I work for a plant nursery.
Quick backstory our supervisor is out for surgery so our District Manager is taking over till she gets back. She also fired 6 people because apparently we are over hours, but in reality we all know the more she cuts the bigger her bonus. We are down to 3 and we are the 3rd biggest store in our district (we are the vendors for Home Depot) today when we got in at 9am it was 91, but felt like 101. She worked us till we almost passed out (one of us actually threw up). She kept saying take breaks, but never allowed us to take a break. When we went to our lunch around noon it was 101 and felt like 113. Our lunch (30 mins) was the only break we got in this heat for an 7hr shift.
Normally I can do all my tasks and be done early, but this heat is making me really sick and she called me dumb today for not following instructions that were never given. Then called my coworker dumb to me for the same thing. I swear gets a sick pleasure from watching us struggle in this heat.
It sucks cause I actually like this job, I am in school and was trying to find a summer job. But this is ridiculous. My coworkers said she did the same thing on Tuesday when I was off and it was hotter then. With heat index it felt like 115 by 12pm.