Kallainanna posted... Some of the hardest workers I ever encountered. Usually total sweethearts too!
I remember working at Whole Foods in the Bakery as recently as last year. They sold tons of cakes and pastries out of the case (especially on weekends and especially ESPECIALLLY around holidays) and accepted a large volume of custom orders, yet they only ever had two full-time cake decorators and one part-time cake decorator. They were all stressed the fuck out approximately 120% of the time.
Of course, it was little better up front: they would often have two openers, but they only ever had one mid and one closer (I closed FML), which got especially hilarious if the mid called out or one of the managers: they would invariably spend a lot of time in the office in back, and one was infamous for pulling a ton of shit out of the freezer with the expectation we would pack it all out- except the mid and closer had a ton of other things to attend, particularly dealing with customers, which means when that particular manager worked, product would often sit out for as many as six hours without actually being packed out because we were so overwhelmed- which technically means it should have been spoiled out, but LOL it never was. And I was a pretty efficient packer, even!
Some nights I would just go into the walk-in cooler in the kitchen and just kneel on the floor and cry. I don't know what amount of money would make that experience worthwhile, but it wasn't $18/hr.
It's a pity, there was a stretch of time where we did have two closers and it was actually a pretty good work experience then.
I work for the USDA and am almost solely around immigrants unless management and supervisors are around. Its insane how hard they work for what they get paid. Granted, some do make well over $15 an hour, but for a lot of the unskilled jobs just cutting up meat they bust their ass doing their jobs.