I recently I worked for a large company, as a sandwich artist. I say recently, because I quit after the first day.
Now, the work itself wasn’t bad. The pay could’ve been better, but it fit the job. The problem, however was parking.
You see, this individual branch was in a city. Not a large city, but large enough to be considered a downtown. There was minimal parking, and what parking there was, was paid.
I didn’t think this would be an issue at first. Employees of this branch were directed to use a specific parking garage almost two blocks away, and to purchase a parking pass for said garage. The parking pass is $75 a month. Turns out, however, the company doesn’t reimburse the employees.
$75 dollars to park is an entire days work. The base per hour was 12, with an added 3 dollars extra per hour average, from tips.
To make all of this worse, the assistant manager/shift lead told me that only they get reimbursed. Regular employees don’t. I couldn’t justify working for that kind of greed.
Even if it is a local policy, that’s completely unfair. Not to mention, literally 45 seconds outside of the downtown area, there’s marshes for miles. No residential areas except right in the middle of the city… which is small. I’m not even sure who they’re catering to