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0 pointsslededit7y ago0 comments

You may not realize it if you haven’t worked these jobs - but the person you hurt most when skipping your shift is not the company. It’s the poor soul promoted to frontline management getting an extra $1 an hour. At Walmart you’ll see them with the red vests.

They’re the ones who get yelled at by the customers for the crappy service and upper management for not being able to find someone to come in on zero notice.

I can guarantee that the one place the message doesn’t go is upper management in corporate.

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supercanuck7y ago· 1 in thread

it does when there is a net decline of $20,000 due to a shutdown.I guarantee those get noticed because I am in the job that notices them. The message gets sent, whether it is received is another story. Sadly, idiots are being promoted to corporate too.

This why a trend where labor is unreliable (in the old days it was a strike) will get people's attention.

slededitOP7y ago

If a union goes on strike they have the decency to tell the company they are striking. That's the difference between ghosting and quitting in protest. If you had no employees because they all quit you still have to shutdown even if they told you they were quitting.

This has very little to do with whether someone actually comes into work and everything to do with what they say or don't say.

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