To be fair this job has been incredibly easy and enjoyable to work during my daytime hours on campus. It’s a great place to work. But my paycheck was $170 today. Last semester it rarely if ever dipped below $500. This is not sustainable nor is it a “living wage”!

I don’t think this model is ideal when your restaurant doesn’t have the budget or foot traffic to justify being open evening and weekend hours. And because the rest of FOH staff has never worked hospitality before, they don’t understand how much money is being left on the table

Functionally what is the point of advertising a “living wage” if you do not give them living wage hours. I could be working at an actual tipped restaurant that’s open evenings and weekends, I’d be paid far better even with the $1.80 cut down to minimum wage

www.instagram.com/reel/DEC7Zc9... she found this IG post and figured out the measurements from their posts, my big brain queen! she is not fond of paying for patterns 🩷

they are insanely warm! fisherman’s wool is oiled (i think) so all of these items are water resistant. the gloves can be unfurled to cover my hands more, and the hood can be worn a bunch of ways. the perfect gear for a protest/action in the cold lol

i am good before u ask 🙏🏽 but the whole situation was straight out of a sitcom, auld lang syne and all that.

@bananaoftruth.bsky.social and i were talking about ontario zoos and when explaining this tidbit of my childhood to them it felt like explaining a fever dream. a corn pop for me, a corn pop for thee black bears