r/ThriftGrift

This is the worst job I have ever had. There are three or four co-workers with the privilege of getting to work the same position everyday while everyone else is rotated through cash, floor and production. Multiple co workers either too old or disabled to perform the job to the standards the company wants so it falls to all the young able bodied to do twice the work.

Almost all of my co-workers and managers are blatantly openly and proudly racist towards Indian and Muslim people, consistently accuse them of stealing and had a human rights complaint made causing the manager to inform us to no longer act as security and stop thieves. I told her I had never done that as it is not legally sound to do so by anyone except a security guard hired for that job.

A staff party was held, one co worker attacked another co worker violently after binge drinking for days. Victim filed a police report and asked for accomodation to no longer work with the attacker and management said nothing can be done as it happened off the property.

One of my coworkers is a proud Nick Feuntes fan, as a Canadian, and openly attempts to manipulate the women around him via lies, does not show up regularly or on time and a few weeks ago decided to tell me and a manager he had seen his cousin "splattered on the road" in a car crash only for it to be revealed to be a complete lie. When he is late,he gets a special wake up call telling him to come in.

The store is massive and will not offer public bathrooms despite a bylaw existing that they are obligated to. They instruct us to tell customers to use the store beside us or a fast food place across a parking lot. Multiple times old women have desperately looked at us about to shit and piss themselves and we have to shrug and say store policy. Yesterday I let a 95 year old woman who could barely walk use the bathroom and was reprimanded for not letting her openly piss on the floor instead. I had a panic attack and went home after an hour on shift and being asked 97 times by customers for a bathroom.

Two people have gone on mental health breaks in the past two months due to the store. There is one woman who has no authority but is keeping tabs on every staff member and accusing all of them of stealing in really unhinged ways - the other day a manager was asking her if she saw her work gloves and this staff member said someone must have pocketed them and glared right at me - as if anyone is stealing used torn dirty work gloves.

Our "goal" is 1300 articles of clothing each day across three people, they now only have 2 on shift due to call outs and still want 1300. When two girls could only get out 700 in the heat wave with no working AC where indoor temps were 29 Celsius they were reprimanded. They do not care about a goal for housewares though and only the managers favourites are allowed to work in that production.

My work friend said she worked in a strip club that respected staff more than this with less drama. I am spending my next three days applying for whatever job I can just to get out of here. The only benefit they offer is 30% off discount but yesterday a local competitor had a sale of 40% off clothing - just as a regular sale. Its just 8 hours straight of back breaking labour surrounded by the absolute worst people one can possibly even keep in the workforce. Many of these people would not be hired anywhere else, if they even passed the interview stage.

I know, I know, don’t @ me but I have a free day without kids so I went thrifting (for my kids, obvi). Anyway, I’m checking out and they ask if I want to round up to support their mission, which I don’t for a myriad of reasons, so I say “not today.” Then she has the audacity to ask me if I’d round up a dime! I said “I’m sorry?” Because surely I didn’t hear her correctly. And she said, “Would you round up just ten cents?” Definitely not now lady!!! wtf!!! Prices are already out of control, no!!

I hope this kid puts that money to good use!!