So our district manager came in for a meeting with us on Friday

[TwixVoy]

So on friday all of us in store management were told our district manager was going to come in to have a meeting with us.

It was about 45 minutes long and was one of the most pathetic things I have ever seen.

So this guy sits down with us. (he makes well in to the six figures, most of us in this room make somewhere between $25K-40K depending on how high we are in the management chain)

Seems the company sent him out to the stores to deliver a "warning" to store management about the EFCA in congress. (Employee Free Choice Act) Warned us to be "extra nice" to employees because he can guarantee us some of our employees are "this close" to forming a union if they are pissed off enough. Didn't seem to be aware of the fact that paying everyone at the bottom $7.50/hr and maybe working 20 hours a week might be contributing to that anger. The fool who makes over six figures actually was under the impression everyone in the room agreed with him.

What I found most interesting though was the panicked deer in the headlight look on his face the entire time. The way he kept saying "I am warning you guys" almost like some dire event was going to happen. It made me think the powers that be are deathly afraid if the economy gets worse they are actually going to see the common low wage worker stand up to them for once. He kept telling us that a lot of our employees were going to have trouble making it at all within the next 1-2 years. (I can see that just in the massive increase in the number of employees at my store who have been caught taking money from their register the past few months)

Hmmmm.... what generally happens historically in a country when the lower classes can't eat/have shelter anymore? And what generally happens to those in the upper classes who spent all their time screwing over the lower classes? I can see why they are getting worried.

Little was he aware half of us in that room were of the opinion people DO need to stand up for themselves when facing these mega corporations. These people who actually DO make enough to live comfortably are going to be in for a major surprise should the day come when most of the lower classes can't even make it at all anymore.....

I can tell you working with people all day trying to make it on $7.50/hour and 20 hours a week people ARE getting angry. I think a lot of people in the upper classes don't realize this because they have nothing to personally do with the lower classes. Should the economy continue to get worse the next 1-2 years I wouldn't be surprised if we see people actually start to stand up and do something.