r/antiwork • u/IAmLordMeatwad • 1d ago
Psycho Boss 👨🏫 Lawyer made an insensitive joke during contract bargaining.
For context, my Employer normally does Interest-Based Bargaining (IBB) and it's with the whole suite of upper management. I personally have no experience with IBB, but from what I have heard, it's bad and a waste of time. Only works when both parties act in good faith. We opted for traditional bargaining, and it freaked our employer out into hiring two attorneys to represent them in bargaining. They probably make $200/hr, if not more. So now it's 99% lawyers talking with silent head nodding from upper management.
The lawyers have told us plainly that they don't know our contract that well. They need a lot of handholding to understand the basics of our working conditions and contract. For instance, they didn't know what shrink is.
Grocery shrink is unsellable food that gets passed down to staff. At our store, 75% goes to shelters and 25% to staff. It's mostly stale bread and moldy produce. We proposed that we get more packaged shrink (ie. more prepared foods items, higher quality food) because so many of our staff rely on shrink for food since we are paid so poorly.
At the end of bargaining, the lead attorney said "Next meeting is at dinner time, so you guys better bring your shrink!" Like haha you guys are poor and have to rely on rotten food to survive. So awful.
At least we can tell workers about it and feed the rage machine.
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u/ShakespearOnIce 1d ago
Go ahead and bring it. Let it sit in the center of the table for the entire rest of the process. Be sure to offer them a brown banana as a snack any time someone gets up for water.
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u/Mattastic85 1d ago
Let them know you’ll bring all the snacks for the next meeting. Bring the shrink and really cement it in what a ‘benefit’ you’re bargaining for looks like.