Honestly just need to share this somewhere so I don't feel like I'm crazy for being pissed about things here.
I work at a hospital. Nothing amazing I'm a glorified janitor. I clean surgery rooms and work 5 days a week. This place is barely running because surprisingly, no one wants to clean a hospital during a pandemic. They don't even have a skeleton crew for cleaning.
It has been pretty ok for the most part. I earn 15 an hour after a recent pay raise and they expect me to be grateful for the bare minimum. I take 2 15 minute breaks in an 8 hour shift from 5pm-1am. It's draining but manageable. But the Hospital is deciding to change that. They now want us staying an extra half hour every night to take an unpaid lunch and want to cut us down to 1 fifteen minute break. Which I know it's not a lot.
But doing the math that's 5 extra days a year I have to stay here unpaid. I tried talking to them about keeping things like it is. No punching out for lunch and I get to leave at 1 am. They declined it and said I had to adapt or there would be consequences. There's no union. No support or options other than bite down and take it or find a new job. I know people face way worse issues but it just kills me how they choose to ruin a workforce that does it's job all to squeeze an extra 15 minutes out of us.
So I'm doing the bare minimum by finishing just my area and hide on my phone for a few hours every night. Guess we'll see how long it lasts