It is the working conditions:
Can’t use the restroom until on an official break. Sometimes I worked six hours before I was allowed relief.
Store manager didn’t make necessary upgrades. We were using check out registers that were years old. Other stores had newer and he refused to invest the money. During August in Phoenix, AZ we had an air conditioner go out. It wasn’t until a customer passed out, he replaced it.
WM has a training program. It had modules one had to pass and progress until it was completed. It was difficult getting managers to allow me to get off the register and spend time completing the program. We were promised a one dollar an hour raise upon completion. There were times I had to wait 42 days in between completion of modules. Upon completion it was decided I wasn’t getting the one dollar an hour increase in pay just because my state passed minimum wage increase laws which surpassed what completion of the program would have bought me.
Checking ID for tobacco and alcohol.
Being screamed at by customers. I once had a customer who refused to let me grab the top of her soda bottle while scanning it.
Go backs.
Parents allowing their children to eat candy in the check out line and destroying the check out line.
All that for $9 an hour.
I’ll pass.
Yeah, I would not want to do it. Luckily I don’t have to now. But did some real crummy jobs in HS and college.
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.