Just the entire COVID experience as a grocery worker. Being told I was a "hero" and "essential" and forced to be exposed to people who would frequently take off their masks to make their hyper-specific fish order with me. The company treated us like shit, giving us like one month of hazard pay before axing it, and meanwhile they were making record profits. They wanted to sell the company, so they were artificially inflating its value. I got COVID and the first time was told to stay away for two weeks, second time to come back once five days had passed and I was testing negative. Wearing the mask was horrible because they never gave me one that fit properly and I could never find a comfortable one. At the same time the store got noisier and noisier and I was just starting to understand my sensory issues.
And all the while the customers didn't change their behavior at all. We'd frequently get people half-assing their masks and not being called on it. Some people would come back to the store every day. Literally EVERY DAY. During the height of a pandemic. I saw clearly how little my management cared about me. I fully understood the selfishness and stupidity of the average American. I became incredibly bitter and I'm still purging myself of that bitterness and trying to build a life out of nothing.
EDIT: Also forgot to mention the time I threw out like $1500 worth of lobsters that all died because the company decided to send them all at once even though we only had limited room in our tank. I threw them into the compactor, just thinking about all the fuel burned catching them, transporting them to processing and then to our store, refrigerating them, and then finally compacting them with the rest of the garbage.
I moved on to a new office job at a car dealership which at first was pretty mellow but lately has become almost as stressful as my last job was. We're all underpaid and so we're understaffed since they can't find anyone willing to stay for the workload. Meanwhile, all of my coworkers are just as unhappy as me, if able to handle it better, but I notice nobody's leaving. The job market is shit around here. Rent is ridiculous. I'm honestly thinking about moving out of state. I'll never find my own place to live at this rate.
Just the entire COVID experience as a grocery worker. Being told I was a "hero" and "essential" and forced to be exposed to people who would frequently take off their masks to make their hyper-specific fish order with me. The company treated us like shit, giving us like one month of hazard pay before axing it, and meanwhile they were making record profits. They wanted to sell the company, so they were artificially inflating its value. I got COVID and the first time was told to stay away for two weeks, second time to come back once five days had passed and I was testing negative. Wearing the mask was horrible because they never gave me one that fit properly and I could never find a comfortable one. At the same time the store got noisier and noisier and I was just starting to understand my sensory issues.
And all the while the customers didn't change their behavior at all. We'd frequently get people half-assing their masks and not being called on it. Some people would come back to the store every day. Literally EVERY DAY. During the height of a pandemic. I saw clearly how little my management cared about me. I fully understood the selfishness and stupidity of the average American. I became incredibly bitter and I'm still purging myself of that bitterness and trying to build a life out of nothing.
EDIT: Also forgot to mention the time I threw out like $1500 worth of lobsters that all died because the company decided to send them all at once even though we only had limited room in our tank. I threw them into the compactor, just thinking about all the fuel burned catching them, transporting them to processing and then to our store, refrigerating them, and then finally compacting them with the rest of the garbage.
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I moved on to a new office job at a car dealership which at first was pretty mellow but lately has become almost as stressful as my last job was. We're all underpaid and so we're understaffed since they can't find anyone willing to stay for the workload. Meanwhile, all of my coworkers are just as unhappy as me, if able to handle it better, but I notice nobody's leaving. The job market is shit around here. Rent is ridiculous. I'm honestly thinking about moving out of state. I'll never find my own place to live at this rate.
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