So let me get this straight, Brick. Donnie should be steadfast in his loyalty to a company that shows no loyalty to him. Grumbel’s pays him an awful hourly wage and doesn’t give him anywhere near enough hours to get by, and yet you expect him to just be subservient? Sorry, but the 13th Amendment outlawed slavery, and that should 100% apply here.
It’s not just retail. Every job, no matter who you work for expects undying loyalty but will give you nothing in return. I don’t understand why unions aren’t everywhere. I’m retired now but I’ve worked in all sorts of jobs, in all size companies, in all kinds of different industries. Every single one would have benefited from a union. I had 1 union job that protected me from getting fired when my grandmother died on the weekend before the week I requested off for vacation and was turned down. My boss made nasty remarks that it was too,convenient and I got the vacation as bereavement leave. When I heard this, I called him out on it. Of course he wanted to fire me. The union saved my job. I wasn’t nasty about it, I just told him I knew what he said.
Working my first retail job in high school, they didn’t want to give me the day for my graduation. Said I could work before, head to graduation, and then come back after. I told them to just go ahead and write me up as a no show.
Same thing happened to me when I worked for American Greetings. They cut our hours but still expected loyalty from us. When we couldn’t get all the needed work done in the allotted time we were to tell the store managers it was our fault and we would try to do better. In other words, work for free. Why? So the 3 CEO’s could get a bonus of course! I QUIT!!!
So let me get this straight, Brick. Donnie should be steadfast in his loyalty to a company that shows no loyalty to him. Grumbel’s pays him an awful hourly wage and doesn’t give him anywhere near enough hours to get by, and yet you expect him to just be subservient? Sorry, but the 13th Amendment outlawed slavery, and that should 100% apply here.
That’s pretty much the retail corporate mindset in a nutshell.
It’s not just retail. Every job, no matter who you work for expects undying loyalty but will give you nothing in return. I don’t understand why unions aren’t everywhere. I’m retired now but I’ve worked in all sorts of jobs, in all size companies, in all kinds of different industries. Every single one would have benefited from a union. I had 1 union job that protected me from getting fired when my grandmother died on the weekend before the week I requested off for vacation and was turned down. My boss made nasty remarks that it was too,convenient and I got the vacation as bereavement leave. When I heard this, I called him out on it. Of course he wanted to fire me. The union saved my job. I wasn’t nasty about it, I just told him I knew what he said.
Working my first retail job in high school, they didn’t want to give me the day for my graduation. Said I could work before, head to graduation, and then come back after. I told them to just go ahead and write me up as a no show.
Does anyone else hope that Bryce would trip and fall down the up escalator.
Same thing happened to me when I worked for American Greetings. They cut our hours but still expected loyalty from us. When we couldn’t get all the needed work done in the allotted time we were to tell the store managers it was our fault and we would try to do better. In other words, work for free. Why? So the 3 CEO’s could get a bonus of course! I QUIT!!!