Amanda
Even though I have a 'naive' appearance, I have always stuck up for myself and what I believe in. It used to bother me that people tend to assume I'm a harmless, passive pixie who'll take shit and bake you cookies the next morning, but I've come to see this assumption as a secret weapon. When I was 16, one of my first jobs was at a bikini store of all places. The other girls who worked there were older, yet I felt about 85 by comparison. One of them had the vocal quality of Anna Nicole Smith on horse tranquilizers and spoke in up speak? you know where everything ends in a question? even when its not? on the phone? for three hours during her shift? Well in the short period of time I worked there, I discovered that my boss never paid me for the hours I was in "training". In fact, NONE of the salespeople had ever received payment for their training. Despite the fact that in retail- as in most industries- employers legally must pay you for these hours. The company had quite the scam going. After my training was completed, they stopped giving me shifts- saying "business is slow right now". But they kept accepting resumes. Kept interviewing more potential employees. (All of them young women- because naturally we're supposed to be borderline retarded right?) They couldn't give me hours and yet they were hiring more women. And "training" them, chalking up hundreds of hours of free labour in the process. I quit and without uttering a word to the company, I quickly and quietly took my case to the Labour Board. Not only did I receive all of my back pay, but the company's practices were investigated. A few months later- the store closed down. I'm not saying I'm not capable of being loud when necessary, but sometimes in order to be an effective Bitch you need to DO shit rather than TALK shit.
One more note on my non-threatening appearance, just because I'm skinny doesn't mean that I live on a diet of air and cocaine or sprint for the bathroom after every meal. Somewhere along the journey of political correctness it's become okay to bash anyone who's thin as a raging anorexic. I fucking love food and hate vomiting. Want to know why I'm skinny? Because my parents are. I read a book once that talked about this revolutionary concept called 'gen-et-ics'. Groundbreaking stuff.
Country: Canada
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