I wake myself up dreaming about work, but that's never on my paycheck...

[Fawkes]

Maybe this belongs in "Non-Political", but either way, reading this was so refreshing. Just knowing that I'm not alone in feeling this way is a very comforting thing.

Coping with Clopening: Retail Workers' Most Dreaded Shift (http://www.iww.org/en/content/coping-clopening-retail-worker’s-most-dreaded-shift)

[Ele'ill]

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[Fawkes]

hmm, well here's a website that has all of the stories on it. It was a series of short stories about the relationship between sleep, dreams, and work. http://recomposition.info/tag/sleep/

[Permanent Revolutionary]

I'm sorry, but do Starbucks emplyees have to wash their own uniforms?

[Fawkes]

I'm sorry, but do Starbucks emplyees have to wash their own uniforms?

Apparently so, but I'm not sure, I don't work at Starbucks.

[#FF0000]

I'm sorry, but do Starbucks emplyees have to wash their own uniforms?

If it's like any other fast food place, then yes and they only have one uniform.

[Permanent Revolutionary]

Ok. I would think they changed clothes on the job, but I've never worked at a fast-food place, so I may just be ignorant.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Just knowing that I'm not alone in feeling this way is a very comforting thing.

I think we tend to overlook some of the anecdotal and "small" things about daily labor sometimes in trying to grapple with the bigger and more fundamental issues. But having space for people to give their personal experiences and frustrations is so important... especially for the "invisible men and women" of service jobs. We're presented as smiling robots in TV commercials and people literally have no idea how demoralizing and shitty it is to do that kind of work.

It helps people feel less alone, shows how universal and systematic some of the "minor gripes" about working conditions are, and counters our social conditioning to pretend we don't mind work or can barely support ourselves.

[TheAltruist]

I feel for whoever has to do this. It's got to be just terrible to work like that. Of course it can't help that Republicans try to turn away younger workers by calling Occupy and socialists "lazy moochers."

[Qavvik]

Reminds me of my job, except the retail chain I work at is open on a 24 hour basis and has a nasty habit of repressing unions by all means, legal and illegal, available to it. Just the other day (yesterday in fact) I learned that I will now be staying at my post after my shift has ended because some assistant manager has decreed that we must now be relieved by them, when they see fit of course. They also denied me my holiday bonus on an account that I had not worked there six months; I was hired on June 16 and the six month period ended on December 24. I guess the stores apparent "record profits" must have been spread too thin after giving us those astronomical wages. :rolleyes: