Bitch, $864 a MONTH won't pay my rent. Also, if free drinks cost you $864 a year, you're either overpaying for for soda fountain, or that's an absolutely absurd amount of free drinks. Soda fountains print money...

  • Dbumba [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    I once worked at a local bar / restaurant chain that would also nickel and dime their employees for everything.

    They would supply you exactly one shirt, which was required since you couldn't wear your own shirts, and you had to buy addition shirts if you wanted them.

    Same thing with your name tag, so if you lost it you had to buy another one. My just got so naturally degraded a manager insisted I had to buy a new one but I refused, it led to a huge argument and eventually she ceded the name tag but the damage was done. The cost of this name tag? A single dollar. Imagine literally dying on that hill as a manager making 35k a year working 60-70 hour weeks.

    I also tried to unionize my local McDonald's at 16 I passed around a worker bill of rights, and of course I was fired. Although honestly for just cause not unionization, to be fair was a terrible employee at every opportunity.

    • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      That's normal from my experience working in places with name tags and uniforms.

      I once had a manager fucking pull me in the office to tell me I had b.o.

      I was like dude I'm working 6 days a week and you gave me one shirt, I can't hit the coin laundry every single night on minimum wage, and that was basically the end of the conversation. Didn't even give me a new shirt, just a warning about hygiene. It was nuts.

      I quit soon after.

      The next job I got tried to do the same thing, at least the part of only giving one shirt for 5-6 day work week didn't do the whole passive aggressive shaming stuff right away, but they eventually ceded in giving me three whole shirts.

      Absolutely crazy shit.