“My hours went from 30 to 20 a week,” said one Whole Foods employee in Illinois.
Workers interviewed for this story were reluctant to speak on the record for fear of retaliation.
The worker provided schedules from 1 November to the end of January 2019, showing hours for workers in their department significantly decreased as the department’s percentage of the entire store labor budget stayed relatively the same.
“We just have to work faster to meet the same goals in less time,” the worker said.
An internal email shared by the employee from their department manager cited the across-the-board shift cuts as “the direct result of guidance from our regional team”.
In Maryland, another Whole Foods worker said their regional management is forcing stores to cut full-time employee schedules by four hours, to 36 hours a week. “This hours cut makes that raise pointless as people are losing more than they gained and we rely on working full shifts,” the worker said.
ht/ fdr in hell
Maybe some smart ones will get together and volunteer to go back to $13/hour?
Well who could have possibly seen this coming?
It’s become known as taking a Bezos.
No surprise at all,
No matter how often these idiot are told what the result will be, they never admit that that is what happened or take the blame for doing it.
Their response if they are called out on it usually boils down to some form of either “it doesn’t matter” or “Trump and his racism is responsible” and they can be quite creative at getting to that point.
Learn to code.
Won’t be long now that $15/hr “living wage” will include a guarantee for 40 hours per week, while the worker gets to choose how many of those hours she/he/it would like to work, while being paid for all 40 hours no matter how much is worked. As part of the “un/willing” bit.
They fit right in on the intelligence scale next to teachers who have been campaigning for decades to implement this sort of crap: https://nypost.com/2019/03/05/my-students-know-theyre-in-charge-and-theres-nothing-i-can-do/?fbclid=IwAR0tcMXc1OsHmVD8W1vSwmY4w3AWybxH2pwyAokwPwzAVy_eav9gqun0dM4
Looking on the bright side, major increases in minimum wage are spurring on the development of robotics.
Invest in leading edge robotics companies, they are going to see increasing demand and profits for their products.
It’s not about the left ‘learning’ anything. It’s simply about their gaining power by exploiting our education systems and the resulting useful idiots coming out of it.
Oh they learn alright, you’re assuming the reason for demanding the 15 per hr minimum wage is for altruistic purposes.
The Chantilly Cake from Whole Foods is the best cake ever.
The Left will find a way to screw that up, too.
mmmmm…cake!
“Oh Magoo, you’ve done it again!.”
Should be before and after pictures of the “hey we’re getting $15 an hour” to “hey I’m unemployed”. Would be comedy gold. I see this as a win for conservatives because we tried to warn them.
Democraps and math – ALWAYS a bad combination! 😳
They can always learn to be newspaper reporters.
Oh, wait, maybe they should learn to code.
but, but … my Econ Professor said …
Learn to code,,,
Yea, AI (Anal Intelligence) that’s the ticket,
Regards,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ucJN8cRDqM
Working is bad for the environment, and responsibility contributes to climate change.
I’m going to buy me a “Wall-E” and send him to work on my behalf.
Did not the workers who received the wage increase march to force it on their employer?
Old Fart – Yup! All instigated and coordinated by the unions.
The stupidity, of SOME Americans, is overwhelming.
“My hours went from 30 to 20 a week”
Why are you glossing over that whole $15 an hour victory????
Requiring politicians to have a five year minimum of owning and operating a profitable business, would lead to better leadership.
“Well, since they’re cutting the hours, the ONLY thing to do is raise the minimum wage to $20/hr!”
See how that works?
“Every time I hit my thumb with a hammer, it hurts! Guess I should hold the nail between by fingers …”
izlamo delenda est …
Hmm, hours cut down to part-time, JUST LIKE they did when oblowmecare mandated coverage for full-time employees.
You are absolutely right; they never learn, and evidently never will.
So when’s the shooting start?
The up-side is that white folks will be able to go through the drive through and not have to worry that Mr. Roboto might spit in your burger
Rationally project the result of any program, any action taken by government. Be certain that the divisors and implementers of the program have done that and are completely aware of the expectable result. The conclusion: The results they get were the results they intended. The Progressives increase their control and power over people by making them dependent on the government, i.e. unemployed. The mandated minimum wage, which denies the worker the ability to negotiate his pay, increases the number of unemployed upon which the Progressives depend – And removes the bottom rung of the ladder for those with no work history or experience who could start at a lower wage and gain the experience to move up the wage scale. That creates the persistent Progressive underclass of dependents. Don’t underestimate the Democrats: There is a system in their apparent stupidity. An increased move to automation is their ally.
They should be thankful as now they have more free time to ‘pursue their artistic talents’
The LEFTIST know full well what the likely consequences will be, but it makes a GREAT VOTE getter, so they continue their canard.
Truth is that when government sets prices and or wages, it generally leads to a failed economic model … usually hurting those as the bottom, making life more difficult for them while the Leftist legislator has a guaranteed salary, health care and whatever goodies they can glom along the way. There is no better example of this right now than Bernie Sanders who has become a millionaire while promoting these false economic solutions.
Hey, Barry said 30 hours per week is full time, so why complain?
“Workers interviewed for this story were reluctant to speak on the record for fear of retaliation.”
Ahhhh…The NEW America…Leftist Utopia.
Think Insley will make a good president? He was all for the $15 minimum wage for Seattle/Tacoma and look at how many business went under because they could not afford to stay in business. So instead of getting that wage increase they got terminated. Not very smart for these intellectual progressives.