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There’s no way this is normal, right?

Probably not the typical case of having a shitty manager (and boss), but I'm a minor (16) working on the books, and my manager recently called me in (on a day which I'm on-call for granted), had my dad drive me there. Which both my boss and manager are aware that I'm a minor, I do not have independent transportation, and live all the way on the other side of the city. I took the job because it's close to where I go to school, so I figured it'd be painless. After working non-stop for the next 40 or so minutes that they knew were insanely busy, my co-worker taps me and says “[manager] asked for you at [second location], need a cashier there.” To which I'm completely flabbergasted about because again, I JUST got to the first location, so why didn't they just ask for me over there in…


Probably not the typical case of having a shitty manager (and boss), but I'm a minor (16) working on the books, and my manager recently called me in (on a day which I'm on-call for granted), had my dad drive me there. Which both my boss and manager are aware that I'm a minor, I do not have independent transportation, and live all the way on the other side of the city. I took the job because it's close to where I go to school, so I figured it'd be painless.

After working non-stop for the next 40 or so minutes that they knew were insanely busy, my co-worker taps me and says “[manager] asked for you at [second location], need a cashier there.” To which I'm completely flabbergasted about because again, I JUST got to the first location, so why didn't they just ask for me over there in the first place?

I call my manager and argue with him for all of 5 minutes, remind him that I don't have a car and it's going to take me 30 minutes to walk there. Doesn't care, blah blah blah, hangs up. I make sure my co-worker is fine and has everything before I go, walk out 30 minutes in usual shitty weather in my city. And I'm working nearly by myself, had it not been for one other person there. So it's just us two, and the boss nor the manager are even here.

I'm supposed to be scheduled until 4pm, and they more or less just inched me into staying until 7, because this store can't operate off just one person. I don't wish that kind of hell on anyone. But I worked my shift, did my part, and I'm gonna start saying no to favors a little more often.

TL;DR
I'm just salty is all.

My boss and my manager are inconsiderate assholes, nothing new here I bet, but damn does that leave a bad impression.

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