What a load of shit. I wont pretend Im anywhere near as qualified as a CEO- but to claim a minimum wage worker does nothing but "Smoke weed and show up" is a GROSS simplification of what we do. I used to work as a recycler at Value Village and EASILY did the jobs of three or four people by myself and one other guy because the corporate cunts in charge deemed that this was all that was needed.

I supplied forty employees in five different departments with supplies / changed their garbages, I loaded thousands of pounds of clothing into a bailer and used a fork-lift to load them onto a semi-trailer, I unloaded trucks full of merchandise, I provided basic maintenance of the building, I provided customer service by loading and carrying furniture for customers and meeting their needs, I shoveled the front of the store by hand, and once or twice a year I had to dig out semitrailers buried in snow, I had to categorize inventory inside a semi trailer when it was -30 out, I had to accept donations and load it onto a cart (weighing on average 900-1000 pounds) I cleaned the store by hand, shelved books, put together displays, sorted clothing meeting daily quotas of 10,000 pounds OR ELSE.

Yes... You read that right TWO FUCKING PEOPLE (mostly me the other guy just handled the easy stuff and was extremely slow) had to do all that for fucking minimum wage. On top of it all the fucking corporate cunts and management took every fucking opportunity to shit on our productivity if it took even a SLIGHT dip and would pat themselves on the back when they occasionally bought us pizza from the cheapest fucking place in town. Oh did I mention the MANY health and safety violations? Like working with an extremely loud trash compactor without goggles or ear muffs, like working on a dark semi trailer surrounded by broken glass and being encouraged to walk on it to meet a deadline? How about being told to climb twenty-some feet in the air without a harness to throw down boxes. We also had to follow insane "safety" rules that made no sense?

EDIT: Oh and when the crippling depression set in a year after starting did I receive mercy? Oh sure- I was given lip service but thats fucking it. They bitched me out for calling in a few days a month because I couldnt handle the daily failure of not being able to meet nearly impossible goals- I was threatened by some dumb fucking cunt who just stood around and watched everybody else work and would try her little experiments to make use more productive. Fuck you, and fuck Value village.