Fuck Winn Dixie

I know exactly how you feel.

You feel absolutely raped in services.

It's not fair, but being disrespected as a human being is par for the course in menial labor.

P.S. I had no idea what a Winn Dixie was either. But it's a cool name for a food store.

 

I agree. Just ride it out and be thankful you have a job. It happens everywhere.I just got forced into consulting for a school here in town, and my boss sent me to the wrong school. So I sounded like an idiot calling this one school all week. When I questioned her on it she switched everything around and now I have to work at a school I hate for 3 hours a week. But you know what?; it pays some of our bills and for my hobbies.Try to look at this as a blessing. You have a job in a shit economy.

 

I like you a lot.

 

A job is no entitlement... this is something to keep first and foremost both in trying to land a job as well as keeping one. Employees and potential employees have few rights beyond walking away from an application or walking out of a job. Employers are under no obligation to treat any applicant or worker with any dignity and with the job market tightening as it is, biting one's lip and just weathering the shit storm is becoming an increasingly more valuable asset if the objective is to land and keep a job.

For many years I operated under the illusion that I was legally protected from all manner of "abuse" at the hands of an employer- everything from mandatory overtime- fair notice of said overtime to paid breaks, maximum consecutive hours worked and termination without just cause. Largely such regulation of employer behavior is simply illusion- even if it's in the books as law it's not enforced... and the burden of proof of any infraction rests on the employee- with the investigative practice (at least in CT) tipped in favor of the employer when they are given notice of a complaint, a heads-up of when someone will be on site investigating, and what is likely to be done in order to pass any inspections in order to avoid any citations. Most laws are passed to create the illusion that you are protected; I assure you that you are not. They can lose your info, fuck your hours and fire you for any reason including no reason and unless you belong to specifically protected groups of the population there isn't jack shit you can do about it.

Complaining endlessly about the working environment can only work to designate you as a company irritant and at best your supervisor can do all manner of legal mischief to make your life hell... at worst they can show you the door. Discrimination? Prove it. Good luck with that. You might get to collect 13 or 26 weeks of unemployment but with a shortage of jobs and a glut of people needing them, good luck landing anything with a reputation as an irritant dogging you every time someone from Human Resources checks your references.

It is shit, yes.... but this is the environment we find ourselves in now and is PART of the price we collectively pay when we stop paying attention to what government does under the guise of stimulating the economy and creating jobs and people stop giving a flying fuck about the person next to them. Culturally the shit really needs to hit the fan in a big way.

 

And you know what? I am not even pissed at my boss because I know she is having a shitty week and is very busy.Plus, if I wasn't working we would have to live in base housing...and base housing only has one bathroom...no thanks.

 

I am not trying to be rude here, but I assume it is a different story when you have rent to pay and food to buy and past-due bills. I, like you have never had to be the sole one to financialy support myself and in having that privelege I realize there are other people who would be homeless if they didn't work.I think telling someone to potentially risk their job in this economy is a bit wrong, especially when they have reponsibilities that we don't.

 

I do have responsibilities now that i'm not in school. i don't have medical insurance anymore because i'm not enrolled in school. i will be fined for not having medical insurance. I have to pay my loans back - not my parents.

i did turn down a job because they did not respect my time. i will not be disrespected like that and will not take a job in that type of environment no matter how bad the economy is - because unlike most of the dooms day people, i know the economy will come back up

i still stand by what i said.

 

but, you still have a roof over your head and a car to use -no matter what. I do too, so I'm not trying to talk down to you.Why would you get fined for not having insuarance? Is that an MA thing?Not having insurance sucks. I was without it until i got married and I feel so lucky that Andy's doing the rest of his 20 so we will both have insurance until we die and his daughter will until she is 25.

 

yea, its a MA thing. everyone needs health insurance, otherwise you get fined. i don't particuarly feel i need it at this point in my life, so i really don't see the reason to actually go out and pay for it, even if its through the state - no way i'd afford private right now

and i'm talking priciple here- if more people stood up to being treated like shit from their employers, then it'd be a different ball game. but nope, people want to accept it. me...i won't, no matter my situation

this really is all coming from what i've experienced and learned from school

 

That is so intersting. Are you guys mostly a blue state? That's what Hillary wanted to do with the whole country.Personally, I think it is a good idea, but I think they should provide medical insurance for a year for anyone transitioning out of college.

 

I just did a store finder and the nearest winn dixie is 1,200 miles away

I don't care how good they are; I'm not driving that distance


Hotwater

 

yea, pretty much a blue state.

and its not so much a fine...but a 'tax penalty'

 

If you have medical insurance can you write it off of your taxes?

 

i'm really not sure how it works...i just know when you file state taxes, you check a box to say if you are medically insured or not. if i don't have insurance, then i give up my $219 personal tax exemption. now, if i can afford insurance and choose not too...this year i may not get back as much as like $900.

we have mandatory medical insurance...its different than universal health care

 

As far as having human rights within the workplace-- yes, employers really should treat their employees with dignity but I'd guess that most regular folks who might be a candidate to work in a supermarket would walk all over a boss who gave them good treatment. It's unfortunate for the conscientious person with a work ethic because differentiating between what are merely cogs in an economic apparatus intended to enrich ownership and stockholders is not at all profitable.

Basic economic truth about every business out there: its one and only purpose is to make money. Everything else falls into that line and that line only... including but not limited to making more from the good or service being sold than what is spent in making it available- which includes labor costs. Basically you have to be willing to give your employer alot more than what's being paid to you. Otherwise you're not profitable to keep on the payroll. Don't like it? Tough.

 

So true. Even in my line of work, which is suppossed to be all warm and fuzzy. If I can't get 80 percent of my medicaid funding for patients for the week, I don't get my mileage reimbursed, which is about 150 dollars a week. And on top of it I only get reimbursed 34 cents a mile, which sucks. I am a college graduate with a lot of experience and have a very trying job at times and a shit load of complicated paperwork. I have never once gotten any sympathy from work about this. When someone complained about the mileage the owner of the company said "well you guys are lucky you get mileage. you aren't required to get it by law".I love my job, but if I wanted to be treated better I can't hop agencies. Why?-because I don't have a Master's degree and my company is the only one in Northern Nevada that doesn't require one for my job.If I had one i would have more freedom.Basically, if you ant freedomn in a job and to be treated right, be invaluable. Get an education and some skills.If I had a book or a champter instead of just trivial parapgraphs published or if I had a Master's I know I would be treated a lot better, but I made this choice to be where I am now, undereducated for the position I am in. I need to live with that choice now and be thankful I have a great paying job.So you're right with "If you don't like it, tough", but also we all make choices and if we don't like it can change it.

 

Very well put.

There are many hidden consequences to pursuing a consummerist economic policy over many decades, and worker's rights is one of them.

UNFORTUNATELY, mainstream punitive ideology ("suck it up", "deal with it", "stop whining" , "get over yourself I have it worse than you", "don't like it, go take a hike") along with the mostly false promise of success by dint of hard work creates the incongruous situation in which the employee empathises more with his exploitative employer than with fellow employees who are a threat to his or her job security.

 

I live in the U.S. and as far as I KNOW my state does not have any of those stores.

 

I find it strange everyone keeps saying, 'just keep working there at least you have a job'
because I'm not actually working. I'm waiting to start working, and that is my beef with them. I want to work. And if they're not going to put me to work, then I need to go somewhere that will. I'm not complaining about the work "enviroment," I can handle that, I'm complaining about not being put to work. I'd like to pay my bills as soon as possible. I've been ready to work for two months, but I keep getting told no. How is it worth putting up with if I'm not actually getting any money for my trouble? Y'all are saying that as long as it pays the bills a shit job should be stuck with, but it does not pay the bills yet and God knows how long it'll be before it does. Going long periods of time without seeing a specific point in the future when you'll be able to pay your bills is a bit stressful. I surely can't wait another month. My intent, since today was supposed to be my first day, was to pay my bills in two weeks. That's a long time when they're already overdue. What they did tacked on a third week to that deadline. I'd like to be able to crawl out of debt, eventually it gets to a point where it's out of hand and I don't want that to happen.
And because of their track record, 5 days doesn't necessarily mean 5 days. It might mean 'wait 5 days, and we'll give you another reason to wait.' They never told me to wait two months, they just kept saying 'one more week. One more week,' and it turned into two months. I don't want this to turn into three months.

 

Is there a publix around? Check them out, its supposed to be a good company to work for.