Thesis of a recent New York Times first-person story about the Park Slope Food Coop: It’s really, really difficult to work at a co-op for 2.75 hours every four weeks.
Actual point proven by the New York Times’ first-person story about the Park Slope Food Coop: You kind of get what you pay for when you ask an MFA in poetry to perform manual labor.
Of course, Park Slope Food Coop horror stories are hardly unknown to us here at CHOW.
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Gee, I wonder how many shifts she could have made up in the time it took her to write that self-serving article. There’s a big difference between not having the time and not having any time left after you do all the other things you want to do. That said, the make-up policy is draconian and the fact that people who miss a shift have to compensate by working twice as many probably contributes to the members’ feelings that there isn’t enough work to go around.
Damn I miss the Co-op.