Hey y’all, so I’ve been part of this sub for a while and see people dealing with a variety of weird stuff from corporations and employers.
Well, after desperately searching months for a job to pay the rent I got one at a cafe in a gas station, that rhymes with “peasons snorner yarket kafe”
Off the bat, there’s a ton of huge red flags. For starters, there’s only like 9 employees aside from the 2 managers, which is rough because they don’t want us to ever call out of shifts and if we don’t find coverage we could be fired, as it’s at-will. Well it’s hard to find coverage when 6/9 employees are scheduled a day.
They’re super micromanaged, I was warned by a coworker who started about a month before me that they have cameras EVERYWHERE, and there’s supposedly a couple of people who are constantly or at least regularly monitoring the cameras. Like, if you’re uniform is crooked they’ll call the store manager and rat you out, and apparently they can and will look at whatever you’re doing on your phone and take disciplinary action if they deem it inappropriate, like if I was at work typing they post they could fire me.
My manager was gone for a week and sent out a group text nitpicking everything everyone did for the whole time she was gone and threatening disciplinary action.
We don’t get breaks, even if someone were to work a 10 hour shift they wouldn’t get one. We are not allowed to sit and as I have back issues and knees problem I occasionally lean against the counter to rest and have gotten in trouble for it.
They say we don’t get breaks because we are allowed to eat on shift, but that seems questionable to me because it’s food service and all previous food service jobs I’ve worked, we weren’t allowed to do that for food safety reasons.
Also, the manager is super unprofessional and talks sh!t about the employees when they are off shift, I have heard it first hand. One girl was trying to find coverage ufor a family emergency 2 days in advance and she called her lazy and started saying rude things about her and how it couldn’t be a real family emergency and she should nknow better. There’s more too but my phone is lagging typing this and it’s annoying me. Thoughts?