>Got my first job, working in a warehouse owned by a major retailer through a recruitment firm
>One 30 minute, unpaid break per 8 hour shift
>Facility runs 24 hours a day, you get a semi-random assortment of 8 hour shifts in the morning, evening or night
>Overtime is mandatory, weekend work is mandatory
>The company has the right to stop and search you and your belongings/car at any time
>The company is not obligated to give you a reference or provide more than 8 hours per week of paid work
>The company has the right to inform you within 24 hours that you will be working 2-4 hours extra before or after your next shift
>Expected to work at any facility in a 35 mile radius with 24 hours notice
>No phones on the warehouse floor, metal detectors on entry and exit and bio-metric scanners track your work hours
>Can be terminated at any time for any reason with 1 weeks notice
Got my first job, working in a warehouse owned by a major retailer through a recruitment firm
Shit you need a better job lol
things that do not exist
Why?
So I can have more money and time to buy things I don't need to distract myself from the fact I live to work? A job is a job. Better working conditions doesn't change the underlying fact that we have two choices in life: death or slavery.
I can post the contract to prove it
nice book
I also have a warehouse job and you got fucked. I've got a night shift, ten hours a night four days a week, shift doesn't change. We get two 20 minute breaks and a 45 minute break for dinner. They seemingly don't give a shit about drug tests and didn't even ask for one when I applied. The only shitty thing is that they do sometimes cancel your shifts on very little warning but that's the type of thing you only deal with when you're on temp-to-hire and it's not a problem once you get hired for real.
shit dog, I used to work in a place like that, and guess what? jobs are like women, it's not about how many you've had or how many you get, it only matters that you're happy and free to fall in love, so do this warehouse gig while you're still young and when you're older, you'll appreciate what you got all the more, besides, if it's your first, chances are you've got at least 5 years till you get something you're really comfortable with and that's normal; ain't nothing wrong with the working class writer, and if reading's more your schtick, ain't nothing wrong with that either, hell, I've worked with illiterate folks before, back at the factory, and let me tell you, it was the most heartbreaking thing in the world
who owns that facility?
Argos in the UK, who are owned by Sainsbury's
>warehouse
Security guards get paid as much for 1/100th of the work
then:
death, slavery and freedom
It looks more like the labor conditions you would find in America, not in the UK.
i actually would like to see this contract if you can confidently anonymously post it.
i recently dropped out of uni in london and am soon applying for similar level jobs lol
The UK is in the process of copying every American business practice they can
American here,
Please don’t, it’s awful. I’ve personally worked with labor unions in the United States, both in making new ones and maintaining old ones, and they’ve become the absolute most toothless things because of decades of mounting political pressure
Also don’t you dare turn the NHS into an American style healthcare, the austerity WILL kill innocent people, and I’ve always quite liked how proud every Britonian was of their healthcare
>A job is a job.
You deserve your shitty work. You will be a slave for the rest of your life. Make no mistake though, it was and is your choice to be a slave.
You're no less a slave in your satin shackles
>not having a union job where you can do whatever the fuck and not get fired
he overstates it, our next pm will be relative centrist boris who will cut regulation but also turn on public spending taps massively. after that it will probably be a liberal supported corbyn minority who will buff labour protections outside eu restrictions. honestly quite comfy
Shut up and back to work underling
i am 21 and have never had a job. i will need one for the summer. i was thinking about applying to the amazon warehouse nearby because apparently you don't even need to interview and they just hire you, but this sounds like hell.
I can't post the PDF because it has my name plastered all over it but here's some of the relevant paragraphs
American Amazon worker, it’s a fucking shitshow to work at one. It’s essentially like a call center, in that both will make you hate your life, hate the job if not the very concept of work, and hate yourself for the time you wasted there for a meager paycheck
I got it by showing up just on a specified date no resume needed. So if you’re really desperate go for it, but if you can I’d say look elsewhere first.
>my first job
That's normal. Helps motivate you to not make it your last job as well.
thanks for my daily reminder to stay unemployed
>because apparently you don't even need to interview and they just hire you
This was true for me at Argos.
I walked in, there were 4 other applicants and they just sat us all down and were like "ok this is what you'll be doing, first up is some info then a tour then 4 weeks training". And I'm sat there like "D-Do I have a job now or?". They never even say "hey congratulations you're hired", they just throw a contract at you and say sign here here and here. It's bizarre.
how far ahead do you find out which shifts you will be working, is it a weekly thing?
Apparently Argos is very well organised as of recently so they'll give you a "fixed" rota that's good until March 2020. But that doesn't mean a whole lot when they're free to make you stay 2-4 hours extra whenever they want, cancel 80% of your shifts if they feel like it and other shit like that.
>2.1 (...) Employee shall not work in excess of the Working Week (...)
>3.1 Employee hereby agrees that the working week limit shall not apply
That's just brutal
>Better working conditions doesn't change the underlying fact that we have two choices in life: death or slavery.
So you made the OP just to get attention and gloat about how hard of a worker you are?
You deserve this "job" user, you deserve to be a slave.
No, I made it because it sounds like a fictional caricature of a job that Kaczynski would never have dreamed would actually be real.
Besides, I can just quit and/or kill myself at any time. I guarantee that'll be a thing in less than 50 years, contracts with clauses like "the employee hereby agrees to not commit suicide for the duration of their contracted employment" and they'll put a chip in your hand to stop you attempting it.
>britonian
Amazon?
that's actually super messed, i'm sorry user. i will strive to get a secretarial job or something over warehousing, thank you for the warning
Someone has never had a shit job. Yes, these company policies are a thing
Things to look forward to if a collapse of any magnitude does not happen
>microchips that alter thoughts and collect biometric info for advertising purposes
>advertisements linked directly with emotional drive I.e. you are made to want things
>bugs and tofu replace all meat
>work hours increase because microchips cure depression caused by questioning
>politics handled by an explicit globalist government (vs implicit right now)
>philosophy and art prohibited/done by ai
What else?