At the nightly meeting [withheld amount of time] ago, one of our managers asked us to please bring in any spare box cutters we might have laying around so that we might have enough for the new people. Otherwise we'd have to dip into our quarterly bonus to pay for it. (Sure, the company can't be expected to foot the bill for basic equipment needed to do one's job without accidentally ripping off one's fingernails, but by God those rookies had those stupid vests on.)
Oh, you didn't know that? Damn near everything comes out of our bonus. Injuries, like my hospital bills and physical therapy bills, sure it's a worker's comp claim but those will still be deducted from me and all of my fellow employees. New equipment, everything from Telxons to pallet jacks to stocking carts to apparently box cutters, comes out of our bonus (which is why 75% of everything is a piece of shit). Theft, also known as shrink, comes out of our bonus whether the perpetrators were employees or customers. I haven't been told one way or another but those stupid seasonal decorations in the break room that nobody asks for, I would bet dollars to donuts that those come out of our bonus too.
Take a few moments to think about this. Seriously stop and think about it. My CEO makes over a thousand times more than I do, and yet I and my fellow not-slaves are financially punished for needing even the most basic equipment. Despite the fact that for a while there they were requiring stockers to use Telxons, there aren't enough for them and for Inventory Management people, too. Sometimes there are actual fights over pallet jacks, and no matter how squeaky they get (because God forbid that Maintenance is allowed to store-use a grease gun, for the jacks that actually have grease fittings) we literally use them until the wheels fall off; we name them things like Fubar and Herniator for a reason. You think the shopping carts are in bad shape, you should see the carts we're forced to stock with. Deli was complaining the other day about how a bunch of their equipment simply isn't working correctly. It's a nightmare.
And then I see something like this and I think I'm getting heartburn.
Sun Jun 07, 2015 at 2:00 AM PT: While I'm happy to have made the rec list, I'm still wondering why this one made it and others, like terrible food-handling practices and the health department never responding to a mold complaint, didn't.