```json
{
    "title": "Overwaitea: Hey! How about a 20 minute shift?",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2008/02/05/overwaitea-hey-how-about-a-20-minute-shift/",
    "datePublished": "2008-02-05",
    "dateModified": "2008-02-05",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "Many, many years ago, I started my depressing voyage through the world of work at an Overwaitea food store in my home town. As a teenager, I expected to work…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
}
```

# Overwaitea: Hey! How about a 20 minute shift?

Many, many years ago, I started my depressing voyage through the world of work at an Overwaitea food store in my home town. As a teenager, I expected to work so weird hours, and accept some level of abuse from the "adults" I worked with.

However, it seems that the organization now expects all their employees to accept this crap [[here](http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/02/04/bc-overwaitea-two-hour-shifts.html)].

> A major B.C. grocery chain wants some of its unionized staff to work shifts of just two hours, a move the union representing 8,500 workers called shocking.
>
> The Overwaitea Food Group, which also runs Save-On-Foods and Urban Fare, made the demand for two-hour shifts as it began negotiating a new contract with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, the union said.

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