I’ve worked part-time for a local cafe/takeaway for two years now. I cook, clean, serve, I do anything and everything. It’s never been an amazing job and it never will be. Most of the workers leave due to the pressure (we get a large amount of tourists on the weekends) and/or the verbal lashings from the cook. It’s shit, but that stuff has never put me over the edge because I have confidence in my work.
I was busy for weeks, and then once I came down from all that I realised I haven’t been paid in almost a month. My boss has been late with this sort of thing before, and I’ve been lenient with it since I’m young and only saving for the future. But it’s not right.
You can’t not pay someone who’s been loyal to your workplace that has such a high turn-over rate.
I’m thinking I will demand for my pay next I see him, and put in my two weeks. I wouldn’t be leaving on such good terms if the food and coffee wasn’t so damn nice.
I am aware that I am a pushover. This was my first job and although it taught me some important things, it also told me that my gripes don’t matter. This has to be my first step for changing that thought before I am stuck like that in adulthood.