Labor Shall Rule
24th June 2009, 17:11
I am currently a wage slave at Waldameer (http://www.waldameer.com/), a family "fun" amusement park. I hate it. I work ten to twelve hours a day, cooking funnel cakes for fat, white tourists. The park employs up to four hundred workers — most who work in the concessions department with me — and everyone has their own stories of how we get irritated with management. I was nearly fired after a health inspector showed up at my stand and gave the park a noncritical violation on the account that I didn't have my hat on when I was providing some luscious dip-and-dots to my customers. I was never provided with a hat by my supervisors, so it was not a problem that I could have prevented.
I thought it was just a "summer job" so I tried not to complain. But a good friend from my school, who also works around the fryers, recently had an accident. He fell into the boiling tub of grease, and suffered some pretty nasty burns on his arm. They made him drive home — which was a very painful experience because of his injury. This lead me to ask some questions: he was seriously injured while he was at his workplace, couldn't he get a few days off and receive some form of remuneration from management? Are there any legal repercussions for management, since they made him leave the park without any medical attention? I'm not sure if this is the right forum to ask questions like this in!
I thought it was just a "summer job" so I tried not to complain. But a good friend from my school, who also works around the fryers, recently had an accident. He fell into the boiling tub of grease, and suffered some pretty nasty burns on his arm. They made him drive home — which was a very painful experience because of his injury. This lead me to ask some questions: he was seriously injured while he was at his workplace, couldn't he get a few days off and receive some form of remuneration from management? Are there any legal repercussions for management, since they made him leave the park without any medical attention? I'm not sure if this is the right forum to ask questions like this in!