Tuesday, October 26 - Started school. A long way to go. Marie wants to go to union meeting tomorrow but what's the use. They give you the same snow job.
Wednesday, October 27 - Went to school today. Got along much better. Wish I could go every day.
Mom isn't enjoying working at Ball's, but money is money.
"Every store has a Mickey!" You can use this phrase in nearly any endeavor, because you can always find someone that makes your life interesting in one way or another. Mom's foil was Mickey. Mickey was nice, if melodramatic, and as we would characterize someone like her in today's terms, "high maintenance."
Mom has no interest in going to the Union meeting because she knows the deck is stacked against the rank and file. I went to one Retail Clerks Union meeting in 1970. It was a joke. While the clerks maintained an impossibly high wage for employees, most of what you heard was a canned response to management, heels dug in, and waiting for the money to materialize.
The Retail Clerks and the Amalgamated Meatcutters eventually priced themselves and Kroger out of Kansas City. Mom went to work as a cashier trainer, and I helped her open ten store in the area before the bottom dropped out. When I left Kansas City in late 1972 to pursue fame and fortune as an apprentice carpenter in Colorado, I was making almost seven bucks an hour. In today's dollars, that's about 42 bucks an hour!!
Mom is getting the hang of the keypunch training.
Mom is getting the hang of the keypunch training.
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