#'but the budget' fuck off we made millions for you off of covid testing maybe you should have fucking saved that for a rainy day
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whoknowsyourfuture · 1 year ago
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Look, there is a simple way to make sure employees are able to take breaks.
Hire
Enough
Fucking
Staff
But, y'know. That cuts into the CEOs yacht budget so we're not going to do that.
So, I've gone back to working at Home Depot while I'm going back to college right? Well, shit is about to hit the fan at Home Depot's across the country. A new policy has been put in place about warnings for not following your schedule to the T, which originally everyone thought only applied to punch in and punch out times. Which would be fine! A lot of people do come in late too often, or leave late, or whatever.
BUT. Home Depot also, technically, schedules what time you're supposed to take your lunch. But NO ONE follows this part of the schedule because you literally CAN'T. The lunch times are so random and rarely work with people's coverage and they frequently break the rule of getting a 30 minute break every 5 hours because of where they sit in a shift. Plus, sometimes they'll be super early in a shift when you just aren't hungry yet.
And the new policy? If you are even a few minutes off on taking your scheduled lunch you'll get an attendance occurrence. (Or half of one, depending on how off you are in your timing.) Once you reach 10 occurrences, which would only take about 2-3 weeks at most of being off on your lunches, you get fired.
Talking to a customer? Too bad, you must drop everything and go to lunch. In the middle of cutting a lumber order for a customer? Too bad. In the middle of a huge rush at the paint desk with no backup that actually knows how to work the paint machines in the store? Too bad. Driving a forklift? Too bad.
The policy goes into effect in a week. People are already crossing out "customer service" and "employee support" (or whatever that one is) on the little values wheel on their aprons. There's talk of a work to rule strike.
Anywho. Prepare for some chaos at your local Home Depot and be patient with the workers going forward. We're not happy about it either.
#ive been working in the medical field since covid#and its filled me with overwhelming rage the amount of times temps have been hired with promises of permanent positions#then let go as soon as it got slow#then another surge happened and what do you know#we were short staffed and couldnt get new temps in until a month or more in#at a new location now#weve had several students go through and only one has been hired into a pool position even though they have positions open#are ending two travelers contracts#and have two people going on maternity leave at the same time in a couple of months#'but the budget' fuck off we made millions for you off of covid testing maybe you should have fucking saved that for a rainy day#just like we get told when we're living paycheck to paycheck because cost of living is fucked and youre going off numbers from 2019 for it#rant#sorry just sick of this bullshit when theres a perfectly reasonable way around problems#and if anyone wants to go 'but people dont want to work' sorry to tell ya but there were a ton of fresh college grads who were screwed over#and got burnt out of the field bc they put everything into the job and got spat on in thanks#idr how many positions i applied for out of college#and i got lucky with the pandemic making them desperate#i dont have the applicable degree but i have the experience and can get certified bc of it#you should not need a specific degree for my position. but there are kids getting the specific degree (4years of it)#when it is perfectly reasonable to start off working and climb up w experience and certifications#double rant#sorry just tired
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