2 months ago wife recently started working for a funeral home. She is just about complete with her embalming courses and is required to do 50 supervised embalmings. She lined up this practicum early with this funeral home and immediately started giving her shifts.
At first they didn’t want to pay her for her time so I pressured her to start talking about getting paid. They agreed that she would get $18/hour. We figured it was better than nothing and she will get her practicums when it was time in October. They’ve now hired her full time but technically she isn’t getting any progress on her practicum. She also isn’t given a set schedule. She finds out the night before when she will start and never knows when she’ll be done for the day.
Additionallly, this funeral home has several locations in other towns. One of the main ones is 170 km’s away. My wife has been travelling to the local funeral home and going the rest of the way with the general manager in her vehicle so she has been at the mercy of her schedule.
Tonight now the manager can’t make it and asked my wife to drive the 170km’s in our vehicle. I lost my shit!
They just keep taking and the only consideration is the selfish corporate needs! I warned my wife that they will just keep taking. I also told her that we have kids. They have a set schedule and so do I with my government position and union position. We didn’t work this hard to get where we are to blow it all up and subsidize some stupid greedy corporation. I hate that she defended them! I will keep talking. She wants this so bad and needs this practicum but I can’t allow this to go on too much longer.
Anyway, venting over. I hope she can stand up for herself. I’ll keep telling her she is worth more and she needs to stand up, not just for her, but is as a family.