He keeps saying "This is why..."
But in reality the correct phrasing of it would be, "This is HOW". Come on.
My boss is a racist. Now, if you read back through all my journal entries from the first one detailing (did I? I must have) his rise to power in Variety department, you would know by now that he's a piece of work. I mean that in a bad way. When he first showed up, he put pressure on all of us still in the department when Dick left. Joe quit because of him. Oscar would show up after a large load (ordered by Ken Chen, who always orders large loads of freight) and ask Joe, the only one working graveyard that night, why it wasn't done. He'd try to be all tough about it. So that's plenty of undue pressure on Joe, so he said "screw it" and quit. Jessica was fired after Oscar put her (the hardest working person on graveyard, for the record) with a girl he transferred from another store. They didn't get along very well, so instead of working it out, he fired her. In the hospital. After she got hit by a car. Yeah. Sarah quit. For whatever reason, she didn't show up.
So who is left? Me, Ken, and Linda. Now, Linda is an aging woman who has been in our department for a long time. I like her, she's alright in my book. Ken's a Manager in Training (MIT), so there's not much Oscar can do to touch him. Ken works hard, and MIT's get 40 hours no matter what. Linda, on the other hand, should get hours because she is a journeyman(woman). I'm not sure how that all works, but it apparently does. And yet, not. Because since he has started, she has a hell of a time getting her days off situated just right. Before Oscar, she had to work hard to develop a schedule that allowed her to be with her husband (who works alot) and daughter on their days off. Oscar changed that, and so she had to start over. Linda and I are the only two left from the original (Ken doesn't count for various reasons). I suppose we have survived the initial pressure he put on our crew to leave. The thing is, now we're the second-class members of the department. When my hours get cut, as they do every couple of months, Oscar makes a vague promise to get them back by some time or another. He doesn't follow through. Linda has had a hell of a time getting her days off because Oscar tells her that he'll work with it. She comes back to look at the next scedule, and he obviously hasn't done jack shit.
Now how is this racist? Ah yes, the whole point of this entry. The only people Oscar gives out jobs to are Hispanics. I'm pretty sure he's handing out positions to his friends. There was Irma, who never showed up for the drug test (I heard about her, but never met her), Adrian Tudelo (he was alright, but this is to prove a point, so yeah), Ada (still working), one other person whose name escapes me at the moment (although it was definitely hispanic), and the new guy, Max (hispanic). Max showed up a few weeks ago, and by his second week, he was getting 32 hours. I had been getting 40 hours, and then I went down to 20. We are expendable. If there are extra hours, Oscar is only too glad to give it to us, but once his friends get into place, we're not priority anymore. Max later mentioned to me that Oscar asked him if he wanted to work. This tells me that there's probably not any action going on with the applications.
I talked with somone who knows quite a bit about WinCo policy, and he said he might be able to help a little, but right now it's looking bleak. He talked to Oscar for a little bit, and so now Oscar knows I'm watching everything. He doesn't come over to me and bullshit and smile anymore. He just says "hello" and walks on. I work my ass off, by the way. I work damn hard. And yet, I know he's going to try to fire me eventually.
My boss is a racist. Now, if you read back through all my journal entries from the first one detailing (did I? I must have) his rise to power in Variety department, you would know by now that he's a piece of work. I mean that in a bad way. When he first showed up, he put pressure on all of us still in the department when Dick left. Joe quit because of him. Oscar would show up after a large load (ordered by Ken Chen, who always orders large loads of freight) and ask Joe, the only one working graveyard that night, why it wasn't done. He'd try to be all tough about it. So that's plenty of undue pressure on Joe, so he said "screw it" and quit. Jessica was fired after Oscar put her (the hardest working person on graveyard, for the record) with a girl he transferred from another store. They didn't get along very well, so instead of working it out, he fired her. In the hospital. After she got hit by a car. Yeah. Sarah quit. For whatever reason, she didn't show up.
So who is left? Me, Ken, and Linda. Now, Linda is an aging woman who has been in our department for a long time. I like her, she's alright in my book. Ken's a Manager in Training (MIT), so there's not much Oscar can do to touch him. Ken works hard, and MIT's get 40 hours no matter what. Linda, on the other hand, should get hours because she is a journeyman(woman). I'm not sure how that all works, but it apparently does. And yet, not. Because since he has started, she has a hell of a time getting her days off situated just right. Before Oscar, she had to work hard to develop a schedule that allowed her to be with her husband (who works alot) and daughter on their days off. Oscar changed that, and so she had to start over. Linda and I are the only two left from the original (Ken doesn't count for various reasons). I suppose we have survived the initial pressure he put on our crew to leave. The thing is, now we're the second-class members of the department. When my hours get cut, as they do every couple of months, Oscar makes a vague promise to get them back by some time or another. He doesn't follow through. Linda has had a hell of a time getting her days off because Oscar tells her that he'll work with it. She comes back to look at the next scedule, and he obviously hasn't done jack shit.
Now how is this racist? Ah yes, the whole point of this entry. The only people Oscar gives out jobs to are Hispanics. I'm pretty sure he's handing out positions to his friends. There was Irma, who never showed up for the drug test (I heard about her, but never met her), Adrian Tudelo (he was alright, but this is to prove a point, so yeah), Ada (still working), one other person whose name escapes me at the moment (although it was definitely hispanic), and the new guy, Max (hispanic). Max showed up a few weeks ago, and by his second week, he was getting 32 hours. I had been getting 40 hours, and then I went down to 20. We are expendable. If there are extra hours, Oscar is only too glad to give it to us, but once his friends get into place, we're not priority anymore. Max later mentioned to me that Oscar asked him if he wanted to work. This tells me that there's probably not any action going on with the applications.
I talked with somone who knows quite a bit about WinCo policy, and he said he might be able to help a little, but right now it's looking bleak. He talked to Oscar for a little bit, and so now Oscar knows I'm watching everything. He doesn't come over to me and bullshit and smile anymore. He just says "hello" and walks on. I work my ass off, by the way. I work damn hard. And yet, I know he's going to try to fire me eventually.