Little bit of backstory: prior to covid I worked at a youth center (combination emergency shelter and drop-in center) for 4 years. I really liked it. My primary responsibilities were; keeping the kids supervised and entertained, connecting them to other services, cooking and light cleaning, facilitating workshops on resumes/job searching, communication, and life skills, advocacy with schools, medical personnel and social workers, and some administrative duties. Mostly I felt like I was just hanging out with these kids and generally enjoying their company.
That's not to say I loved every aspect of the job; there were some scary interactions with our more belligerent clients, heartbreak watching kids slip through the cracks, occasional tension with management and colleagues, frustration getting kids the help they needed when the bureaus responsible for helping the kids seemed to always have incredibly tight pockets. But I never once seriously entertained quitting and when my position was eliminated I was genuinely sad to go. For the record, I made $2.75 above minimum wage when I was laid off.
Fast forward to now; I moved cities because my husband got a job opportunity within his company. He's a manager at a grocery store. I decided to start working at his store instead of staying on EI. I'm cashiering and holy fuck it sucks.
I'm on my feet all day (and halfway into my shift I am IN PAIN... feet, knees, back), doing incredibly mundane, repetitive tasks, dealing with customers in a very covid unsafe way, super understimulated and overwhelmed simultaneously, feeling micromanaged and treated like I'm an imbecile or a child... I absolutely hate it.
I think it would be more bearable if I wasn't getting paid minimum wage. If I was making $17-$18 an hour I would probably be a little bit happier about it. But instead I'm making $12 an hour for what essentially feels like torture. And we all know for a fact that these huge retailers that get thousands of customers a day can afford to pay more.
But retail is low skilled you say! A monkey could do it! Maybe so. But any person with a modicum of emotional intelligence and decent communication skills could do my last job at the youth center. You could be trained to do that job within a week or two. And at that job, I got to laugh, got to watch movies, play board games and video games, play pool, sit down for half of my shift, got free food, got to dress and do my hair basically however I wanted, when I worked overnights at the shelter I got paid to watch Netflix for hours and got to feel like I was making a little bit of a difference in the kid's lives. My favorite part of the job was just talking to our clients and trying to help them through whatever difficulty they were facing... or just being there for them. It was the kind of job I would have happily accepted minimum wage for.
TL;DR: Corporate retail jobs are sickeningly underpaid, not sure why workers haven't revolted yet.
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