>"Your salary will now be automatically charged $5.50 per day of every month for lunch regardless of whether you choose to eat on campus or not. Please inform your supervisor each month if you would prefer to opt out of our lunch program."
So I have to manually go to my supervisor every month and tell him I don't want to eat lunch with my coworkers, and if I forget some month I lose $120? How the fuck is this legal?
I need to add this. Last year I was reprimanded for "Not eating lunch with my coworkers enough and generally being anti-social." I was told that I needed to start being more social with my coworkers and that "people are starting to talk" and "it's likely to reflect on your review." These are my supervisor's exact words.
What the fuck is going on?
Eat lunch with your colleagues you fucking autist. If it makes you feel better consider it one of your core (paid) responsibilities.
The food is fucking shit. Also why the hell do I have to pay $120 a month to eat with them? My wife literally packs me a sandwich from home every single morning and buys the $1.00 loaf of bread to last like 2 weeks and save us money. My salary is only $3000 a month.
This just feels like a scam.
Working for a living is a scam. It’s one of your core duties. Tell yourself that and sack it up. Take the opportunity to “get to know” your coworkers, which is to say to dissect and analyze their psychology for weaknesses that can be exploited in the future.
I'm working in a school, not in the USA, by the way. I've discovered that all my coworkers are super-liberals and say shit like "how can anyone who's educated be a conservative these days?" I studied and went to a school for a completely different job but ended up here somehow. Anyway I see what you're saying, that I should think of it as a core duty like the others specified in my contract, and leave it at that. Thanks.
Take more than $5.50 worth of food per day. Save leftovers.
It sucks but it’s the way it be.
Then they'll just run out of food and start charging people even more to meet demand
Can't wait to see my coworkers' faces when I show up with 2 garbage bags and fill them all with spaghetti to hold for the last 3 hours of the day and then carry for 90 minutes on the train back to my house. That'll teach them to overcharge me.