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   Balzarharry :unverified: (balzarharry@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 31-Oct-2022 05:27:04 JST Balzarharry :unverified:
   The people who want to punch you for being a nazi can't even do an 8 hour shift at Starbucks. My fucking sides.
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     TurboNormie (turbonormie@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 31-Oct-2022 05:27:03 JST TurboNormie

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     @Balzarharry >Unionized retail
     
     This isn't going to work out like they think it will. Myself and practically everyone at my high school worked for this one grocery chain that was unionized and it was an absolute joke. The trick is that the members build a wall around their pay and benefits by introducing a lengthy "probationary" period where you're stuck paying dues with none of the benefits. At this chain that period was 8 months and both the members and management did everything in their power to get you fired or run off before then.
     
     Sure, Der Ewige Boomer working as a butcher made $20 per hour back when that was really good money but they were just as incentivized as management was to keep full union headcount down to a minimum lest they lose their fat paychecks and pensions in the next contract negotiation. Retail margins are thin, there is a limit to what labor can actually get away with before killing the business itself and unionized retailers all eventually find this stable equilibrium. What future Starbucks employees will wind up with is a privileged caste of the absolutely most insufferable "die hards" who have so little going for them in life that working as a barista for 40+ years is their life dream and being actively forced out of the job to an increasing degree every day they get closer to full membership in the union.
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     TurboNormie (turbonormie@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 31-Oct-2022 05:27:16 JST TurboNormie

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     @Balzarharry Just thinking back on that time period and remembered a good example of how they'd force you out. Management set the schedule and a union shift leader would set your work assignments. One of my buddies got very close to the end of the probationary period so management tried to only schedule him on bad weather days and the shift lead would put him exclusively on cart/trash/outdoor stocking duty every time.
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