cashier: sorry for your wait. we’re short-staffed today
millennial: oh that’s ok no worries :)
baby boomer:
But listen that’s the thing.
We are short staffed almost 97% of the time at my retail job. Because corporate has figured out you can overwork 4 people at minimum wage instead of paying for the 8 people you should probably have to be on the clock.
Baby boomers grew up with stores that were adequately staffed, with workers who most likely had weeks of training for their jobs as opposed to the 1-2 shadow shift training we get now. Also those workers most likely were able to be full time if they wanted. Now retail, except for management positions, is mostly made up of part time workers, because you don’t have to give them benefits. So you have a workforce of perpetually underpaid, overwhelmed, undertrained people trying to do their best all while dealing with an entire generation of people who refuse to acknowledge that the system has changed and the average retail worker has NO control over that change and is being taken advantage of.
Like we got our customer surveys back, and almost every single one mentioned that they couldn’t find someone to help them or we needed more people on register because it was TOO SLOW, but what did management tell us instead of scheduling more people? We need to be quicker on register and call for backup if necessary. Which makes no sense because we can’t call for backup THAT ISN’T THERE.
I’m going to publicly acknowledge my embarrassment that I never connected these dots before
““This is about the time, when I talk about politics, that the
Internet trolls tell me to stick to my day job,” the actor said. “I’d
like to talk about my day job. My day job is the chairman and the
co-founder of Thorn. We built software to fight human trafficking and
the sexual exploitation of children. My other day job is that of the
father of two, a 2-month old and 2-year-old.”
He then described joining the FBI in raids in India, Russia, Mexico and stateside in New Jersey and New York.
“I’ve seen things that no person should ever see,” he said, tearing
up. “I’ve seen video content of a child that is the same age as mine
being raped by an American man that was a sex tourist in Cambodia. This
child was so conditioned by her environment that she thought she was
engaging in play.”
He continued, “I’ve been on the other end of a phone call from my team
asking for my help because we had received a call from the Department of
Homeland Security, telling us that a 7-year-old girl was being sexually
abused and that content was being spread on the Dark Web … They’d
watched her for three years and they could not find the perpetrator, [and were] asking us for help. We were the last line of defense. An actor and his foundation were the last line of defense.”
“I had to say no and it devastated me, it haunted me,” Kutcher said,
choking up again. “For the next three months I had to go to sleep every
night and think about that little girl that was being abused and the
fact that if I built the right thing, we could have saved her. Now, if I
got that phone call, the answer would be yes.”
He then recalled the story of “Amy,” a 15-year-old girl from Oakland,
Calif., who was forced into trafficking within hours of meeting a man
in person she’d first talked to online. “This isn’t an isolated
incident. There’s not much that’s unusual about it,” Kutcher said. “The
only unusual thing is that ‘Amy’ was found and returned to her family
within three days using a tool we created … called Spotlight.”
Kutcher said the tool aids police in cutting investigation time by 60
percent, adding, “That’s my day job and I’m sticking to it.”
It wasn’t all heavy: Kutcher and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) had a lighthearted moment after his speech. “You were better looking in the movies,” McCain said.
