r/Kalispell

Was a budtender here for less than 2 weeks (after all the other budtenders RIGHTFULLY walked out before 420). I was fired for saying I couldn’t work this Sunday (Mothers Day). I was texting my manager saying I wouldn’t be in town and so I couldn’t work, she threatened my job, I tried to stand my ground, no response for 2 hours and then I get a text saying they’re looping in HR and an email saying I’m FIRED. LMAO. I’ve never missed a shift. Went above and beyond to try and get the store back in order since the other employees were fired/quit.

Bakery shut down because everyone quit/was fired up in Kalispell. Production was fired and/or quit over the weekend. Absolutely no new product. It might look like all smiles from the new budtenders but the state is in there every other week. There are countless violations to Montana state cannabis laws and regulations. Employees don’t wear or have badges. Witnessed the state come in on Monday and the manager was freaking out trying to get an employee to leave because they didn’t have their badge (this employee was a manager too) and the state was checking everyone’s badges. Not to mention the countless amounts of product that’s moved out of the store with incorrect metric tags or NO TAGS AT ALL??? One of my first shifts, another employee told me with the last inspection, the state found over 100 violations. Senior employees were telling me to sell mislabeled/unlabled product if I could “find one the same price or the correct name”. For example, entire bags of eighths (100+) were labeled as single prerolls of a completely different strain.

I could go on forever but fuck this store. No wonder everyone quit. My first day gave me bad vibes. The management lies to its employees and there’s absolutely no structure. Watched peoples tills be short hundreds, watched cannabis laws violated, was TOLD to do things which would violate cannabis laws. Bro it’s fucked. Run. God bless the old employees. They made the right choice. I hope they are all happy and finding peace with the situation. 2 weeks did my head in, I couldn’t imagine how they’re feeling with the whiplash that is Flower Dispensary.

PSA: Great Falls store is owned and managed by the SAME PEOPLE. Don’t support this company. They’re all for profit and pay their employees dogshit hourly. Every single product in that store (other than the suckers) costs more than we are paid hourly. Think about that. The store moves thousands in product a day.

Anyways, I hope you all have a wonderful, stupendous day unless your name is Bobby or Raven😚 Yikes. I would be embarrassed lmao

My husband and I are both from Montana (him born and raised, me moving here when I was little) he went into the military for awhile and got a good medical separation deal. He went back to school and got a job in his field up in kalispell. We were excited at first because it pays much better than the other cities do... except now were realizing why. I just want a good sized house to raise a family with some land for gardens and small animals. Why are yalls houses so expensive!? If we find a decent sized, or even just decently held up, house the location is horrendous but if we find decent land the house is literally falling apart but still too expensive to have money left over to fix up. We're expecting our first baby and the stress is quite literally tearing me apart. There have been maybe 3 houses we were really hopeful about and they got bought up literal HOURS after being listed! I check multiple times a day to see if theres anything new, but again, when there is, it's contingent so fast we dont even have a chance to set up a tour with our realtor. We're starting to wish he never accepted that job... kalispell is beautiful but its not worth this.

I'm something of an archivist journalist. As we all know, Montana is under the pressures of immense and rapid change, and indeed there are stories and heritage that will be lost in this transition without any documentation of their dissapearance.

I'm looking to document and then tell stories from across the state, from ranchers being pushed aside for development, to loggers and miners losing work, indigenous elders and community leaders fighting further cultural erasure, fly fishermen watching the rivers they grew up on being crowded and sold, granola types defending agains the ultra-wealthy or development groups destroying nature, people simply living off the grid as an act of defiance, etc. Any story will do.

If interested in learning more, please reach out.

This is so random, but does anybody remember a small convenience store on 93 in the summers/kalispell area, on the east side of the highway? I feel like the building I remember it being in is still there and maintained. Its now painted red, but I think it may have been white back then, and it's small and vaguely train car shaped. I have memories of stopping there when I was a kid and there was often a man in the back watching one of those old tiny cathode ray tube tvs.

My dad would always call it the inconvenience store, but I don't know if that was my dad being weird or if it was actually called that.

I don't know why, but I think of it every time I drive that stretch of highway. I don't know if this is just a bunch of memories jumbled together or if some of it is actually accurate.

Not asking for any reason other than curiosity/to confirm if my childhood memories are accurate.