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Unpaid Training
If a company says they want you to do a shift for
free to learn the job, or to come in and waste a day
watching eight hours of poorly produced training
videos, just imagine how else they’re going to try to
take advantage of you when they’ve got you locked in
and living paycheck to paycheck.
If there are other jobs to apply for in your area,
apply for them.
Know your rights as an employee.
Not every employer is an evil soulless corporation
trying to exploit their workers for commercial gain at
the cost of their time and happiness and self-esteem.
Just most of them.
Any time a company has a dress code that
requires you to wear their brand colors, or anytime
you find yourself being handed a paper hat or a visor
or polo shirt to wear for work that job’s probably going
to suck.
Unless the uniform is designed to insure your
health and safety, it’s an insult to your dignity as a
human being.
If you’re working with inhalable carcinogens and
your employer wants you to use a respirator, they’re
not trying to humiliate you, they’re trying to keep you
from getting cancer and dying.
Let the wookie win.
It makes sense that your employer will expect you
to wear pants and shoes and not show up to work
with anything that’s visibly soiled, ridiculously
offensive to other people, or too strongly scented.
But if you find yourself bursting out of a kitchen
wearing suspenders with all sorts of “wacky” pins
pinned onto them clapping and singing a jingle
surrounding a brownie with a single candle jammed
into the middle of it, you probably know you fucked up
and die a little more inside every day you show up to
work.
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