Fuck Levy

I have nothing major tonight so am just gonna crap out a few random gripes and go to bed.

Work has been good for me, I am tired as hell and my feet hurt, but I get up every day and slowly make my life better, which is a nice feeling, I am finding my feet there and actually figuring out what I am doing.

I have noticed that emotionally I have been feeling better than I have in almost a year, coincidentally that is the same amount of time I worked at the Moda Center, now I enjoyed the work there don't get me wrong, setting up, training the staff and setting expectations during the day, and particularly the troubleshooting of issues was very satisfying, I was an expert at something and using my knowledge, but after a certain point they just wanted us to do too much with too little, sometimes with as few as half the staff needed, and most of the ones that were there being temps with little to no training. An event like a Blazer game could be described as controlled chaos, there is no way to really control what twenty thousand people are going to do, but you can prepare for most things, however most of this year was a lot less emphasis on the control, and much more on the chaos, and folks, the responsibility and the stress is not worth ten bucks an hour along with a schedule that cannot be predicted.

But now I go in and can be reasonably confident that my bosses know my job as well as I, well actually better than for now, and the staff we need will be there and willing to work, and I am getting compensated fairly for the effort I put in, this last part is the big deal, if someone tries to tell you that the money isn't important in a job, they are either someone who has never been without it or they are trying to convince you to accept less than you deserve for the job, the best way to make an employee feel valued is to pay that employee a fair wage, you don't have to treat me like a king, hell you don't really even have to like me, all you have to do is make sure I can do my job, then give me money for doing it.

Levy didn't do that, they didn't, or couldn't, give us the staff and support to do our job, and they sure as hell didn't want to pay us for it, and the second part would have largely solved the first!

On Facebook I saw that the person who trained me at Levy is applying for new jobs elsewhere, I hope she gets it, she is competent as all hell and deserves so much better, and the same goes for any other Levy coworkers of mine who might be reading this, especially the stand leads.

All of you have learned how to make gold from straw at Levy, and are more than capable of a leadership position in any food or retail business you care to name, please, for your sake, go and find those jobs, leave the Moda Center, they don't deserve you and the skills you developed there you had to develop out of self preservation, not because they spent any effort to train you, you all owe them nothing and have already given them too much of your blood, sweat, and tears.

Hell if my managers are reading this the same goes for you too, lord knows I have disagreed with you on occasion but I know you aren't the ones who set the pay scales and if no one wants the job you can't make them take it, go get something else, that place will destroy your soul.

Anyway, I am much happier now despite being tired and still getting used to working five days a week, having a good job is not something I have had a lot of experience with and I hope to keep it up as long as possible.

Good night.