Posted on 12/15/2018 9:31:10 AM PST by EdnaMode
Some people know how to make an entrance, while others specialize in exits.
On December 6th, 17-year old Jackson Racicot posted a video titled, “How I quit my job today,” on Facebook. As of today, the video has been viewed nearly 300,000 times.
The teen quit his job at the Walmart Grande Prairie Supercentre in Alberta, Canada, by reading a prepared speech into a store-wide intercom system, Insider reports.
“Attention all shoppers, associates and management, I would like to say to all of you today that nobody should work here, ever,” he said over the speakers. “Our managers will make promises and never keep them.”
During his remarks, Racicot noted that he has been working for Walmart for over a year and a half, and calls out his assistant manager for insulting him.
”[Management] will preach to us about how they care about their employees but about a month ago, my boss, assistant manager Cora called me a ‘waste of time,’ and management did nothing.”
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Where else can an MR get a job as a checker?
I’m okay with it. I don’t have to get my hair done with cut and color every six weeks or eyebrow waxes. I don’t have to get manicures and pedicures every two weeks. I don’t have to invest in makeup or jewelry. Don’t have to wear pantyhose, suits, and heels anymore either. Pantyhose is expensive... six bucks or more per pair.
I also don’t have to drive since I work at home.
I still get a small monthly retirement stipend and at 62 will get social security and my husband has made sure I will be taken care of.
That is a food stamp benefit card and you have to qualify.
One more thing: The only holiday WM workers get is Christmas Day. But here’s the rub: If you’ve been there long enough to earn time off you are forced to use your own leave for that day.
I’d rather just be docked and kept the time on the books.
Electronic benefit transfer (EBT) is an electronic system that allows state welfare departments to issue benefits via a magnetically encoded payment card, used in the United States. The cards I’ve seen are in the many, many hundreds, NOT the $125 limit.
“On the flip-side he’ll definitely want to bury, to the extent that he can at this point, that he ever worked there.”
He shoulda thought of that before he let his ego do the talking. Now the news has it as part of the public record.
Smart move, kid.
Personally, this young man’s actions would not cause me to hesitate to offer him a job. Kid has a sense of humor and a good idea about how to treat others with respect. Nothing to dislike about that.
Nice. But needs to have ‘diaper pins’ instead of ‘safety pins’ in the picture. Big difference in them.
I didn’t say benefits were limited to 125 a mo.
I didn’t infer that you did, but once qualified, the freeloader can add-on much more than just “food benefits”.
Walmart hired many at the store I helped open and run through the Christmas selling time at 40 hours. They claimed the cutback in hours was not to get back to their normal operating expenses. It was to cut it to the bone to make money as January is slower in sales.
And they didn’t care who they screwed. They made a contract with me for a forty hour work week and an amount of monthly wage. They did this with almost all of the training staff and more experienced associates. When they got through their time frame, they tossed it all out and played by their own rules after that. They are there to make money on anyone’s back they see fit to step on. And the local area is part of the backs needed.
rwood
We had cashiers who were arrested by law enforcement in the store who had sold tobacco and alcohol to minors. That really scared the heck out of me. I started to card everyone after that. One customer yelled at me and called me a fing moron because I carded him. I pretty much decided after that it was time to look for another job. There are minimum wage jobs everywhere now.
And it bothered me I was promised a raise upon completion of their training program and then was denied just because our state passed minimum wage laws that surpassed what I would have earned with the dollar raise and completion of the program.
I also wanted to transfer to another position in the store but they wouldn’t let you until completion of the program. But if they hired you off the street you could be hired to work anywhere in the store. Does that make sense?
I made it a year and it was the worst year of my life.
The rough side is he lacks the experience to know when and how to fight the battles. Stepping on the people that foot the bill in public without legal recourse, and an attorney that would have told him to shut his mouth, is not a wise move. And sometimes even with that, he indicates to me he doesn’t understand the way business is transpired and would be a bit of a gamble to hire in a public theater. He needed to keep his opinions and attacks between him and the company until he decided to go to a legal aspect. That’s how business is done.
In some states, an act like that is considered unlawful even for a patron. In Washington State, where I live private property is any property owned by private persons and not by the government or reserved for public use. Private property includes buildings and real estate as well as objects and intellectual property. People who own property have the right to manage it and control it. A store, for example, is private property. Offering merchandise for sale implies an invitation to enter, but the store owner is entitled to ban someone from coming in. The person could be a suspected shoplifter or a troublemaker, or he can be banned for any reason, as long as it is not based on bias against a federally protected class of people.
State Law RCW 9A.52.115
So he could be removed and his job terminated for what he did. He was not prepared and would not understand why because he didn’t read the law. Is it enforced in Washington State? If the owner requests the police to remove someone from their property after they request him to leave and he refuses, they will respond and arrest him for trespassing. And it’s happened more than once. He could also end up in court for slander for that.
I’m not saying he’s wrong or right as I was not there to witness the incident. But in this case, he has no right to his opinion publicly the way he did it without being unlawful. It was an attempt to chase away patrons and potential employees from a public business. And its intent was going to cost them financial loss. And without a legal precedence, his stuff is in the wind. He was stupid for doing it that way.
rwood
Without going into detail, I am an expert on RCW 9A.52.070, 080, and 090.
The section 115 is only the declaration form. The sections I cited are the substantive sections. The young man did not violate the substantive sections.
I’ve read much of the case law on this statute. He did not violate them based on the information in the article.
Please don’t try and convince me I am wrong. You will lose. I am very well known at the Washington State Supreme Court, and at the WSP. My screen name is a excellent clue.
“There are minimum wage jobs everywhere now.”
By federal law, a company can establish their wages based upon the lowest minimum wage of all the states they do business in. If a state somewhere within the US has a lower minimum wage amount of the area you are working in, and they do business in that state, they can use that wage. So if the area you are in is higher than another state, they don’t have to give you that wage and notoriously don’t. Their commitment is to their prime stockholders, not their employees. They let you know that at every team pep talk right before they open in the morning. And God help you if don’t think that way. You will have your hours cut till you will starve to death working, or not working. And you will be forced to quit and look elsewhere.
This has been an area I have talked about with our representatives that minimum wage is not a workable wage. That amount is for jobs that are not expected to be a profitable or important position the company depends upon for the overall success of the company like high school kids or others that wrap packages at Christmas or someone to go out and get the store carts at a certain point in the day like at mid day or after closing. Not high education or stress jobs that people train for. But as long as the use of minimum wage is wide open, it can be used instead of an entry level wage which can be for the anything from the mail room to a junior sales person. But that is for the young employee trying to become someone within the company at some time in their life. But entry level doesn’t exist so unless you go to work for a company interested in the advancement and improvement of their employees, then you work for companies like Walmart who can replace you in a minute because there are that many people that are willing to do a hard job for peanuts.
rwood
Well WM lost me. They just had too many expectations for minimum wage.
I’d rather cook burgers at Wendy’s for a lot less stress.
I think there was a 70 percent turnover rate for the front end cashier job and I can understand why.
As a customer, just know what going in.
BTW, even after a year I still hadn’t met their scans per minute job expectation.
I appreciate your position but the one I used was RCW 9A.52.105 which states:
(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3) of this section and upon the receipt of a declaration signed under penalty of perjury, in the form prescribed in RCW 9A.52.115, declaring the truth of all of the required elements set forth in subsection (4) of this section, a peace officer shall have the authority to:
(a) Remove the person or persons from the premises, with or without arresting the person or persons; and
(b) Order the person or persons to remain off the premises or be subject to arrest for criminal trespass.
(2) Only a peace officer having probable cause to believe that a person is guilty of criminal trespass under RCW 9A.52.070 for knowingly entering or remaining unlawfully in a building considered residential real property, as defined in RCW 61.24.005....
And 105 did not separate, but identified the aspect of real property in it’s declaration as buildings also. So there is no difference from a residence or a business.
The further parts of the RCW are available on line. But your determining 115 is not the correct way to do it, is only a technicality as it is the format to get it done. 105 is the action part of the follow on to removal. And that’s what creates the need for 115. Unlawful entry or non removal after request is subject to arrest. Thank you for your entry. Good luck.
rwood
A friend that worked at a large chain retailer described how management would keep hours to a minimum for customer-service types due to budgets, and he’d be sent home even as the store was filling with customers (knowing his co-workers would suffer). These jobs aren’t just unfit to raise a family; they are predicated on the assumption of high turnover in a race to find the workers with the lowest expectations/highest pain tolerance. When you spend time working there with little to show for it afterwards (this is NJ, a high-cost state) then it is no wonder young people walk away from these jobs.
This idiot has a problem because a Google search by a future employer will reveal what he did; not smart.
I’m sorry to hear about your predicament; happened in the private sector as well. Unfortunately, you might have been picked up by another agency if they weren’t required to pay your former salary. Older public-school teachers (who make 6 figures here in NJ for 180 part-time days of work) have described problems with their principals because the schools could hire two new teachers (at least) for that cost; not only is the pay inflated several times that of a private-school teacher, but it creates a situation in which the teachers themselves would face significant pay cuts if they took other jobs. They are tied to those union jobs, even to specific districts, because no other employer would pay them even half of what they rake in.
You describe being laid off; people in government jobs that aren’t laid off often keep those jobs forever (for reasons described above).
“The kid had more guts than 99% of adult workers.”
The adult workers have 1000 times the financial responsibilities of the kid. Americans have learned: If employers will abuse them because they know they have to pay the costs of families and mortgages, then they’ll have neither - and that is exactly what has happened. Now we aren’t trafficking Third Worlders here as workers (automation is making them increasingly irrelevant); we are trafficking them here as CONSUMERS. It is no accident that in dying states (like my state of NJ) the foreigners aren’t just working the registers - they are the main body of customers. Most importantly, the government employee caste needs them as “clients” - primarily as schoolchildren. More than half the schools in my town would close if we didn’t have imported foreigners (many anchor babies) filling the seats.
In the meantime, young Americans just transition into a lifestyle very different from 30 years ago; they’ll go to the grave without ever having children, owning a home, or even owning a car - they’ll rent everything and simply fade away.
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