Jonathan Tristan on Instagram: "Things that were normalized on Wall Street * No one takes a vacation… almost ever. Your first year, managers will deny almost every request you make to take even a week off and generally after your first year, you get 1 full week (5 business days) off during the summer, and a handful of long weekends. There’s also an order to it - where multiple people can’t take the same week off and more senior people pick their vacations first… so you basically get whatever is

I was fired from Target after a coworker who wanted my position told management that I had attended a protest against ICE. I found out later what really happened. This coworker had been trying to move up for months. When that didn’t work, they went to my manager and claimed I had gone to an anti ICE protest and that it made me a “liability” to the store. It wasn’t during work hours. I wasn’t wearing anything related to Target. I didn’t break any laws. But they framed it as something dangerous. M

My first job was so bad that I had to quit mid shift #helpme #retail #retailworker