last year I was the assistant manager at a restaurant & I saw one of our Best servers get fired, because turns out our GM found out she had an OF. I did my best to defend her and keep her in the team but nothing worked and I felt so helpless. I feel so bad because I know that she was only doing it for extra income because the job right now kind of pays like shit and no one is hiring.
I hate the fact that when you’re an assistant manager, your manager tries to force you to be a horrible person, instead of caring about your staff and being a support system for them. We live in a society where people literally don’t get paid enough to live so people have to find new ways to bring an income. whatever you do in your personal life shouldn’t actually matter as long as you come to work and you do your job.
It’s so crazy to me that we live in a world where a minimum wage job basically doesn’t pay for anything or help you reset your life. I now understand why people go to such extremes because even getting a minimum wage job, just feels like you’re working 40 hours a week just to pay your rent and not be able to live your life.
we basically made us society where, when you hit rock-bottom its easier to become a sex worker or you get obsessed with hopefully hitting the lottery in the stock market instead of just getting a job because every job feels like it pays like shit. When you hit Rockbottom, getting because when you hit Rockbottom, getting a real job doesn’t actually help you “real job” doesn’t actually help you.
we need a society where, even with a minimum wage job you could get dropped off anywhere in America and within a month you could probably get an apartment and take care of yourself.