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Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Treat Their Employees Worse than WALMART!!!!!
#18284899 - 05/18/13 06:30 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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So, my friend took up a job at a local dispensary around here like 6 months, and only recently has informed me of the atrocious practices of the medical marijuana business.
Since I know these businesses run as a "co-op," I had assumed that they would have ethical business practices and that people dealing bud would surely treat their employees fairly. Not quite the case.
First off, they treat their employees worse than Walmart. Every single day of the week, they made her work 12 hour shifts from 11AM to 11PM WITH NO BREAK OR OVERTIME. She worked these shifts, with no break or overtime, every single day from Monday to Sunday with no days off. They claimed they could not hire anybody who wasn't willing to work every day. The only day she ever got work off was her birthday. Then when she goes home to rest, they call her at midnight and hassle her and call her names if there was any money missing from the cash register. They straight up bully her.
Did I mention she is making $10 an hour? And she quit, after they just recently cut down the hourly wage by $2. They actually had the audacity to lower the wage, when everybody there is working shit hours with no breaks, and nobody makes any overtime.
According to her, some Colombian drug dealer types run and operate the dispensary (which is why I will not post the location or the name of the dispensary). Which makes me wonder, if gangs and mafias are profiting legally off weed. Because that would make the pro-legalization argument interesting.
This has made me completely disillusioned to the medical marijuana industry. I feel that consumers of medical-grade bud need to be made aware of this. This is why we need labor unions and workers' rights laws enforcing the ethical treatment of employees.
Now I am curious and would like to know... have you (or anybody that you personally know) worked for a dispensary? If so, what were its conditions like? Did they work you to the ground like a work horse, or was it actually pleasant working there?
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Re: Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Treat Their Employees Worse than WALMART!!!!! [Re: Crystal G]
#18284910 - 05/18/13 06:33 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Just out of curiosity.. could you disclose the general location of the place? Was it in Santa A___ and they recently had to move?
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Re: Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Treat Their Employees Worse than WALMART!!!!! [Re: Crystal G]
#18284914 - 05/18/13 06:33 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Sounds like a single dispensary with a shitty owner  I have had an owner shut down the shop to go out back to spark a bowl covered in hash oil with his employee and myself once.
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Re: Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Treat Their Employees Worse than WALMART!!!!! [Re: Crystal G]
#18284916 - 05/18/13 06:34 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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That's some bullshit, I wouldn't have ever imagined that.
I'm thinking it may not be every dispensary though, but idk.
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Re: Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Treat Their Employees Worse than WALMART!!!!! [Re: Legend] 4
#18284921 - 05/18/13 06:34 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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It's definitely not every single one. I had a friend working for a big one and they were treated quite fairly.
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Re: Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Treat Their Employees Worse than WALMART!!!!! [Re: Shroomism]
#18284950 - 05/18/13 06:41 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Set up a state of the art climate controlled grow warehouse and then got let go right when it was finished they didn't even keep me on to harvest the 27 pounds a week the place eventually started churning out
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Re: Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Treat Their Employees Worse than WALMART!!!!! [Re: Shroomism]
#18284974 - 05/18/13 06:47 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Az0th said: It's definitely not every single one. I had a friend working for a big one and they were treated quite fairly.
What was their position? Apparently my friend was the person that answers the phone calls for delivery and rang the orders in.
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Re: Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Treat Their Employees Worse than WALMART!!!!! [Re: Crystal G] 4
#18284980 - 05/18/13 06:49 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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He was a bud tender / trimmer. I think he said he was making about $15/hour and he got paid for overtime as well, and got free herb all the time.
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Re: Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Treat Their Employees Worse than WALMART!!!!! [Re: Dest] 1
#18284985 - 05/18/13 06:50 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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I don't think you can condemn the whole industry just because of one dispensary, but that does sound pretty bad.
PS Can we get an update on your fucking gross bodybuilders/tranny hookers/ general sexual deviancy thread Crystal?
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Re: Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Treat Their Employees Worse than WALMART!!!!! [Re: Crystal G]
#18284991 - 05/18/13 06:51 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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sounds like crappy people running that dispensary.
Lots of people in OC out of business all of a sudden too.
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Re: Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Treat Their Employees Worse than WALMART!!!!! [Re: nicechrisman]
#18285008 - 05/18/13 06:53 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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I bet they over charge there product too
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Re: Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Treat Their Employees Worse than WALMART!!!!! [Re: Legend] 3
#18285109 - 05/18/13 07:21 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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This is hilarious. Sorry CG but you're way off the mark.
Just because Dispensary A treats its employees like shit, it has no bearing on the entire MM dispensary network as a whole.
I know you're smarter than that.
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Re: Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Treat Their Employees Worse than WALMART!!!!! [Re: Crystal G] 1
#18285113 - 05/18/13 07:21 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Crystal G said:
Now I am curious and would like to know... have you (or anybody that you personally know) worked for a dispensary? If so, what were its conditions like? Did they work you to the ground like a work horse, or was it actually pleasant working there?
I have a few friends that work at MM dispensaries in CO and they love their job.
Note: LOVE THEIR JOB.
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Re: Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Treat Their Employees Worse than WALMART!!!!! [Re: memes] 1
#18285115 - 05/18/13 07:22 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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meams said: This is hilarious. Sorry CG but you're way off the mark.
Just because Dispensary A treats its employees like shit, it has no bearing on the entire MM dispensary network as a whole.
I know you're smarter than that.
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Re: Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Treat Their Employees Worse than WALMART!!!!! [Re: Psy Baba] 1
#18285121 - 05/18/13 07:22 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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DuNeRaVeR said:
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meams said: This is hilarious. Sorry CG but you're way off the mark.
Just because Dispensary A treats its employees like shit, it has no bearing on the entire MM dispensary network as a whole.
I know you're smarter than that.

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Re: Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Treat Their Employees Worse than WALMART!!!!! [Re: memes]
#18285309 - 05/18/13 08:13 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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meams said: This is hilarious. Sorry CG but you're way off the mark.
Just because Dispensary A treats its employees like shit, it has no bearing on the entire MM dispensary network as a whole.
I know you're smarter than that.
Yea I'm sorry, I simply don't know enough about how the medical marijuana industry is run. I don't know if each of the dispensaries are individually owned, or whether a chain of them in a local region are affiliated with and owned by a particular organization. Because I am only assuming, that if the Columbian cartel is involved, they likely operate more than 1 dispensary out there.
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Re: Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Treat Their Employees Worse than WALMART!!!!! [Re: Shroomopotamus]
#18285336 - 05/18/13 08:20 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
Shroomopotamus said:
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DuNeRaVeR said:
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meams said: This is hilarious. Sorry CG but you're way off the mark.
Just because Dispensary A treats its employees like shit, it has no bearing on the entire MM dispensary network as a whole.
I know you're smarter than that.


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Re: Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Treat Their Employees Worse than WALMART!!!!! [Re: Crystal G]
#18285367 - 05/18/13 08:31 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Crystal G said: Because I am only assuming, that if the Columbian cartel is involved, they likely operate more than 1 dispensary out there.
Thats a viable assumption.
However, the difference between the Columbian Cartel operating a legally-owned-and-operated Dispensary and the Columbian Cartel operating a drug ring under the radar is:
THEY'RE SUBJECT TO WORKPLACE LEGISLATION! Their workers have rights, and they have a public avenue for any discontent or illegal actions they're being subjected to. Tell your friend to pursue those avenues as she/he deems necessary.
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