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In reply to the discussion: You know what, f*ck Capitalism... [View all]Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)Let's see, locking up fire doors with chains, that was normal, as was locking employees in non-24 hour stores on overnights. Stealing overtime, as in actually cutting hours AFTER you worked them, that got them sued and as part of the class action, I got 250 dollars! Yeah, that made up for the thousands they stole from me.
Or how about the shenanigans at CFM(Literally, Convenient Food Mart, now defunct) I worked at, over 60% of employees were managers, but we were hourly and had no power to hire or fire, and in most locations, it was one person per shift. Oh, and it was mandatory 10 hour shift, you figure out your own breaks if you were lucky, and it was 5 days a week, 50 hour weeks, that was fun.
Or how about working at Wackenhut, a security company that became rather infamous in how it ran its private prisons, I didn't work in one of those, thankfully. Worked my way up to Lieutenant, as if that actually meant something, I was shift supervisor, and management were the laziest assholes you ever met. I literally worked 32 hours straight over a weekend because they couldn't pick up the God damned phone and relieve me, as they were supposed to do according to corporate policy, and what did I do when I filed a complaint, they fucked with my hours then laid me off.