Lol. I’ve been in supervisory positions before, but never involved with scheduling. My posts come from experience with how the world works.

I’m not sure where you got the idea that hourly workers somehow completely dictate their own schedules, or that a company “cannot insist [you] come in during a time period when [you] previously told them [you were] not available,” but your viewpoint is 100% divorced from reality. And not even from a “well actually…

“easily su[ing]” requires that you establish that the policy was implemented to target the protected class or disproportionately affects them to the point where it might as well be intentionally targeting the class.

There has, to date, been no one who has explained how this policy is anti-worker. And even more so, how it is anti-union, considering the number of days someone is available to work is unrelated to their ability to join a union.

I, uh...what? It’s like $10 to $15 per person at every Five Guys I’ve ever been to, including fries and a drink. Cheaper if you do a dog rather than a burger, but even with the burger, it’s not that much more than even like McDonald’s (who wants $9 for the Smokey BLT QPC sandwich alone).

News Flash: Company Requires Certain Availability Of Employees

This website is really gross sometimes. Between posting lightly edited press releases, the headline on this article (and the “heavy nagging” bit in the first paragraph), and the underlying current of “feel bad for the multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations” (like that article about how whatever candy company…

Yeah the first thing I immediately thought was “that looks like a pic of Papa John’s cheesesticks.” Looking at Toppers’ website, they definitely do a lot more with it than PJ’s does, but the one pictured here looks identical.

You don’t tell a manager you’re not going to show up a given day. You request it off. If they schedule you anyway, you have a choice to make, but not showing up has repercussions (just as them scheduling you when you requested off has repercussions, such as you possibly quitting or no-showing).

Imagine calling out the manager for asinine behavior without denigrating completely innocent people who like the food they like and fat-shaming them. Your mentality in this regard can’t die out fast enough, either.

Canada has for 40 years had a chain of frozen food-only (ok, 99%) stores called M&M Food Market (used to be M&M Meat Shops). Wikipedia says they were in the US for a few years several years ago as MyMenu in the Midwest.

The walnuts and pure sour cream (as opposed to with sugar or folded into Cool Whip or something) throw me a little bit but I’d definitely try it.

I can understand being weirded out by a recipe that combines like mayo and Jell-o (although mayo works a lot better in sweet contexts than most people would believe) or embeds shrimp in gelatin…

Yes, strawberry pretzel Jell-o (or “salad” as the recipe proclaims)! One of the best things in the world. We’re traveling to my parents’ house next week for several days and, while we’re not having it on Thanksgiving, it is definitely on the list for another meal!

Costco definitely has some unique things that it sells…but Sam’s Club is a decade ahead in technology. Every item they sell is listed on their website with, crucially, club availability. They have actual native mobile apps and not just a shell for web views. Scan and Go lets you scan with your phone as you shop in the…

So now we’re just publishing very lightly edited press releases?

That, combined with the fact 99.9% of visitors to this site are not viewing it with a color-calibrated monitor.

“If there were easy, low-hanging fruit” followed by “they’re constantly balancing customer experience against bottom line”—taking the cheap, easy shots is not about balancing anything. It’s doing the minimum to survive. Reversing the stance of putting the milk in the far corner is easy, low-hanging fruit that they’ve…

1. So intentionally being a d-bag to other people when you can blame a third party is fine. Got it.

Or maybe, just maybe, some people aren’t elitist jerks. Perhaps these same people do realize that Taco Bell and Chipotle are not, in fact, “authentic Mexican places” but enjoy them for what they are.