re: Whole Foods workers going on strike

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hazard pay.

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Go to a war zone if you want this.

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You really want to risk getting exposed to this shite every day for $10 an hour?

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Most of them are young. Getting it would be less painful than getting the flu. So yeah, they have been RISKING it for years.

Bet these youngins would shite if they knew all the diseases that came through their line daily.

Never heard of it. But yeah 17/hour is $3 more an hour than a policeman, deputy or school nurse where I live.

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At the very least, a group of opportunists shouldn't try to exploit a crisis

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Go ahead,fire em.

Not sure where you live but Kroger and Publix are desperate for workers in metro Atlanta and are having a very difficult time find folks.

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I'm almost certain a company based in Austin that started doing business as a vegetarian outlet is not going to fire anyone.

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Not sure what this has to do with anything.

SJW companies can be just as shitty to their employees as any other company.

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SJW companies can be just as shitty to their employees as any other company.

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More likely to take a virtue-signaling route.

If this is indeed a "clandestine" attempt to unionize then expect Whole Foods to take a tougher position.

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That entire workforce can be replaced in a day

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I am a meat cutter. Outside of you doctors and lawyers posting here there is a very good chance it would take you longer to learn my job than it would take me to learn yours.

Sure the cashiers could be replaced in a couple of hours. They could be hired and trained before lunch. Not sure about Whole Foods but at a lot of grocery chains they have stockers on their stock crew that pop out 60 70 cases an hour from the pallet to the shelf for eight consecutive hours which if you've ever done it is not easy to do. And at some stores especially high-volume stores it is a requirement that you have a stock crew capable of doing that every truck night. Before I learned to cut meat I was a grocery manager and I promise you most people even very hard worker when they're first learning to stock even the really good ones are hitting about 30 to 35 cases an hour. Chances are if you had to replace an experienced stock crew you would need twice as many inexperienced ones so you wouldn't be replacing them for the same cost. I still throw freight in the frozen meat department occasionally or if we're shorthanded and I promise you I would double up any of you every hour if you have never done it and don't have experience at it.

You have DSD receiving clerks that have to have a good bit of knowledge about the computer system and the order guns as well as having the knowledge about what products you need and how many. It's not you were going to have a ton of out-of-date product. That applies to produce and Darien Frozen Foods as well. You have (CAS) which is computer-assisted ordering but they always have to be modified which requires knowledge of the ordering system and computer system. Again is stuff that you can't learn in a day. You can't just hire someone off the street and think they're going to be trained by the end of the day and do a serviceable job.

You definitely aren't hiring people off of the street with no experience and having them do an adequate job in the meat department in a day. You have to be able to make every cut on every type of meat as well as being proficient in operating a bandsaw. Just to be able to price the meat after you wrap it and place it on the scale you have to memorize about two hundred three digit codes corresponding to each type of meat. You also have to be able to do it quickly without thinking about it not looking the number up or asking someone because if you do you will never keep up with the volume of work on your plate.

I'm not arguing every job in the store is not easily replaceable but pretending that every job in the store is easily replaceable is asinine.

I guarantee you it will take you as long or longer to learn to do what I do everyday then it would take me to learn what you do. Outside of Doctors and Engineers of course. Plus when shite hits the fan I have a valuable skill that not very many of you have. Kissing a board members arse is not as helpful as being able to process that new kill in a time when there are no Kroger's or Publix.

That is all without even taking into account the interaction with the public in the time of an extremely contagious pandemic.