Month: March 2022

Hello! I have a wonderful day job at a non-profit. Now that my semester is ending, I have decided to seek a night job in a restaurant. I have worked in restaurants for many years, off and on. I took a job at a larger scale local franchise doing dishes. The pay was $15 an hour. Here's the catch. When I was training, which is basically one shift. The owner acknowledged that on weekdays, it's a two person job. On Friday and Saturday, it's a three person job. The restaursant is relatively high volume. Anyway. I'm dishing and trying to keep up, but I cannot. It's demoralizing because I want to do a good job and I take pride into the work that I do. Anyway, he sets me up to do this by myself. No help, no nothing and he expects us to be done at 10 pm. Well,…

I am a production manager with 4 direct reports and roughly 70 indirect reports. I have always had a good relationship with my team and have tried to treat people fairly and with respect. I've always tried to go to bat for them when it came to corporate issues and policies and considered myself as a conduit between corporate and workers and vice-versa. Two weeks ago I received a $2500 bonus for my performance last year. The day prior to receiving this I gave my 2 week notice of resignation effective 4/1/2022. Today was my next paycheck and I observed that they deducted my bonus from this check. I decided that I was going to write an email to HR and my Boss. Here is that email. Hello, I noticed that the spot bonus given to me in the amount of $2500 in my pay period ending 3/12/2022 was deducted…