People who don't know better (first job?), people with zero experience and people that ^think are willing to take whatever they get.

And that kids is how I began to work for what works out to under minimum wage (so you're telling me I need to work over 35 hours/week for my union fees to not push my paycheque under minimum wage? Some shit union you are) for three rather miserable months in a grocery store where the clientelle doesn't understand the concept of minimum wage and expects us to know what this $20 jar of I-don't-even-know-what-this-pompous-shit-is tastes like. My coworker actually got berated for casually remarking that they "don't get paid enough to shop here".

And of course, you work your ass off, you're nice to the customers, you're an outstanding employee, but you try to call in sick one day and the store manager who has absolutely no idea who you are tells you how "I have a store to run" and talks to you in a tone that automatically assumes you're some stoner dirtbag that always skips out on work, even though you've called as early as possible as politely as possible and you know damn well that he has a list of 20 workers he can call, because we only get like 4 hours a week for the first month anyways. Oh, and his "running a store"? Yeah, it's shit. We're constantly overstocked on shit that doesn't sell and understocked on the most common shit (Oh I remember the day we ran out of eggs. I think our customers just couldn't process that idea - "but eggs just naturally grow in grocery store refrigerators, right?"). We're understaffed half the time and overstaffed the other half (and no that doesn't even out when the manager expects 5 pallets of freight out by the end of the night and a complete store re-facing). No one at that company understands the concept of employee morale, turnover is ludicrous, I'm hearing talks of strike (what? You mean our union is actually capable of doing some work for once?).

TL;DR: Don't work for a company that owns a few British Columbia grocery chains that may or may not be owned by Vancouver's richest person

Mmmm... therapeutic rant. So glad to be quitting this week.