Bad Management, Low Pay, No Work-Life Balance

kroagrr · Guru

Bad Management, Low Pay, No Work-Life Balance

Date: Aug 12, 2018

This is normal with most low paying jobs. If it were not for the union we'd pretty much be a sweat shop slave labor. Constantly being taken advantage of. Horrid non safe work environments. Always minimum wage. New hires would get holiday pay. No health coverage. Cross training might actually happen with no union mucking it up. Promotions would be more discriminatory. Favoritism rampant. The general public gives high disrespect and little praise to grocery workers and at lest 60% of society treats grocery workers like garbage.

It took about 5 years of no work life balance before I put my foot down on it. I basically missed the last five years of several family members lives. I other wise would have liked to be a part of. Missed weddings, funerals, general life promotions, major life events, several family meals, several family get to gethers, ect. Just always kept working. Never saw them. Work never allowed me to see them. After the children of the next generation said they barely knew I existed I said enough of no work life balance. If you want a work life balance you have to create one. Learn the inner workings of how hours are generated and you can manipulate it. That's what I do now. It's the only way you can get a work life balance and still live.

Date: Aug 12, 2018

Anonymous wrote:
This is normal with most low paying jobs. If it were not for the union we'd pretty much be a sweat shop slave labor. Constantly being taken advantage of. Horrid non safe work environments. Always minimum wage. New hires would get holiday pay. No health coverage. Cross training might actually happen with no union mucking it up. Promotions would be more discriminatory. Favoritism rampant. The general public gives high disrespect and little praise to grocery workers and at lest 60% of society treats grocery workers like garbage.
It took about 5 years of no work life balance before I put my foot down on it. I basically missed the last five years of several family members lives. I other wise would have liked to be a part of. Missed weddings, funerals, general life promotions, major life events, several family meals, several family get to gethers, ect. Just always kept working. Never saw them. Work never allowed me to see them. After the children of the next generation said they barely knew I existed I said enough of no work life balance. If you want a work life balance you have to create one. Learn the inner workings of how hours are generated and you can manipulate it. That's what I do now. It's the only way you can get a work life balance and still live.

I now make the schedule work more in my favor. Done missing life events

Date: Aug 12, 2018

This is why I've made my displeasure known to upper management. I've let them know that I don't enjoy my job with the way this store is ran. They were kind of shocked and at a loss for words.

I also made it clear that I wanted less hours. 20-25 a week. Me personally, with how I save, I have more than enough to cover my expenses. Giving my soul to this company at 40 hours a week would just be overkill.

They don't fire me because they know that I actually do my job well, even while disgruntled.

FES's or department managers don't make much more than me on a full 40 hour work week. Sure they get taxed at a higher rate but that just proves my point further. More headache, get taxed more, make similar to an APC clerk.