I get paid the legal minimum wage therefore my job should expect the legal minimum from me.
But today I am opening the shop – I am a key holder who cashes up at the end of the day but not a manager or anything like it, I am literally the lowest paid possible employee of a shop – and my manager has the day off.
If I overslept (due to the clock change maybe) and didn’t go in, the shop wouldn’t open and the company wouldn’t make money.
But my manager is off today and the shop still runs fine .. how have we accepted this as normal?
Anyway she bought me and my colleague a bag of treat size Twix to motivate us to meet the sales targets – I’m older than my colleagues so I ask her to explain the targets which are impossible to meet.
She gives a long answer about Head Office needing us to meet the targets but essentially her career will rise and her bonus will rise if we go in and sell enough to meet the targets. How have we accepted this?
Most of my friends work office jobs and if they are ill they consider whether they may call in sick or whatever. If I feel sick I need to know at least twelve hours before my shift starts whether I’m going in or not because the responsibility of opening up rests solely on me. If my manager was sick, she would probably text me a sick face emoji and then tell me to keep reaching the targets.
maybe this more of a r/showerthoughts ..