It’s ironic.
When I worked in fast food for minimum wage, they would yell at us and lecture us about “stealing” fries and burgers (while we had to throw out TONS of food every day) as though the giant billion-dollar corporations of McDonald’s and Sonic couldn’t afford to give their employees something to eat (while not even paying us a living wage).
Now I work at an upscale restaurant (it’s fancy, like celebrities eat there fairly often) and not only do I make WAY better money but they give us 2 free meals a day (eaten on the clock) and they’re GOOD. Today I got baked cod, spring rolls, rice pilaf, stir fry, and mashed potatoes and eggplant. Oh, and free espresso and juice. From this restaurant owned by a local man who is in no way a billionaire.
Obviously money is not the issue, valuing your employees as people is.
This needs all of the reblogs. All of them.
I worked in a little grandmom&pop Thai restaurant for a while. Even when the restaurant wasn’t bringing in great money, my boss (the grandpop), who was the chef, would make me a hot dinner every single night. If we were busy he would put it in a takeout box for me to take home. The first night I worked there, I wasn’t expecting it and he handed me a plate of chicken curry. I was embarrassed and said, “oh, I’m a vegetarian, you don’t have to make me dinner!” And then he went and made me vegetable curry.
“MONEY IS NOT THE ISSUE
VALUING YOUR EMPLOYEES AS PEOPLE IS.”