If I’m legitimately sick, I can still be paid. They say things like, ‘Good job coming into work, we know times are crazy right now.’ It’s nothing but vague encouragement and all this kumbaya shit. The reassurance we’re getting from upper management is stuff I don’t need to hear. We’re understaffed so everyone is constantly running around. To be fair, most of the customers have been doing a decent job of being clean but putting my life at risk doesn’t feel worth it right now. In the store now it’s impossible to know who’s carrying the virus. You need your time to decompress but the longer you take the longer somebody else is struggling. Now, though, it’s almost like you feel guilty taking lunch because you know how bad it is on the floor. Usually I take a late lunch because if you take a late lunch you only have three more hours left after that. You can either take an early lunch, which would be after three hours, or you can take a late lunch, which is after four hours. They’re pretty good about giving us a schedule where we’re not going crazy just doing one thing. So, for example, recently I was on register for one hour and then I was on product - which is going into the back and putting stuff up on the floor - then I was RA, which is a register’s assistant. How it works is management moves us around every hour. So not a lot of us are taking vacations and shit. We’re here at the store because we need to be here at the store. They offer something called AR, which is paid leave if you want to take vacation time and still want to get paid, but I’ve been there a year and I have something like $500 in there. There’s healthcare offered, which is nice, but that’s the only real benefit. I did four years of college but I didn’t get a degree and I owed money and so I was like, what can I do? Trader Joe’s seemed like a perfect place. They pay me around $17 an hour, which is decent. This isn’t what I want to do for my career but it’s just something to have money in my pocket. I’ve worked at this Trader Joe’s for a year - it was my one year anniversary last week as a matter of fact. We were out of pasta and rice within an hour. That first day, March 13, we almost immediately ran out of product. The employees are scared, the customers are scared - it’s chaos. That makes it impossible to check out more than 10 or so customers an hour. We only have 32 registers plus we are now required to wash our hands every five minutes. Some people get mad but they have to understand people are buying 30-50 items. They then have to get in another line to begin the checkout process. And when people get into the store they immediately get in a line to pick out their items. Since the first day of panic buying on March 13th, it’s been single file from the bank to our entrance. Interviewed March 25 : About a block and a half from the Trader Joe’s I work at is a Bank of America. Wealthsimple makes powerful financial tools to help you grow and manage your money.
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