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Daily Report: May 19th and Journal: low income jobs and day in the life [1]
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Date: 2023-05-19
The back room at work at a Naples Dollar General
Scroll past the bullet points to get to the diary.
Organizing for DECF
Did:
Talked to Judy, sent her list so she and Tiff can call through the ones that didn’t answer
To do:
Meeting tomorrow
Plan subcommittee meeting for Thursday
Organizing progressives
Did:
Solidify talking points with Cindy
To do:
Invite 1 more friend to potluck
Still need to talk with Mike
Organizing for the Right to Clean Water Ballot Initiative
Did:
To do:
Figure out which volunteers are where; get them hooked up with a regional coordinator in that area.
Call Coastal Conservation Association (a fishing club who’s banquet I attended) and try to get their support for Right to Clean Water Ballot Initiative: step 1) call my fisherman friend and draft a proposal
Have poster laminated
Get with petition perfecting team, set a date to join them
Organize Community Cleanup
Did:
To do:
Get more volunteers
Weekly Eco-themed Evening
Did:
Put out official lineup and Instagram post
To do:
Make individual musician flyers on Canva
Have flyers laminated
Make a general flier for the event
Post general flier at guitar center and around town
Make flier for next week
Get us a banner
Plant plants and bag seeds
Affordable Housing Project
Did:
To do:
Watch the commissioner meeting and go over notes
Environmental Lobbying in Tallahassee
Nothing for this today
Environmental Daily Kos Blogs
Did:
Journal last night in addition to daily report
To do:
Edit Article. Post to Daily Kos
Daily reports published on daily Kos
Done
To do:
Additionally, I’d like to do a weekly update (combination of all my daily updates)
Special event
Daryl's Cancer Benefit
Did:
To do:
help by passing out flyers and calling veterans aid locations and cancer aid locations, see if they will attend the event ($10 at the door goes to Daryl)
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I gave my coworker a ride home today. She lives in a house with 15 people. I’m not at the Dollar General I got hired at. I’m at a DG in Naples that can’t find employees. They had to close the store for a few days. Corporate sent multiple managers to the store to get it restocked. There is no manager right now. There are three people that will stay there beyond this week and next.
This Dollar General pays me 11.50/hr to cashier and restock when I don’t have customers. This is a prime example of how the cost of living is too high for this place to remain in business. Many stores, Whole Foods, Starbucks, bussing tables, retail, these are the jobs in Naples. These are the jobs in any retirement catered society. These are the jobs that many, I have heard first hand, deem “not real jobs” or “not permanent jobs”, “jobs that you do while your working on other long term plans”, or “jobs for teenagers”. Even if that argument were a sound one, where are those workers to live? An hour away so they can pay a higher fuel bill and spend 2 hours of their day losing money?
Follow up questions: If service sector jobs are so unimportant, why do they dominate the job market? If it’s mostly teens working those jobs, why is that not what I see first hand (I’ve worked 18 jobs, most of which were in the service industry)?
If these jobs don’t deserve a livable wage then you concede that some people don’t deserve a livable wage and thus you concede that some people deserve to be exploited….
I know I’m preaching to the choir here.
What a day at work today (Dollar General).
I took photos. I’ll have to keep them coming.
I tried looking up an item number to see if I can find out how much they pay for their inventory and figure out what their profit is.
No results on google.
I wrote this while sitting outside on break looking this up.
“Homeless woman next to me
Rich Naples woman walks by holding a pack of cigarettes
Homeless woman says: mam I could have a cigarette please?
I look back at my phone, trying to find this item number to find out how much dollar general paid for it.
Another woman walks by.
Homeless woman says: Mam I’m trying to raise awareness about a case, it’s a really good case, can I have your email so I can send it to you and you can send it to all your family and friends”
The passerby looks at her confused and says nothing before walking into the Dollar General.
Homeless woman speaks roughly over the phone in another language, starts yelling…
Yelling slows down.
She is screaming and complaining now over the phone.”
I managed to fit in enough phone time to solidify my lineup, flyer, and story post for my Eco Monday event.
Out of all the 18 jobs I’ve had, this is the easiest, most low effort, low maintenance. I’m sure they have typical awful corporate practices, but from an employee's standpoint, it’s easy and does not require me to take verbal abuse, and that’s what I personally was looking for.
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