Thursday, October 16, 2008

women...

Have you ever noticed that women get the shaft? And I don’t just mean in bed. And I also don’t mean in the good way. I mean in my city at least all the women I know that have a good job and are not in the government get paid a lot less then a man who does a lot less then that woman at the same level.

I personally work in a place where my janitor makes more money then me. And I work in the office. One of the guys here is in school getting government funding so he can go to school and still have some money makes half of his regular take home pay and he still makes more then me and he is three years younger. I wouldn’t care if they are younger or older its all on what you can do right. Well I want something to be done. And soon.

I went to school to be a chef when I came home and started towards that I had a chef at a very high end hotel tell me that he shouldn’t have hired me because I am a woman. And that if he was not in a pinch he would never have hired me at all. I moved on from there to a kitchen management (KM) position and I thought I was doing well for myself. I was the only female KM in the city and I thought I was making good money. That was until I found out at the third location I was moved to that I was the lowest paid KM in the city and that is still lower then the new hires they were getting the ones who didn’t know anything about the business but they were men. I finally got totally fed up when my general manager was hiring cooks to work for me at a higher wage then I was making. That crushed my sprit.

Now I am working in an office and there are people here who steal things, people who leave work for hours at a time, and those who just don’t do any work. I show up every day to work unless I am deathly ill I work my ass off and I still get less then a kid who takes at least one day off a week every week and fucks around all day when he is here. I can only talk about the jobs that I have worked at not all jobs but all the women that I know have had the same problems as I have had.

It gets to the point where I have to rely on a man to pay my rent. And I worry about bills because they are about $750 less then rent. And we are still broke every week. I don’t know how to change things but I would like things to change for women sooner rather then later.