I got hired on as a 1099 to be a sales associate for a local small owned business.
I’m 6 months pregnant and constantly working open to close every other day from 10-8 which is fine I can handle that.
The part I CAN’T handle is the fact that when I work alone I’m not allowed to have a break because we are ‘losing sales’ and if I’m not alone and the owner is with me, she will not let me walk away from the register because of sales and she micromanages what I eat to the point where she will buy me whatever food she is eating so I don’t take a break and walk to the food court.
It’s only me and one other employee, my manager. The owner doesn’t make any schedules, the manager does if she has any time but most of the time I know I’m working 12-24 hours before I need to be there. I never get paid when I’m supposed to. I have a 18 month old and the owner told me that even if they were sick, the shop had to come first and when I expressed how not okay that was, she just berated me and now every time someone comes to apply… SHE ASKED IF THEY HAVE KIDS because she told me and the one other employee she wasn’t hiring anyone who had kids.
She is constantly complaining about how no employees stay and how no one is reliable. I’ve left this job once before because of this foolery but came back because I needed the money but I constantly hear about it every single day.
I know what I need to do but unfortunately I can’t quit until I have another job. I hate working. I just want to spend time raising my family, not working my life away to barely even pay my bills.