21-year-old bagel store cashier refuses to shovel snow for demanding boss: 'I'm not going to do that... for $15 an hour'

This bagel shop boss is paying a measly $15 an hour, so asking his employees to shovel snow was going a step too far. 

Shoveling snow is one of those jobs that'll make you appreciate the value of physical labor. (Same goes for sanitation workers — you never appreciate the trash collectors until it's a holiday weekend and no one has removed the piles of trash from your yard.) With snow, of course, an ordinary person can shovel snow… but when it comes to tackling a large area of snow-covered ground, all you can do is hire someone to do it. Most ordinary people aren't going to want to shovel an entire parking lot. It would take hours! Even your strongest worker could spend 9 hours shoveling a parking lot and only get done a small portion. 

This is why a lot of snow removal companies make great money for what they do. They'll salt the area and remove all the snow in a matter of minutes using snowblowers or trucks with shovel attachments. And voila! Within minutes, you can start letting customers into your store again safely and with plenty of space to park. The salt-covered ground ensures that no one will slip and fall on the property either, which could lead to some costly lawsuits. Sure, the owner pays a price, but that is, quite literally, the cost of doing business on a snowy day. 

It's pretty baffling that this bagel shop boss didn't do any of that during one big snowstorm. Maybe he tried to call a snow shoveling service, only to find out that they were booked due to, you know, an already ongoing snowstorm. The real trouble arose when he asked an employee making minimum wage to do the shoveling for him instead!