Okay I’m on mobile sorry if I fuck up. And I hope this is the right sub to ask? I’ve never posted before. This employer I have right now sucks for a lot of reasons but recently I got in trouble for letting another employee know that I’m in training for a manager position. My GM said all this crap about how telling them undermines their respect for me and how now they’d never respect me as a manager? As a manager, my pay would have increased to $18-$20/hr plus tips (smaller cut of tips than regular crewmembers though). As punishment for telling my coworker, my pay was cut from $14/hr plus tips to $12/hr plus tips. This is the most money I have ever made! On top of the pay cut, my hours were cut to TEN HOURS a week! Was my manager just pulling a bait-and-switch on me this whole time and I was never going to be promoted to manager? I am so upset right now. I’m a good employee who goes above and beyond every day and I do everything asked of me. I come in early, I stay late, I take on tasks that weren’t part of my job description, even ones I was specifically told I wouldn’t have to do in my interview. I come in on my days off. I just have no idea what to do now. This was the best pay I could get after applying to jobs for months. I’ve already started to apply for new ones. I have been funding my college degree completely alone on scholarships and loans and busting my ass and I need this money. I’m 24 and all my friends already have degrees but I have to go so slow because it’s all I can afford to do. I’m so mad. All because I told the truth when asked? And I think there’s nothing I can do. Why was this a problem can someone explain it to me?
ETA: literally right after I posted this, a new schedule was added that gave me a few more hours (from 9-15.5) then a coworker asked me to take her shift, I said yes and told her to notify the GM as is policy, and the schedule was updated to add that shift which would have put me at 20 hours (which I need to not lose my SNAP assistance in July, because I’ll have to prove I work 80 hours a month at least by then or lose my assistance since I have no dependents or anything) BUT he took away one of my previously scheduled shifts at the same time that was LONGER so now I’m on the schedule for 14 hours. What the fuck! I’m being punished for taking on more work now?