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“You don’t work here anymore.”

Alright, so I work at a pizza place, right? Normal shit for a kid in college to do, but this is probably the most fucked pizza place you can imagine. We are forbidden from taking breaks (“we don't have enough people for you to sit down for 10 minutes”), the owners force employees without daycare to still come in with their children (who run around the kitchen), and they paid two people $1.50 under minimum wage for almost a year because the owners apparently just forgot to increase their pay. They recently sold one of their stores, I love the new owners, they're fixing basically every issue I had with the place. I keep working for both sets of owners because they need help and I need cash. Then boom, new employee handbook for the original owner's store (We'll call them J and A.) So I start reading, right, first…


Alright, so I work at a pizza place, right? Normal shit for a kid in college to do, but this is probably the most fucked pizza place you can imagine. We are forbidden from taking breaks (“we don't have enough people for you to sit down for 10 minutes”), the owners force employees without daycare to still come in with their children (who run around the kitchen), and they paid two people $1.50 under minimum wage for almost a year because the owners apparently just forgot to increase their pay.

They recently sold one of their stores, I love the new owners, they're fixing basically every issue I had with the place. I keep working for both sets of owners because they need help and I need cash. Then boom, new employee handbook for the original owner's store (We'll call them J and A.) So I start reading, right, first thing my eyes go to is the first clause of the pay structure agreement: “You are not to discuss wages with your coworkers.” Now, I know my rights, and I point out to A that this isn't legal, and that they should probably remove it so they don't get sued. I am then screamed at for about 20 minutes about how “we've been doing this for 37 years we know what's legal,” and the owners leave. I get a text from J later that day apologizing for the outburst. I come in for my next shift at J & A's store and A's there, she doesn't say a word to me for the first three hours. I bring up a scheduling issue and she just looks up at me and goes “after Sunday you don't work here.”

I already called a labor lawyer, but I've known these people for literally my entire life and I'd feel awful pursuing anything. I don't really know what to do.

TLDR; Got fired for bringing up them breaking federal law.

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