See people sale of discount vouchers in the street or frequenting the characteristic kiosks is a very common scene. We see them everywhere. However, this familiarity contrasts with the general lack of knowledge about what lies behind this daily work. … To begin with, to sell ONCE coupons it is necessary to meet a series of conditions, including having a recognized disability, passing a selection and training process and acquiring commercial and customer service skills. Nevertheless, The daily lives of these workers cover much more.
It is precisely this reality that he speaks about Antonio García, former voucher holderwho shares his personal experience selling coupons on the TikTok podcast “The Barefoot Man”. Through his testimony, he offers an attentive and little-known look at what it means to make a living from this profession. “Every time I sold coupons, I was unhappy. I wasn’t comfortable. But first, at least, if you ran out of paper, which I sold every day, you were done. Actually, In the afternoon, I already had free time to devote myself to my music, but no longer“He said at first.
This is Antonio García’s experience as a voucher holder at ONCE
And the statements of this former voucher holder focused on the evolution of work until it became an eight-hour day, with schedules that did not allow work and leisure to be reconciled. “Today you continue with the machine. If you run out of paper, you continue with the machine. And today, you have to stay eight hours to fuck, even if no one walks by in the street. And when I found myself in Arrecife, in the morning, I was doing well and I was selling well, but those afternoons when I said ‘my life is going away here, in a corner’. “It’s my life!” he said lamenting.
In line with the above, Antonio also commented that to those at ONCE: “I explained to them why they did not give me a continuous shift, until three thirty or four, because it was a split shift. I was there in the morning, I took a nap then at five in the afternoon until eight o’clock. Those afternoons there… The street was “The Walking Dead”, no one passed by. And here I am saying that I can’t play the piano, nor can I practice notation. That is to say, I don’t have what makes me happiest in life.”
Finally, highlighting this split day, this former voucher holder recounted what a normal day was like: “I had two free hours a day. He came home in the afternoon, ate and slept. My only motivation was to buy cans of beer and put on my headphones to listen to music. My partner was with me, so as not to disturb anyone. At ten thirty I was going to sleep because tomorrow at six in the morning I have to get up. I know there are a lot of people who are like that because they have no other choice, that if I had nothing else, I would still settle for this, but I was bitter“, he concluded.
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