Tl;dr : I ghosted a job for the first time today after they fell through on the promises they made.
The longer version : I moved to a new area recently, and got interviewed and hired at a Fast Food restaurant that I had work at extensively during my teenage years, in a different city. During the interview, I made it clear I was looking to be making at least $15/hr, 40hr/week. Its what I needed to be comfortable and get to a better place in life. I was told all was well, but that Id start at $12/hr, and have my pay increase until I went from “In-training” to full “Manager” status.
- I’d like to remark, that I hated the original location I worked for, as they had also been less-than-stellar to their employees, but thought it’d be different in a different location. I also turned down a set offer for that salary at another company to pursue this one. –
Back to the shitshow this became. When hired, they said it would take no more than a month. They SAID my pay would increase as I made progress. So with the incentive that my training would progress dependent on how quickly I learned, I put in the $15/hr effort, for the first two weeks. I made sure I was asking questions when I wasnt actively being given explanations. I offered to jump in on things I wasn’t familiar with, so I could become familiar with them.
I realized, after about a week, that my training manager didnt really want to train me, for some reason. It felt like pulling teeth to get new information. Id ask about things, and be told I “dont need to know that” for my position. He frequently said he “didnt like having help,” or “wasnt much of a team player,” when I would try to learn to do the tasks he was doing. We would have lunch rushes on my training shifts, and rather than let me tough through the mild pressure to deliver, I was silently made unnecessary on the cook line – one of the things I was most needing to learn, the biggest difference between Manager and Non-Manager duties. Even after a couple weeks where I WAS handling them, during dinner rushes. Off his shifts.
At two weeks, I asked how far along I was. They told me probably another month. By week 3, I decided to act my wage. Especially once schedules started being posted with less and less hours on them. 35, 36, 37, 33, 26.5. Next week would have been my 6th week working with them. Today was my 5th Friday, technically.
But the thing is, I was told the multi-location, Franchise Owner, was likely to stop by all of last weekend. And every time he MIGHTVE stopped by, they assigned locations for us. I got moved from cooking, to cashier, every time. I came in Wednesday, to a new face in the team. In a Managers polo. With the GM of the store, my training manager, saying he’d be doing the tasks I was hired to do, by this weekend. They hired someone to fill the position I was hired for.
When the schedule had come out fo this past week, and they “cut everyones hours,” I had started putting in applications elsewhere. I had a very successful interview today. They told me orientation will be Monday. So I no-called, no-showed for the first time in my life today, with no intent of going back. Spent my Friday night relaxing.
Employers who dont respect their employees, should not and will not get respect from their employees. Fuck em.