# It's the Great Minirants, Charlie Brown! (October minirants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 1, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-great-minirants-charlie-brown-october-minirants/921997 "2020-10-01T23:41:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 203
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-great-minirants-charlie-brown-october-minirants/921997/203 "2020-10-25T15:34:47Z")
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. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-great-minirants-charlie-brown-october-minirants/921997)._