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I would love to hear his justification of how he works 753 times harder than an average employee.
20 years ago I worked at Target. Holy shit, never again. The managers do not give a shit, at ALL.
The employees bust their asses stocking shelves, helping customers, running register (this at a time before self checkout), and doing literally everything to keep the store running.
As far as I could tell, the managers do about 1-2 hours of paperwork in their office, and spend the rest of the time going around yelling at every single employee for no reason.
One time we had a guy who wanted to return a VCR. Keep in mind 20 years ago is 2005. This VCR is at LEAST 10 years old, and very used. We don't even sell this VCR.
He has no reciept. No box. No remote. There was a porn vhs inside the vcr. He insisted the VCR doesn't work, is brand new, and wants a $300 refund.
I refused him, because, c'mon.
He asks for the manager. Manager comes over, I explain the situation in private. Then she goes and talks to him. He says I was being rude. Manager is yelling at me that I should have just processed the refund (despite the fact it goes against literally every policy).
So I just asked her "Ok, how do I do that?"
And she looked at me as if I farted. She says "What do you mean? Just scan the UPC, and ring it up!". So I asked "Ok, where is the UPC?" And NOW she had to admit we can't return it. Mind you, I already told her in private beforehand that he has no box and we don't even sell this VCR.
But now that we physically can't even start the process, she had to admit I was right. Which she then yelled at ME for being rude to HER.
Walked out that day. Fuck target, fuck working at target. Fuck those little letters on the register that say you're working too slow. Fuck the idea that every customer is always right. Fuck the idea that employees are worthless wage slaves. Fuck entitled managers. Fuck this CEO. I don't even care if he wasn't CEO 20 years ago. Fuck him anyways. Fuck billionaires.
Yup, I worked there in the late 90s and this was my experience. Also, at the end of the night the managers would lock the doors and make us clock out and clean the store. I didn't know about wage theft back then, but I did know what they were doing was wrong.
Might be too late for you now, but for everyone else reading, involve your state employment commission! I got all my back pay from an abusive restaurant owner (like a million years ago, apologies if these no longer exist or are just too dysfunctional to do anything anymore).
I was in high school, working like 50-60 hour weeks, and this lady thought it was fine to pay regular rates past 40. I sure didn't! State employment commission didn't either. Stole some water bottles full of Grey Goose on my way out, lol, then collected a cool few very well-earned buckaroos some months later.
Restaurant folded in a year. Turns out it was basically a gift from her successful husband anyway, lady was outrageous. As in, fuckin employees in the walk-in and stealing money from high school kids outrageous lol
Aaaaand just realized I'm old. I'm apparently the kinda guy who just tells stories about strangers to no one, from 20+ years ago, for no reason.
Those are the best kind of stories and I’m here for them.