@Background Pony #05A7  
You’re welcome.

@Th3M4nW1thN0N4m3  
Having been there myself, thank you.
 
Though I’m doing better than a relation’s retail job. At least when I was at a supermarket we didn’t have semi-regular shootouts in the parking lot.

I feel so sorry for the employees who have to deal with this.

This hits a little too close to home

I always knew Stellar was a Karen.

It’s funny because Stellar is definitely that person.

@Background Pony #A720
 
it was just an un-subtle implication that the company secretly controls the union on the sly, which is technically illegal but…
 
actually no, I hadn’t heard of that union. it doesn’t seem like the company controlled sort, though.
 
@Background Pony #A720
 
yes, criminals profit greatly from breaking the law, if allowed to do so with impunity. that doesn’t make it legal.
 
rule by force != rule of law

@TexasUberAlles  
That was the least of it. Every department’s hours in the store were slashed to the bone; you typically ended up working in 3-4 different departments a night because they needed the help.
 
I found out the reason why years later. The store managers of the chain had a betting pool going on for whose store showed the most profit by year’s end. The managers got a set number of hours for their workers every month, and if they used less hours they got a bonus.
 
The manager of my store won that betting pool every year, which was good for him, because he bet his entire year-end salary on it. Not so good for us.

@redweasel  
Ever hear of the United Food and Commercial Worker’s Union?
 
Not that UFCW was much of a union when I worked with them, but still.

@Background Pony #A720
 
>supermarket  
>“union”
 

@TexasUberAlles  
Only slightly more of a horse’s ass, maybe.

@Havock  
Only slightly more of a horse than the Typical Karen.
 
@Background Pony #A720  
Forcing hourly employees to work off the clock is hella illegal in most places, even in anti-worker hellholes like the US; anyone being subject to that shit should document it and send the documentation to labor law authorities and local news media at the same time.

My worst enemy… Karen

I loved when this happened at the one supermarket I was at. If you worked late to get their order in, the company would breathe down your neck for cheating them out of their money since they had to pay you.
 
And if you refused to take care of the idiot, you got in trouble for mouthing off to a customer.
 
Luckily our manager had a perfect solution – he’d check you out when you were supposed to check out, even if you stayed four hours extra to get a d*mn load of 500 watermelons off the truck. Complain and you got fired,or switched over to the worst department tin the store. And the Union would back him up.
 
I’m so glad those people went out of business.

at least stellar flare is grateful that they’re still open.
 
when I go to a shop minutes before closing, and I have absolutely horrible timing so I end up doing that a lot, I make sure to thank them for still dealing with me at the last minute. not to mention get my business done quick and get out.

This is working retail in a nutshell

I’m guilty of this at one point, but not at exactly one minute before closing time. That’s just a dick move.
 
@genervt
 
And possibly suffer an aneurysm when they find out that it’s unpaid overtime.

Somepony will have to work overtime.

I work at a grocery store where you need quite a bit of time to actually shop. This will still happen.

@Background Pony #7126  
And the 20 next because she isn’t in a hurry.

She’s gonna work that minute.

As someone who works in food and hospitality, THIS is in the top ten things you DO NOT DO if you don’t want to piss off the people working there. Like one time I started at 8:00 P.M. and for the first five hours they kept ordering $100+ worth of food in a single order. That night I didn’t finish until 10:00 A.M, four hours later than I was supposed to. Some of us like to be at home sometimes you know!

@TexasUberAlles  
That sounds like a fun law. I’d love to see some people denied by it.

Remember, the customer is always, always, always crying out for a fist in the face.
 
Texas has dumbass blue laws which prohibit alcohol sales from Midnight-0700 Monday through Saturday and 0100-Noon Sunday; HEB announces several times over the PA system starting at 2300 that no alcohol can be sold after Midnight/0100 at all of their stores which stay open that late, and there are still always a few dopes who try to get in line with beer or wine after the cutoff because they either aren’t paying attention or somehow believe the largest supermarket chain in Texas will risk its liquor license to make an exception for them, Special Them. it’s double hilarious because all of the networked registers are programmed to automatically reject any alcohol sale rung up at an illegal time, so cashiers can just show them the DENIED screen and shrug at them secure in the knowledge that every level of management right up to the guy who’s name is on the side of the building will have their back if a customer gets pissy about it.