I do cross fit (please don’t skewer me too much), and my gym is populated by people who either eat paleo, take questionable workout supplements like candy or both. I’ve yet to give in to the temptation to point out that those two things involve a whole lot of cognitive dissonance. I did however have to explain to one…

Replace racism with victim blaming.

Those people are the reason I stopped working Sunday shifts.

Did you wash your hand in Holy Water afterwards? I would have dove headfirst into the baptismal font.

I went to a church that served some kind of homemade flat bread at communion instead of the wafer. My grandfather nearly blew his top when I said I preferred it because I didn’t like eating something that sucked all the moisture out of my mouth (it also actually tasted like bread). Apparently the wine helps with that,…

Some people can find a lot of good in a terminal diagnosis, but a lot also find a painful and dehumanizing experience. To watch someone you love go through that is hell on earth, and I’m sorry you and your mother are in that position. I hope this is approved, so that she and others like her have a say in how their…

When you first start a job your rights to medical care for a workplace injury needs to be drilled into the heads of every employee, and probably sledgehammered into that of their managers. And a poster put up in a very conspicuous place with emergency phone numbers.

You will appreciate David Mitchell’s views on customer service.

Happy Labor Day

I hope they’ve been sued for it.

I had my GM write me up for not being happy enough, and that even though I’d lost a parent due to a long and painful illness it had happened nearly a year ago and that I needed to get over my depression and get on medication or into therapy or I wouldn’t have a job. As is the case with most restaurants, I didn’t…

I was bullied into signing a form and made to promise that I would not seek medical attention.

I’m currently in the middle of a really bad case of contact dermatitis. Several people at my gym gave suggested using something one girl makes that has six or seven different essential oils and a few additional carrier oils as a cure. They looked at me weird when I pointed out that plant extracts can contain hundreds…

Because regardless of their skill set (and every job needs some kind of skills), people should be able to pay their basic living costs. In some areas, $15 an hour doesn’t even cover it.

I’ve read in a few places that she might be a test case for the legal group representing her. If that’s the case, I hope these are her sincere beliefs and she completely understands what’s going on and she hasn’t been pushed into this by a lawyer because I can’t see any way she’s going to win this case in any court,…

The lengths to which corporations go to avoid taking social responsibility is astonishing, from not paying workers a fair wage to elaborate tax dodging schemes. Apparently they only have a social conscience about this that don’t cost too much and can be used for PR purposes.

Every time I hear that kind of thing I picture the person saying it as a screaming toddler.

I think most people should do menial work at some point in their life, but that’s because I believe that many people are incapable of learning empathy without first hand experience. But that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be paid for it.

Didn’t the John in Papa John’s complain about this when Obamacare was passed? That he’d have to raise prices by a few cents to cover the cost and the consumers wouldn’t like it, but they actually had no problem with it.

I work with someone like that right now and they’re rare and wonderful people.