It absolutely is. At my first job one of the owners complained that I was sitting and reading a book during my lunch break. They said the same thing about bad optics, and insisted I couldn’t read during my lunch break. I brought in bigger books after that.
When I was 16 I worked at Walmart. I was a smoker, and took my break in the indoor smoke break room, I mention that because my manager didn’t smoke, and so we rarely saw her. I would eat my lunch while listening to books on tale through headphones/Walkman.
After about 6 months my manager started smoking again, and she made me stop listening to my books on tape and claimed it was unprofessional and the optics were bad.
Optics for fucking who? It’s an indoor break room! No customers are seeing me. I’m on a fucking break. But no. Signs went up, no headphones in the break room. No books in the break room. It was fucking awful.
You guys know this shit isn’t real, right?
It absolutely is. At my first job one of the owners complained that I was sitting and reading a book during my lunch break. They said the same thing about bad optics, and insisted I couldn’t read during my lunch break. I brought in bigger books after that.
When I was 16 I worked at Walmart. I was a smoker, and took my break in the indoor smoke break room, I mention that because my manager didn’t smoke, and so we rarely saw her. I would eat my lunch while listening to books on tale through headphones/Walkman.
After about 6 months my manager started smoking again, and she made me stop listening to my books on tape and claimed it was unprofessional and the optics were bad.
Optics for fucking who? It’s an indoor break room! No customers are seeing me. I’m on a fucking break. But no. Signs went up, no headphones in the break room. No books in the break room. It was fucking awful.
“I don’t know how to read so it looks bad if you do”
Boom box in the break room, got it.