive and take care of my family. Company vision is secondary at best. **** understood that. I feel that this statement by **** was severely out of touch with the reality many of us face, and if the rest of the leadership team shares this opinion I am very concerned.*

I'm leaving in two days to go on a 10 day vacation. We haven't been able to do anything for the past couple years, covid and all. We are so worried, as we are leaving Wednesday, that we are going to get sick and have to cancel everything. Flights, rentals, townhouse the works. Monday here and its supposed to be an easy week with training for two days with 6 other people. One of these assholes was puking all day yesterday, feels like shit today, but decides despite policy comes into training. We are all within ten feet of each other and doing hands on. As soon as i found out he was sick I gathered my belongings and noped the f out. Oh, as I'm leaving I'm very verbal about jeopardizing my health, vacation and why is he even there.

My employer raised prices to account for rising costs (i.e. inflation). Sounds reasonable. But it seems their concern was only over the cost of MATERIAL resources, not HUMAN resources, because wages aren't going up. So, while raw materials are worth more than they were over the last couple years I'm apparently worth less. In fact, adjusted for inflation, I'm worth less than I was when I was hired seven years ago. Are you worth less too?

I was waiting for the bus and I noticed someone who was about my grandmothers age mopping up snow customers brought it, clearing snow off carts, and checking peoples receipts at the same time. The first thing I thought to myself is how hard she was working and I felt bad that someone her age had to work in the US. We strike up conversation and she tells me how two asshats told her she missed a spot as she was making sure they didn’t slip. Then she tells me that it’s her birthday and that Walmart didn’t give her time off even when she entered it into the system. I told her not to work too hard and I think I’ll bring her a gift tomorrow. Is there anything more I can do for her?