What did I miss about Tom and Chipotle?
Oh, he’s been working there for a couple of years, and liking it less and less. Most recently, he was promoted to “service manager,” but they still want to pay him less than Pat is making as a stocker at Walmart, and the rep from Corporate said that Tom’s even wanting to discuss being paid a market wage was “a bad sign.”
The store where he works keeps losing employees, so the remaining ones work harder and longer - but never overtime! - and finals are coming up. He could find a new job this week and then quit, but he’s applied for some summer jobs in his field of study - saving river and mountains - so he doesn’t want to take another restaurant job or retail job right now.
DP and I agreed that he can quit Chipotle if that would give him time to work harder at school for the next six weeks, and we’ll pay his May rent. (Maybe June, too, but I didn’t offer that up front.) If he doesn’t get one of the environmental jobs, he can get a regular job when the semester is over.