Joey Quits

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Video by Jori Ketten, featuring the What Cheer? Brigade
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I want to give a little context for the many of you who don't know me:


I worked in this hotel for 3.5 years. I worked while going to school full time to pay my tuition and living expenses. This was not a job I had for two weeks before quitting in a hissy-fit.

The working conditions in the hotel are horrendous. In the kitchen, workers are regularly forced to work 10, 11, 14, 16 hour shifts that begin at 5:30AM and last well into the night. Housekeepers are reprimanded if they fail to clean 16 rooms or more in a 9 hour shift. Anyone who speaks up—especially anyone who is openly pro-union—is disciplined or fired. Managers, like Jared, scream down employees daily.

I worked extremely hard to change the conditions in the hotel. My co-workers and I regularly organized ourselves to push back against management and demand respect. I was also one of many workers who led the fight to organize a formal union at the hotel. For legal reasons I must mention that this specific action was an individual decision and had nothing to do with the union.

The hotel has yet to recognize our union, and they continue a vicious union-busting campaign. They punish and fire pro-union workers, spread lies in captive-audience meetings, and generally attempt to scare the workers out of joining the union. Still, through just being organized and threatening to form a union, we've won countless victories, including raises, new uniforms, lower housekeeper room quotas, etc.

This video is a hilarious byproduct of a long and ongoing struggle in the Renaissance Providence and hotels throughout the country.

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[reincarnage256]

quit a job like a boss

[TheOneAndOnlyKing88]

I'm going to quit my job next Monday!!! \o/ \o/ \o/

[Calizactive187]

I just quit my job. I was told to go home early so I took my register out and threw it at the customer service desk. FUCK KMART!

[ComedyNurd]

@eggflipper777 It's spam, that's my problem.

[eggflipper777]

@ComedyNurd What does how you spell have anything to do with how much you can make? Nothing, if you want to miss out because you think it's false that's you problem.

[ComedyNurd]

@eggflipper777 If you can't even spell "definitely" correctly, why should anyone care about your (likely false) "internet job"? Education and literacy are keys to success.

[Drifnar]

i cant stop to watch this agan and again OLE TUS HUEVOS!

[plastikonoband]

Joey, Great interview on NPR this afternoon.

[CaliforniaJazzy]

For those keeping score, it's about 1 for the average Joe,  zero for "da man"!

[juwannaman4]

@DowntownBoysMusic

way to go dude! too many big businesses are nothing short of raping the american people, from employment to pricing. and we need to fight back.

[mgray2877]

Thank you.

[DarkGodCthulhu]

This department has worked 0 days without a lost time accident.

Heh. Heh. Heh.