At what point is enough, enough

cheesefest said:
As some may know, I work at a supermarket. It’s horrendous at the moment. Colleagues leaving, not being fully replaced. What I mean by that is both the hours and skills. Two are retiring in end Nov and end Jan. Plus four on long term sick. Two of them won’t be back until the new year. Then when they do recruit, it is the young ones 90% of the time - it’s got nothing to do with paying them lower. As don’t have a lower wage for under 22s. It doesn’t help recruiting older people who generally stay there longer as all the supermarket jobs advertised - bar the skilled and management ones are just 16 hours a week. Older people probably want 24 hours. As 16 hours for a student appeals them as all day on day when not timetabled in and a couple of evenings or Sundays.

I’m worried about Christmas. We don’t hire temps at all, yet the other stores in the county do
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It's one of the big 4 I work for also and yeah Christmas is going to be a nightmare if they don't get on top of things now. They may harp on about how important the staff are and how much they care, but the reality is they don't give a crap. We are still very much an expendable commodity.
 
MadMossy said:
That entire time we were never rewarded by our employer or even given so much as a thankyou.
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seems it was voluntary though and your getting paid by the hour, usually people are grateful for overtime.

I guess the worlds changing though like
Ironically Amazon is seen as a good company to work for even as a low level drone picking orders, when a few years ago it was considered a trash job where people had to pee in bottles.

you can become employed without ever talking to a human being too
 
arknor said:
seems it was voluntary though and your getting paid by the hour, usually people are grateful for overtime.

I guess the worlds changing though like
Ironically Amazon is seen as a good company to work for even as a low level drone picking orders, when a few years ago it was considered a trash job where people had to pee in bottles.

you can become employed without ever talking to a human being too
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I wasn't referring to the over time, it was more in relation to working throughout lockdown at the start of the pandemic. Through the whole clap for keyworkers crap that everyone seems to have completely forgotten.

Amazon drivers (in fact most delivery drivers) still pee in bottles at worst, just no one cares any more.
 
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