#But this shit pisses me off to such a degree

[grinalbi]

Story time bc short-staffing and food service was brought up and I'd figure I could add my own experiences to the convo (even if they aren't really unique at this point tbh)...

I worked fast food for a while. Local chain, I was part of the night/closing shift. Most chains here - local and not - used to be 24 hours but the pandemic changed a lot of that. This one was no exception, though it still stays open later than most places around here meaning that it gets EXTREMELY busy at night. Paired with the fact that the location of the store I was at was on a major road not too far from an airport and in an area with a major sports scene, lets just say that it could get brutal with how many people came to that place.

I quit primarily because they were kinda sorta ableist to me... but another big reason I left was because they pulled this exact shit.

Minimum wage here for the food service industry is 15$ USD. Earlier this year at this chain specifically they actually bumped it up to 16$. Putting aside the fact that minimum wage for EVERYONE should be at least 25$+ had it kept up with inflation, it was nevertheless nice being able to make more than other places even starting out.

The thing is - to be able to “afford” everyone getting a dollar more than other places... they bumped up the price of everything on the menu by a considerable amount as well as massively cut the hours of everyone. Not only were many of us losing income bc we were working less in total - I personally lost a LOT of hours after this - but we were going from having a reasonable number of people to having literally three people - one person on line, one person on headset taking orders, and whoever the shift manager for the day was - running an entire store, at a busy location, with no extra compensation. Also as an aside, worker's comp at this chain was a set 5$ and after the price increase meant that it would barely cover a single small/basic item on the menu... so they weren't even giving enough to feed us (if we wanted to have a proper lunch we'd often have to dig out of our own funds... which is a problem when you're poor and all the money you made is already going towards bills, but I digress).

Again, working night shifts at this place was extremely brutal. We had too little people for the amount of work required, and it was often the case of you needing to juggle a billion different tasks at once which messed with your overall output. It was to the point where every single night I was coming home in extraordinary pain in my feet and back from having to run around for hours without stopping. Even if there was a lull in customers, there was so much to do that we couldn't take a sitting break in-between serving people (also they had a policy of, if you weren't pregnant, you literally weren't allowed to sit at all for any reason nor amount of time anyways). After the restaurant closed, we were expected to have everything done within an hour of closing the drive-thru... which due to the low amount of people oftentimes was literally impossible due to the sheer amount of work that *could've* technically been done during our open hours but wasn't bc the few of us that were there were stretched thin as is. The kicker is that we'd get yelled at by upper management for taking too long to close and going overtime!

We NEEDED more people at night/close, not only for stress purposes and being able to wrap up everything in a reasonable time, but a lot of us were poor and desperately needed the cash that we would've been getting had they scheduled us properly. Upper management wouldn't listen, though. They were only looking at everything with dollar signs in their eyes (and it was the whole thing of they could very much afford to increase our wages while keeping everything the same as before, so that wasn't an excuse). The only response they would give to us when we begged them to let more people stay later was basically a shrug and the excuse of "something something labor shortage".

Labor shortage MY FUCKING ASS.

[deadpanwalking]

Every time my neighbours blast their selection of really bad music from 10 pm to 5 am I become a war criminal in my mind. Maybe in the future tumblr will have a feature that allows someone like op to judge me at the Thought Hague.

Man, if my neighbors blasted their selection of really good music at 2AM, I'd still be thinking shit that would land me in the gallows next to you at Crimethink Nuremberg.

[phantomsies]

getting all the education/degrees I can and planning so I can get the fuck out of this country >>>>

[lemongogo]

college … wasted on the youth (me)

[bpdohwhatajoy]

You know a really insufferable type of person? The ones who move through the world as if they’re the main character and everyone else is a supporting character instead of human beings with their own rich inner lives

[frereamour]

I think the university fandom is about to have the shock of their lives in the coming decade or so, but do continue to feel superior to everyone else because you sat your ass down at a lecture hall

[officialkendallroy]

i fucking hate what tiktok has done to people's brains so much why do you need to film yourself at a concert STOP

[friedhands]

Bangningg my head against anaything reminds me of when I did it as a child...ahhh nostalgia or whateever

im so fucking done

[cuntwrap--supreme]

What is it about me that makes old white men think I'm a conservative? I need to know so I can change that.

[trickstarbrave]

i checked back on that one extremely long fic where nerevar is the vestige and voryn got mentioned

>nerevar saying he's the trinimac to voryn's lorkhan >he was so upset killing voryn he let the tribunal kill him in turn >begged molag bal to make him for get about voryn bc it hurt too much

maybe i just have morrowind yaoi brainrot but this is gay to me

[plummyplums]

Mont-d'Or is gonna have a damn breakdown sometime. Mans is exclusively rage, stress, pride, and cheese.

[ardentpoop]

the way this show treats sam is frankly fucking unforgivable lmfao i'm seething again

[starryluminary]

I would be a better person if I could at least tolerate n//emma. Alas I’m seething with rage

[aberooski]

If I have another breakdown at work tomorrow like I did the last time I worked a Saturday I'm going to kill myself because last time I screamed in the hallway and cried so hard I was shaking because of how stressed I was.

[spacenintendogs]

whoever decided lawns need to be a thing i hope u rot

[bambino1294]

fuckin love having a shitty year and a useless ass uni