[stephengillie]

> 3 weeks of PTO

Having been in the UFCW Local 367, it takes 3 years to get 3 weeks PTO - it's 1 week the first year.

And you get "sick days", but you had to call in sick for 2 days (and lose that pay) and have a doctor's note, to start getting sick pay.

If you do call in sick, you have to explain to the manager that they'll be short a person all day, and customers will find the store that much busier and harder to shop in. Stores don't have a "b-roster" to call in when someone is sick.

Journeyman checker wages have been frozen at 18.50/hour for a decade. And it takes 4 years to work the hours to become journeyman, which increases in every subsequent union contract.

[zero_intp]

Thank you for the realism without any snark.