Reminds me of working in a grocery warehouse when covid hit. Mandatory 12 hour shifts for a 60 hour work week. And if they were feeling nice, they'd get a couple of boxes of Lunchables to give to employees on break. And that was with a union.

Oh and then I got shitcanned because I was getting a good bit of tendinitis, so they make me go to the employee doctor. They made me take a drug test even though I shouldn't have taken one because of the nature of my injury. Then I got fired for THC in my system in a legal cannabis state.

My union steward who when I first met him told me "management are cops, im your lawyer, don't say shit to cops" had gotten a promotion and decided he liked management after that.

[–] Des@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yeah that's the reason why i never declare them workplace injuries. just "repetitive stress" which isn't covered in my state.

god that shit sucks with them popping you (also in legal state myself). i went through covid too about the same (like 40+ continuous days). i was a manager myself at the time, newly minted. i decided i was going to step down eventually even if it ended up taking a few years

no union but i will say i was the least cop-like manager. used to tell my crew if they wanted to unionize I would immediately step down and assist so not to get in trouble with NLRB. radicalized my entire team.

now I know all the inside shit and procedures and anti-union talking points so I'm probably more dangerous as a "respected former manager".

[–] uSSRI@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Oh totally a good lesson for me in yet another way the system can and will fuck you over.

Always good to get more knowledge and use it to take these behemoths down.