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The Fuller Project In her last weeks working the freight shift at the local J.C. Penney store, Alexandra Orozco took out her phone and hit record. The 22-year-old shot videos as she and her co-workers slid down a metal shoot (technically meant for empty boxes) in the store room, their heads falling back laughing, and posted them on TikTok. Another, uploaded on 13th October, shows the giant black-and-red “Everything Must go!” posters hanging from ceiling to floor, and an eerily half-empty basement section. “Slowing losing my job,” she wrote in the caption, days before the store in Del...

The Fuller Project In her last weeks working the freight shift at the local J.C. Penney store, Alexandra Orozco took out her phone and hit record. The 22-year-old shot a video of the giant black-and-red ‘Everything Must go!” posters, and posted it on TikTok in October. “Slowing losing my job,” she wrote below, days before the store in Delano, California shut for good, one of 156 J.C. Penneys across the United States to close since June of this year. Since being laid off, she’s applied for a couple of roles — counselling kids, delivering flowers — but has yet to hear back.

Pandemic crushes global supply chains, workers at both ends by Louise Donovan/The Fuller Project, The Associated Press Posted Dec 22, 2020 10:09 am EDT Last Updated Dec 22, 2020 at 10:14 am EDT Alexandra Orozco stands for a portrait outside of the closed J.C. Penney where she was laid off from, in Delano, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. Orozco began working part-time at the department store when she was 18, and in nearly four years rose through the ranks from cashier to freight team associate. (Madeline Tolle/The Fuller Project via AP) In her last weeks working the freight shift at the local...

By Louise Donovan, The Fuller Project In her last weeks working the freight shift at the local J.C. Penney store, Alexandra Orozco took out her phone and hit record. The 22-year-old shot a video of the giant black-and-red ‘Everything Must go!” posters, and posted it on TikTok in October. “Slowly losing my job,” she wrote below, days before the store in Delano, California, shut for good, one of 156 J.C. Penneys across the United States to close since June of this year. Since being laid off, she’s applied for a couple of roles — counselling kids, delivering flowers — but has yet t...

And it's taking down workers at both ends. Dec 22nd, 2020 Louise Donovan, The Fuller Project Alexandra Orozco stands for a portrait outside of the closed J.C. Penney where she was laid off from, in Delano, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. Orozco began working part-time at the department store when she was 18, and in nearly four years rose through the ranks from cashier to freight team associate. Madeline Tolle/The Fuller Project via AP In her last weeks working the freight shift at the local J.C. Penney store, Alexandra Orozco took out her phone and hit record. The 22-year-old shot a video o...