I recently blogged about my problems at Bristol Farms and how I was treated. I busted my ass for my employer but in the end, I was fucked over. The question is, is it worth working at Markets, it is not. You will live paycheck to paycheck, but you can't pay the bills or the rent living on your own in California or anywhere else, because this economy is crippled it will never be fixed and people will continue to struggle everyday living and working slave jobs for shit pay. Do you think the corporations care? Fuck No they don't and corporations are a part of the problem as they continue to control the food supply and costs in this country when it shouldn't be. When I was a kid growing up in Hacienda Heights I remember how the politics were taxing food, which is so ILLEGAL. Most of what goes on in this country is illegal, but citizens are too STUPID to know this.
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you will never enjoy a retirement or have a real vacation, because you never made enough money (ALL YOUR LIFE) working at markets. Once you do retire you realize wow, this SHIT SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK, doesn't pay my rent or food. Now you're FUCKED and you're too OLD to do anything about it. It won't matter if you live in California or another state as there are many factors in how the system works against everyone. Moving to another state where the rent is less, means so is the wage and you still need to work. It won't make any difference wherever you go your money is affected by how you live. Mexico is one reason why people from Europe are moving there and self-employed (working online) it's the only rent that is reasonable. The answer purchase land, now. See there are only three ways to make a living 1) work for yourself 2) work for someone else, and 3) be an executive (most people will never be at this level). Another factor of moving is having the means, if you are living paycheck to paycheck how are you going to move? Families don't want to work and stick together for the common good of survival, instead, everyone is fighting with each other and that is a waste of time and energy, with a lack of understanding, education, and creating goals to have sustainability is keeping families apart and broken and politics love it.
When I worked at Sprouts it was the most abusive environment I have been subjected to. I always worked Deli which is the hardest department in any store, customers are demanding and verbally abusive and co-workers are backstabbing and ass kissers bringing toxic shit into the environment. I finally was fed up and walked out. All people who were hired were promised 40 hours, which only happened the first two weeks, and then the hours were cut in half. It was unfortunate being in a new location I thought it would be positive, but it wasn't the training was awful, and upper management was vindictive instead of being supportive. So now being a customer of Sprouts nothing has changed, and the people are miserable, I can see it, very unhappy which affects the customer service. Working at Lassen's Organic Market was a SWEAT - SHOP, again abuse from this white racist family. Mr. Lassens' white kids were allowed high-paying management jobs which is nepotism. Only a few close friends of his otherwise no one else could move up, but all the rest of us were given empty promises of raises and opportunities and it's the reason over 25 employees walked out before I left after 6 months of busting my ass off. I later took filed with the labor dept and received $2000 which this labor dept also fucked me out of money. I was able to prove all stubs and wages but Mrs. Hines thought it was okay to cheat me as well. Our entire system we live under is all FRAUD and THEFT so who gives a fuck some kid tries to steal food, when the politicians have run this country so bad into the ground, don't be surprised if YOU ASS-WADS talking shit on YOU TUBE don't end up in the same situation. YES YOU CAN, you are NOT special!
See I am a hard worker by nature, but not one fucken employer I have ever had benefited me, so I don't give a FUCK if some kid wants to STEAL GROCERIES fuck the CORPORATINS!!! THESE MOTHER FUCKERS ROB CONSUMERS DAILY!! Let me explain this about Lassen Market claiming to be ORGANIC. The word itself is only a word and marketing STRATEGY understand? If you want ORGANIC make it and grow it yourself with your own TWO HANDS, otherwise it's all processed!!
The owner buys from tons of vendors claiming to be organic for pennies on the dollar, then turns around and jacks up the price by 80% to sell to consumers. As I worked in the kitchen and deli, many times everything was so dysfunctional, food would be delivered and wasn't put away fast enough, and the loads would be sitting outside in the heat. The owner rents out the smallest empty buildings and then crams every area of a market including workers into this "sweatshop" of a store and expects everyone to work comfortably? NO! It's not the case at all everyone has to work in poor conditions. People who left Whole Foods making $30 an hour were now working at Lassen's making $20 an hour. Yet the tax doesn't change, does it? In this Echo Park area, the kitchen was in poor shape no proper area for washing dishes with proper machinery, the stove was very old and broken down, and it took months until a new one was purchased. If you had a personal emergency of any kind and didn't call, you were FIRED!! Lassen Markets are in rural areas to enslave people of color. The hot food was the hardest because many times missing ingredients were the problem in getting the food out. And not all ingredients were organic we had to make do with what we had at the time.