I am an adult. I am aware of the laws in my state. If I work a continuous 7 1/2 hours, an unpaid minimum 20 minute unpaid lunch break must be provided to me within the first 5 hours of my shift. I started a new job in hospitality with no background in it, and have only had issues with them for every shift so far. My trainer and direct manager are on a power trip and I guess pointing out (to my trainer.. not manager) that we should be taking lunches is seen as a threat of some sort. So instead, my trainer (who is over 40.. has kids my age) ran to our manager and painted a picture of me questioning this as a negative thing like I was challenging the company and her because she went 3 consecutive days without taking one OR offering me one. Coming from my prior job where I was a trainer, I had 2 full weeks structured out with breaks and lunches to give new employees time to breath and soak in new information while training, I know what a good training schedule looks like and how to execute one. This on the other hand, is an absolute mess and I am being treated like a dog. When I was called into the managers office on my 6th day, it was her and another manager sitting there and immediately said, “it has been brought to our attention that you are questioning if our companies policies are above state law.” Mind you, before this sit down, NO ONE had any sit downs with me to ask how my training was going, what I’ve learned, how I was doing, nothing. This was my first sit down interaction with my direct manager. During the entire interaction she wasn’t making eye contact with me, but with her colleague instead, and making unprofessional facial expressions and kinda laughing/smirking at my responses to intimidate me. Apparently also asking if the random 4 hour orientation added onto the schedule in a week on my day off was paid and what it would entail, was offensive and baffling to them as well. She got defensive and asked me if I wanted to learn about the company or not. I said of course, I was just confused why it was added onto my third weeks schedule without notice bc typically that happens right away so I was wondering what it would cover that hasn’t been so far. She framed the entire interaction to be hostile, and when I was let out of the office, they closed the door behind me and stayed in there talking about me, so when I came out to find my trainer who tattled on me, she was nowhere to be found, and I had no idea what to do for the rest of my shift until I just clocked out.
I was told I can’t shadow ANYONE except my trainer so I don’t retain false information from new employees, even if my trainer is speaking a language I don’t understand or speak. Therefore I couldn’t leave that meeting and just shadow someone else since my trainer was nowhere to be found. They should try playing these games with teenagers who don’t know any better instead of me. Probably gonna get fired tomorrow.