So as far as I know, there have been no direct threats to my job with the shitty economy. But we have some less then awesome stuff going down.
1) A policy is being reviewed that may require all employees to take one day off a month without pay. See, this may not seem so bad, but for some people, that is the difference between buying groceries for their family that week.
2)Less overtime being offered. I like overtime cuz it pads my paychecks nicely. But now there seems to be a lot less of this and it's leaving us with skeleton crews much of the time. This sucks cuz if you need to take a bathroom break, you have to ask someone to listen to your radio channel while you're gone. It's really a pain in the ass when you're doing the potty dance and you have to wait for the supervisor to have a second to key you up because there is no else to do it.
3) Crime happens. Frequently. However, since the economy has started sliding downhill (especially in the past few months), it's been getting really weird.
Normal: Road rage incident dissolves into fistfight.
Recent: Road rage incident where middle-aged man follows 17 year old pregnant girl home and threatens to beat her, her dad, and brother to a pulp with a baseball bat.
Normal: Roommate 1 is upset roommate 2 is moving out and gets into a fight with them with rm2 shows up to get his stuff.
Recent: Rm2 shows up to get his stuff and without any warning, rm1's 5 closest friends show up and beat rm2 with golf clubs and one of them had a knife.
There are a lot more stories where ordinary situations become off-the-wall situations, but I don't want to sit here long enough to type them all out.
Then today I found out the SO got shit-canned. Even though he took a company that was $25,000 in debt because a previous employee was stealing money and completely turned it around. He made it a productive store that was earning money and has a good image with it's customer's. The boss who fired him accused him of stealing money and also cited the fact that he didn't answer his phone on a day that it wasn't working.
My SO has never had a write up or any other form of disciplinary action taken against him with this company.
Oh and I can guarantee that he wasn't stealing from the company, we have netflix cuz it's cheaper then going out on a date. He doesn't buy random extravagent stuff ever. In fact, he's a heavy smoker who hasn't bought a pack in several days because he doesn't have any money at the moment due to the week he had to take off when he was sicker then dog shit. He rides a bicycle/takes the bus cuz he doesn't have a car. And our rent check just bounced... So yeah, fuck off.
1) A policy is being reviewed that may require all employees to take one day off a month without pay. See, this may not seem so bad, but for some people, that is the difference between buying groceries for their family that week.
2)Less overtime being offered. I like overtime cuz it pads my paychecks nicely. But now there seems to be a lot less of this and it's leaving us with skeleton crews much of the time. This sucks cuz if you need to take a bathroom break, you have to ask someone to listen to your radio channel while you're gone. It's really a pain in the ass when you're doing the potty dance and you have to wait for the supervisor to have a second to key you up because there is no else to do it.
3) Crime happens. Frequently. However, since the economy has started sliding downhill (especially in the past few months), it's been getting really weird.
Normal: Road rage incident dissolves into fistfight.
Recent: Road rage incident where middle-aged man follows 17 year old pregnant girl home and threatens to beat her, her dad, and brother to a pulp with a baseball bat.
Normal: Roommate 1 is upset roommate 2 is moving out and gets into a fight with them with rm2 shows up to get his stuff.
Recent: Rm2 shows up to get his stuff and without any warning, rm1's 5 closest friends show up and beat rm2 with golf clubs and one of them had a knife.
There are a lot more stories where ordinary situations become off-the-wall situations, but I don't want to sit here long enough to type them all out.
Then today I found out the SO got shit-canned. Even though he took a company that was $25,000 in debt because a previous employee was stealing money and completely turned it around. He made it a productive store that was earning money and has a good image with it's customer's. The boss who fired him accused him of stealing money and also cited the fact that he didn't answer his phone on a day that it wasn't working.
My SO has never had a write up or any other form of disciplinary action taken against him with this company.
Oh and I can guarantee that he wasn't stealing from the company, we have netflix cuz it's cheaper then going out on a date. He doesn't buy random extravagent stuff ever. In fact, he's a heavy smoker who hasn't bought a pack in several days because he doesn't have any money at the moment due to the week he had to take off when he was sicker then dog shit. He rides a bicycle/takes the bus cuz he doesn't have a car. And our rent check just bounced... So yeah, fuck off.
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