Fingernails. Nature’s safety bumpers for your fingertips.
Not sure how “mini” this is - I don’t know how to feel about all this.
But I came here to bitch to y’all that the dispensary where I work not only dropped our weekly “penny product” for employees, but also axed everyone’s hours. I went from “4-on/3-off” to “3-on/4-off”… a loss of ten work hours each week, and others got it worse.
We also STILL don’t have health insurance, despite being told “soon!” when I was hired back in May.
No flu shot, either. When I asked about that, my fucking old-man Boomer manager told me, “They’re free!” Well, yeah … if you got health insurance, mofo.
The cut-to-the-bone staffing means two people opening, and two closing. Nobody’s got health care, everyone now has a grudge against management … what happens if (ha! when) someone calls out sick? Or “sick” ? One sole worker running the entire shitshow alone? How’s that gonna go?
… and how bad will morale get that day?
It’s like nobody thought about those questions.
The penny product (exactly that: a “free” item each week - sometimes our choice, sometimes a specific product) was a nice perk, and was a true morale booster.
It also allowed us all to speak knowledgeably about products that, quite frankly, we wouldn’t spend a dime on personally. Seventy, eighty bucks, just to know more about a product you sell, no commission, that you may not even like or want? Ain’t happenin’ bub.
But there’s a lot I can sell comfortably and with authority now that I would never know a goddamn thing about.
Plus a couple of specific items that I like. Now. But I didn’t know I would, and would not have bought for myself and would never have known how awesome “X” is.
And they’ve thrown all that away.
Penny wise/pound foolish.
I’m off 3 days straight, so we’ll see what kind of dumpster fire this has all ignited once I wander back in mid-week.