Hey all, I don’t normally ever post at all but this particular incident has just fueled me enough to rant about it somewhere.
A little context, my place of work is a novelty store mixed smoke shop and is quite popular in my area, there’s a lot of other locations in my state and it’s only getting bigger. The CEO, and the managers all love telling their employees that they should treat this job as a career and the usual capitalistic BS that all retail pushes on their employees, even though we make $10 per hour. There is technically commission, which they call our “bonus”, which, I asked what the rate was to which my boss literally said “it’s a percentage”. Which I figured out is about 1.5% sales, for employees only, bosses make way higher. They even limit us, sales don’t go under our name unless it’s about less than $30, and they monitor you and will even send you home if you don’t follow it.
Anyway, a coworker had progressively became extremely ill throughout the shift, to the point where none of us felt comfortable with her driving herself home, as she was violently shaking and throwing up every few minutes – we had about a half hour before closing up shop, so we told her clock out and quit working and try to take it easy, we closed up shop early to help her out. She was adamant that she wanted to go to her dad’s place so he could take care of her because she was horrified of any ambulance or hospital bills. For context, she’s a single mother who barely makes enough for any kind of living with such pitiful pay. Pretty much all of us who work here (asides managers, go figure) barely break even every month, despite all of here working about six days a week because there’s about 4 of us who work here, meanwhile our managers sit quite comfortably.
Anyway, we drive her home and she gets in safely. Fast forward to today, my boss inquired about what happened and I told him the situation, and his first response is, “Why was she still on the clock? She is wasting sales and company time and money, that had to have crossed your mind right?”
Not once did he ask if she was okay or if she was safe.
I said back to him, “I mean no, she wasn’t feeling okay, I don’t really care about company time or money when someone is not doing well, or in general for that matter.”Mans just repeated what he said and I just walked away from him to cool off. She was even clocked out no less and still was going on about it, like what the hell is wrong with you dude!?
It’s an honestly awful place to be, the managers are so money hungry it’s just so sickening. I hate this capitalistic crap we all have to deal with.