Animator|Illustrator|Dragon Enthusiast

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

Yea, I keep thinking about this all the time

Can just imagine all the girlies on tiktok going "I know this is a bit controversial but I honestly love using limestone as a gastrolith. Not only can you readily forage it but they are just so pretty when smoothed out after regurgitating them"

“The Dungeon”

Olivier Schrauwen

A older white woman that lives in the building called the cops on us saying that we were squatting in the apartment. They came and asked to see a lease I don't have one because we aren't staying in this apartment we are just placed here while our apartment gets renovated. I explained that to the cops and also showed them messages between me and the super and landlord and showed them the keys . But they said that's not proof we need to actually show the apartment number and my name signed smh. I called the super and the landlord office but no answer and now they told us that we have to leave til we have proof that we have permission to be here. I called my old neighbor in the Bronx and she said we could come spend the night at her house. We need a cab to get there .

$45 cab to the Bronx cause the cops told us to leave the apartment 😒

Cash app: Daniellegrant64

PayPal: Victoriagrant704

Please can someone plz help us get uptown. My kids are hungry and our whole grocery order is sitting up there in my old neighbors house plz . We're hungry as hell!!??! Please we have food we just need to get to the food

Thank you 🙏🏿 we are on the way to the Bronx now

Update 4:00pm:

I've spoken to the landlord he apologized for what happened. And told me our apartment is clear for us to go back to. We have a lot of bags of groceries and all of our stuff from the apartment we were staying in .we are going from the Bronx to Brooklyn we just need a ride to get there cause my old neighbors husband isnt able to take us

$55 traffic is kinda a mess for our route

Hooooome please the kids are excited, I'm excited. I just wanna be back in our safe space . The feeling of being back home is what I desire so bad please yall help my family go home please. My old neighbor has to leave so I gotta take all these groceries and bags outside . I don't want any of the food to get spoiled sitting outside in the sun please. I went through so much to get this food I don't want it to go to waste please

We gotta leave this lady house with all these groceries she has to go out I don't want any of it to spoil waiting for help so could reblog . I don't want any of this food to go to waste . Our apartment is ready we just wanna go back home

We have milk, yogurt, cheese and frozen items that can't sit out for a long time . So please anyone help a sista out man . I don't wanna throw away anything we need this food

We've been out here for Almost an hour it's hot and the sun is baking our groceries please yall I don't wanna throw money in the garbage 🗑️😭!!!!!! Please I went through so much to get this food I don't wanna throw it away it's bad enough that it's gonna take us at least 45 minutes to get home . Yall please I don't like being wasteful and I begged for these groceries please 🥺

$20/$55 we just need the last $35 please I'm scaring rats away from our bags over here we gotta go 🥹

The rats ain't caring no more please yall we wanna get away from this rat trap goddamn they got too many rats in their garbage

$60/$55

We got the money getting the cab now 💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿

I just had more thingy before I sleep sorry yall just need help for my phone bill just need to pay. Just 30 bucks before my phone turns off at midnight. I gotta call my lawyer tomorrow

$30

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