{"id":6172,"date":"2021-05-07T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6172"},"modified":"2021-05-07T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T18:00:08","slug":"my-job-is-super-cool-and-i-love-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6172","title":{"rendered":"My Job is Super Cool and I Love It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by <\/em>Jasey \u201cBring Out the Guillotines\u201d Roberts<\/span><\/p>\n

For those that don\u2019t know, when I\u2019m not disappointing my parents, I am usually working in a chain grocery store called Food Lion. I got hired at this place at the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, right when they were at their most desperate. I was seated across from a man who would soon become my boss (let\u2019s call him Slobber), and during the interview, I went on and on about how much experience I had in the retail industry. I\u2019d held down a job for seven months at Wal-Mart, and when I was working there, I\u2019d made $11 an hour.<\/span><\/p>\n

Slobber turned flush. \u201cWell, um. Actually. The most you\u2019re going to make in a place like this is $9.50. That is the best that I can do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And here\u2019s where I\u2019m thinking, \u201cThis guy is trying to shortchange me. $9.50?\u201d<\/span> But I hate job hunting, so I signed on anyway. In the intervening months of shucking groceries and having the PLU codes for every major produce item laser-burned into my memory forever, I began to notice a pattern. Whenever I brought up my wages to my fellow blue-shirted clinically depressed food lions, people seemed to get pissed off. There was a man who worked up front who had been working there for going on five years and he made the same amount of money that I did. $9.50 was the max. By Food Lion standards, Slobber really did come through!<\/span><\/p>\n

Now the VA minimum wage is going up to $9.50 exactly. Slobber texted me last week, framing it as if the company was being gracious: \u201cJust wanted to let you know- Food Lion\u2019s giving everyone a raise to $9.50!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOh gosh, really? But I already make exactly that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Slobber texted back, soberly: \u201cI do not know what your raise will be then.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It hit my bank account last Wednesday: a whole six dollars on my paycheck more than what it had been before! Thank you, Food Lion! Thank you, Slobber! Good truly prevails! I will use this additional six dollars to buy a salad with dressing for my next 10-min lunch break.<\/span><\/p>\n

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