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sheyshen · 2 years

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while i’m on the screw major companies kick, i’d like to add in an enthusiastic screw you to amazon, and walmart, but mostly amazon.

two of the major local grocery store companies that are in my town are merging because amazon is driving them out of business. (albertsons and kroger) I have my own personal grievances with albertsons from working at jewel for a few years a few years back, but i’d rather not see them go down because of amazon.

#you wanna knock jewel down a peg because of how they over work their employees and are severely understaffed? go right ahead #also that i'm sure they're still very underpaid because i was all three of those and that's why i quit #for context i worked as a florist there. where when i was hired we were a team of 3 but when one of us left they never hired anyone new #so it was 2 people running an entire department alone #i was working on average 60 hour weeks with no breaks and would have to skip my lunch often cause i had to run home to care for my mom #i was never trained as a designer even though they dangled the option in front of me constantly but just never signed off on it #but i was designing floral arrangements most of the day every day #i was doing manager work while being only an associate in title and they consistently refused to give me a raise so i was stuck at $8 an hou #i was sexually harassed and when reporting it to the store manager he told me that it'd be an anonymous report #and then proceeded to make the person i reported apologize to my face at work while on work hours #so of course now the whole store knew i reported him #i kept bothering both my lead at the time and the store manager to hire at least one more person for our team but neither did so #and when speaking about how i wanted better hours and a raise my lead at the time laughed it off saying she didn't get paid much either #so i ended up quitting #and when the store manager begged me to stay i told him i would if he would give me a good raise and better hours #and when he just went quiet i just said 'then i'm sorry but i'm not changing my mind'#the team next to ours had a really cool lead and he'd help me out now and then. the rest of the store thought he was mean though lol #but like all that? that's stuff i'd rather see jewel get hit because of. not because of amazon of all places

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