My manager (not a manager who quit early on) knew this but kept calling me in early anyway. If you call me into work early you are cutting into my sleep. I tend to be a night owl and often don’t go to sleep until 4 a.m. As Berndt put it, “Scheduling was the worst at the beginning of the pandemic because I kept getting called into work. Then the anti-mask crowd started appearing more regularly “making a big scene and having to be kicked out.” Despite being praised by customers for keeping things running, he told me that “management provided only two washable masks for the first two months of the pandemic and only got around to supplying more when customers began complaining and corporate felt it might hurt their bottom line.” Over time the praise died down from all but the regulars. So I reached out to Berndt Erikson, one of the workers responsible for the signs in the window, to hear his experience and why he decided it was time for a General Strike at the Dollar General.īernt started in January 2020 just before the pandemic hit. Or maybe you’re like me and you felt some combination of all of these things. And maybe you tried to picture what you might do instead of the unending daily grind. Maybe you even started thinking about how you might quit. Maybe you wished you were in the position to quit that way too. Maybe you were excited that someone finally pushed back about people being called lazy and wanting handouts. You may have seen these working-class heroes in the news lately when employees at the General Dollar in Eliot, Maine threw in the towel. Image from Andy “Pass the PRO Act” O’Brien Twitter
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