Things you wish you could say

[Ponypoor]

So today is just a rolling dumpster fire. My grammy passed away this morning. As if that was not enough to deal with, as soon as we got to work, my sil and I were told that the boss will be laying off a lot of us. So, yeah. What I wish I could scream is nothing but an ever-lasting stream of profanities that would make a sailor blush and faint. And I cannot even say it here, either! I am moments from just breaking and getting my 15 minutes of fame on the 6 o'clock news.

I shall go and curse up a storm at the barn for you, we are Newfoundlanders, we are all sailors and we don’t blush easily

 

[Brooks_]

I shall go and curse up a storm at the barn for you, we are Newfoundlanderers, we are all sailors and we don’t blush easily

FIFY

 

[The Moonshiner]

My boss has been gone for 11 days just getting back today.
Work has been an absolute show the whole time.
I have nothing to report though and still have trouble with this concept.
I said everything I wished to and then some.
Think I'll do it again tomorrow.

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

So today is just a rolling dumpster fire. My grammy passed away this morning. As if that was not enough to deal with, as soon as we got to work, my sil and I were told that the boss will be laying off a lot of us. So, yeah. What I wish I could scream is nothing but an ever-lasting stream of profanities that would make a sailor blush and faint. And I cannot even say it here, either! I am moments from just breaking and getting my 15 minutes of fame on the 6 o'clock news.

 

[Kay-T-Hammer]

Thank you all for your condolences. Where everyone at work was worried about being laid off, I came up with the idea that if the boss fires us all because he did not make a crap ton more money than he wanted to (he still made a crap ton of profit, just not as much as he wanted to), then we are going to help ourselves to his toiletries and towels. Let him pay to replace all of that because he does not want to pay his employees even minimum wage. It is not like he put in money for security cameras or anything, so why not?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Thank you all for your condolences. Where everyone at work was worried about being laid off, I came up with the idea that if the boss fires us all because he did not make a crap ton more money than he wanted to (he still made a crap ton of profit, just not as much as he wanted to), then we are going to help ourselves to his toiletries and towels. Let him pay to replace all of that because he does not want to pay his employees even minimum wage. It is not like he put in money for security cameras or anything, so why not?

Isn’t not paying minimum wage illegal?

 

[Kay-T-Hammer]

Isn’t not paying minimum wage illegal?

I have no idea. I am not business savy at all. But I did say that he would bring in more guests if his resort did not look like a pit stain. He has the most atrocious furnishings, plant pots and lighting fixtures that do not match each other, and beds that collapse under guests in the night. He is also under the impression that dark wood looks amazing over baby-poop colored wallpaper. Who uses wallpaper anymore!? But "housekeepers are trash" and "we do not get to say what looks good in his hotel". Ok, Ginger Snap. You keep thinking these things. Your guests only keep coming back because it is the only hotel on the lake that always has rooms available (I wonder why that is? ). Oh, and the twat locked more than 100 tvs to the hospitality setting, and he cannot figure out how to remove it, so he is throwing all of them out. We housekeepers are going to swarm and take them all and I am going to teach them how to break the code (it is sometimes very helpful having friends that are geeks). A few are going to sell them on FB so that they can afford to get their kids something for Christmas. I will be giving mine to those that need the money more. And if we decide to have him suddenly completely out of fresh linen, I am donating all of that, too, to families who could really use it. Same with soaps and toilet paper.

 

[R2elk]

Isn’t not paying minimum wage illegal?

There are lots of places that pay cash "under the table". It's illegal but the employees go for it because they like the idea that there is no withholding for income tax, social security or medicare.

They unfortunately don't realize that they are not accumulating "quarters" towards social security retirement benefits.

 

[Kay-T-Hammer]

There are lots of places that pay cash "under the table". It's illegal but the employees go for it because they like the idea that there is no withholding for income tax, social security or medicare.

They unfortunately don't realize that they are not accumulating "quarters" towards social security retirement benefits.

What about those of use who get paid via a check? I get money taken out for Social Security and Medicare each week.

 

[Kay-T-Hammer]

What about those of use who get paid via a check? I get money taken out for Social Security and Medicare each week.

I just Googled it: Apparently NH's state legislation has, in short, made it so employers can pay pretty much whatever they want without too much consequence if it is below minimum wage.

I miss working at Walmart. Maybe I will apply at the Gilford Walmart.