This is at a job where nearly everyone is coded as “temporary part time” no matter how long they've worked here. Meaning you can't go over 29 hours a week and they can let you go at anytime because your employment is always “temporary”. Also, this Wendy's is a 20 minute drive into an area most of our employees don't even live in.
I personally want to see them drop the age of retirement to 50 and make the leaders of the western hemisphere sweat bullets at the thought of dropping it to that age.
I was reading an article on balancing protest rights with the rule of law and came across this: “At the most basic level, the rule of law is meant to provide citizens with a stable social and political environment in which to carry out their lives. It ensures no one — individuals or governments — may exercise authority over anyone else at their whim.” I instantly was struck by the omission of workplaces/corporations. With a wink wink they are somehow indulged in this exercise of authority at their whim, so that capitalism may proceed apace. I mean there are laws. But at a practical level, I think most of us know our bosses hold an almost dictatorial power over us and we are often at the mercy of their magnanimity.
Work groupchat got a text this morning from our manager that the district manager has declared no sitting AT ALL behind the register and anyone he finds sitting is fired on the spot. My manager doesn’t care at all but he also doesn’t want to lose any team members so he’s made us put away the one chair we kept behind the register. We all keep and follow a rule of no sitting while customers are in the store which makes complete sense to me. But no sitting at all? During a shift where basically my only task is to help customers and I get maybe 5 customers per shift. So I am just putting unnecessary strain on my feet and legs for no reason. I know this is a common issue in workplaces so I am curious to see other people’s thoughts or if you’ve ever been able to…
I (25/m) have been working at an emissions testing place since September early on the manager was fired for assaulting me. I found out through the new manager today that the old manager has been coming by taking pictures and sending them to the owners and keeping track of what we do and texting the owner. The owner is ignoring it claiming he's not gonna do anything violent where as I don't feel safe at work entirely now. I think tommorow I'm gonna try and get a restraining order on my previous manager.
It’s so frustrating when people say “find a company you want to be with forever”. That is a thing of the past and know what, fuck that. I will never let my emotional or mental health decline because I “should be with a company and be dedicated to them no matter what”. People need to stop being guilt tripped into thinking they must stay at a company their whole life. I say, if you aren’t benefitting from them, screw it. It’s time to start asking what the employer can do for us before committing.