fuck

Haha gay

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Oh my fucking god

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Retail hell is slowly dwindling the workforce while expecting the same level of quality for an undoable amount of tasks and then yelling at the employees for not being able to do it all.

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My most recent post about Starbucks' bullshit got way more attention than I expected, so:

Ask me anything about capitalism, revolution, fucking the 1 percent, working at Starbucks vs. Working at an indie coffeeshop, working at a bookstore, book recommendations/thoughts, gender and sexuality stuff, labor, and all in between

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I work at Starbucks so I can't afford a car.

If you want another example of how this company is full of evil hacks, they are now making it harder for us to get to and from work.

They had this partnership with Lyft where between 6 PM and 6 AM you could get $20 off a Lyft to or from your home store. It was deemed a safety measure for those of us who don't have cars so we're not waiting outside in the dark before open or after close.

It's 7:30 PM, I'm done with my shift. My bus won't be here for half an hour so I try to call a Lyft only to find my coupon isn't applying.

I refresh it, I look under payments, I'm assuming it's a bug. Then I check the benefits screen and find this.

They have *halved* our availability to use this service. Also, not all Starbucks are open under 11:30 PM making this benefit useless.

None of this was told to partners. We had to discover it on our own.

This is how companies fuck you. You may think you have great benefits, but you have no power to keep them. Once labor gets compliant, the executives will take everything, bit by bit, penny by fucking penny. And reminder, this was a *safety* measure. Your wellbeing is meaningless to them.

Fuck the executive class. Unionize now. Collective action is the only thing these bloodsuckers fear and they need to be very, very afraid.

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This is what happens to supervisors who micromanage

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Happy Pride Month!!

If you identify as queer for the next 30 days every straight person you meet has to give you 5 bucks

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You got to love a company culture that says "Of course don't come in sick! We don't want you feeling bad or it spreading!" and in the same breath says "If you call out it will be a mark on your attendance and possible disciplinary action especially if you're an opener or closer :)"

Thank God this doesn't happen in a field where you're interacting with hundreds of people a day and handling things that will go into their mouths like food service - o h wait.

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It's one of our busiest days of the year and we had 3 employees to serve hundreds. I had to tell people the wait for food was going to be around 15 minutes and asked "Is that okay?" In that customer service *I'm asking because I have to cater to you* way. One guy responds "Not really but I don't have a choice. My family will be upset." So I tell him "Well if they're interested we're hiring"

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I've made a discovery.

Context, I don't think page/word count is the end all be all for how long a book will take you. Language and complexity play a part but I also think there's something more that I haven't been able to put my finger on.

For example, it took me a little over a month to finish Leo Tolstoy's *War and Peace* with a word count of about 587,000. It also took me a little less than a month to finish Tom Robbins' *Jitterbug Perfume*, which clocks in at around 85,000 words.

Even if I read "more" while getting through *War and Peace*, how did it take nearly as long for me to finish something 1/5th the size?

My conclusion, some books are growers, and some books are showers.

*War and Peace* is a shower: it looks massive but if you're engaged with the narrative you can blaze through it.

*Jitterbug Perfume* is a grower. You have to crawl your way through it like you're under a bush.

Some books show their length on their sleeves, some hide it, and some fake their size.

Now to figure out why none of my bookstore coworkers like this analogy.

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We really got a piss refresher before a union deal.

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I Wish I Was Making This Up - 22

We had a rough one at the national chain coffee shop yesterday. There was the kind of traffic that we needed a minimum of 6 people to handle. We had 2.

The district manager happened to be doing a routine check in. She saw the chaos, told the supervisor to reach out to other stores for support, then left. I think she was in the building for less than 5 minutes.

Somehow she is not aware that these "other stores" are stretched just as thin as we are despite being in charge of them. She has no knowledge of how our store works or interest in learning. She was confused on how we ran out of food to sell when we sold more than 500 items in one day, more than our fridges can hold.

Management isn't there to support. Their job is to monitor. They are the snitches of the executive class, letting the top know when workers are discussing making their lives better through collective action.

I'm making the distinction between worker and manager on purpose. Management doesn't work, they don’t get their hands dirty, don’t get screamed at for minimum wage. They exist to "manage" the laborer.

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Quick reminder that your boss exploits you, so exploit them back.

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I Wish I Was Making This Up - 21

Two people ordered teas at the same time, one hot tea, one iced tea. I put down the iced tea, the hot one is already on the counter, and turn to walk away but one of the customers calls me back.

She says "We both got teas, how are we supposed to know which one is which?"

I point to one person and ask "You got a iced tea?" She says yes. I say "Yours is the iced one." Then I point to the other person and ask "You got a hot tea?" She says yes. I say "Yours is the hot one."

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I Wish I Was Making This Up - 20

I am 30 seconds into my shift and I've already got people throwing out their trash in the can I'm trying to replace. Like my hands are literally on it and there are 4 more cans less than a foot away.

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I Wish I Was Making This Up - 19

This is a follow up to the story here about people not knowing how to drink.

We don't carry straws at my local cafe. When I told that to someone they replied "How am I supposed to drink my cold brew then?" And I just kind of stuttered "We have lids."

I get having a preference but being asked this feels like you're asking me "how do you walk?"

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I Wish I Was Making This Up - 18

My bookstore is half bookstore, half cafe. We ask people not to bring books they haven't purchased yet into the cafe part because if they get food or coffee on them, we can't sell them.

Person sits down with an expensive hardcover, like I know off the top of my head it's over $35. So I ask her if she's bought it yet, she says no. And I give her the speal I just gave you. She seems like she's used to things going her way as she says "tell you what, if I damage it, then I'll buy it." And I go "No. Please put it back."

She huffs and complains about how she only wanted to read the final chapter because her Kindle died and she's not going to buy the entire book but does eventually put it back on the shelves unharmed.

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I got an hour into watching a let's play of RE9 before I realized I was doing this during the Leon sections: