I work as a mechanic at a Japanese-owned arcade chain. We've been severely understaffed for months, so my general manager expects us mechanics to help out other departments when we have downtime from our own work. If it were an easier job, I'd say fine, whatever. The only issue is that our job description is literally 3 times longer than every other position.
We have to move hundred pound arcade machines, repair electrical damage to the machines, repair bowling pinsetters, repair pitching machines and do paperwork tracking every action we do to these machines. The promise made to us before the place opened was that we would be on call when there's an issue, now we're expected to just walk the floor constantly.
We were also told that we would be getting more pay during shifts after 6pm, our normal pay is 15/hr, after 6pm we were supposed to be paid 16/hr. We did not receive this, after several calls to our district manager, he said “it would kick in during the summer,” we opened at the beginning of the summer and summer is almost over.
Our general manager said he'd try to keep the family bathroom for employees only, and that we'd have our own keys for it. Instead, a customer used the downstairs family bathroom once, and now both of them are locked. Whenever we ask him about it he says “there's a perfectly good one right there,” pointing at the normal bathrooms.
As it stands now, this is yet another understaffed and overworked situation.