Little background, I was hired on not available for vacations and needing the same hours as my roommate because they are my car and we can’t afford multiple shifts going too and from there. They are paying 10/hr which is lower than they said it would be and the lowest out of my jobs.
They refused to train me. I had computer training and part of it is pdfs for in person training I’m supposed to complete and pass before I even go on the floor. They just told me to read it and carry on. I was wondering if I could finish my training early by coming in on another day, they told me I could do it at home unpaid.
I get to my first shift I’m supposed to be doing computer training but the manager was out so I was put in the floor to learn a position o wasn’t signed on to do. They finally come back and I do computer training (which at the time they failed to mention that there was even more training that retained to my actual job that I had to do as well).
Next shift Im pretty much just standing around because my manager doesn’t want to train me. She is in call training another manager from another store. I ask to do some practice I get to practice one tiny part of my job and that’s it. A quick once over on how to use the ordering system and I’m just supposed to have it memorized now.
I couldn’t sign in because someone messed up my number and when the store manager tried to fix it they got mad at me like it was my fault.
Next shift it’s a 7 hour shift (I was told they only scheduled 4 hour shifts) I’m alone. There’s no one who knows how to do my job to help me. I don’t even know where to start. I’m expected to just figure it out. And if I can’t I need to call my manager on their off day, off the clock, to help me. I’m just unpacking things and sweeping for 7 hours. A customer comes up and I’m panicking. What did they expect leaving me alone with no idea how to do anything. Still can’t log in and I later found out that after they fixed it I still couldn’t log in. Another shift manager came to help me and we brute forced our way through two orders.
Todays shift isn’t much different i come back to 3 shift managers trying to figure out how to use the system and a line forming. They ask me if I know how to use the system and i don’t.
Every time it’s like this. As well, the ac is broken and doesn’t even reach my work station when it does work. They give us a rickety homemade step stool to use since I’m short. They make me and my roommate do tasks that we didn’t sign on for. Cleaning the bathroom sweeping the entire store. I’m fine with doing them but it’s not in my job description. I’m sitting here trying to close my workplace down and being told I need to go do someone else’s task and being rushed to do it as well.
Before all of this my first red flag, the store manager texts me and tells me they are ready to put me in the system. I rush up there last second with my roommate while they were leaving to work and they wind up being late because of it. They aren’t ready. I’m fine with waiting stuff happens I get that. An HOUR passes, I’m been standing on my feet, starting to get sore, I’m starving. And they finally get to me, and tell me that I need my social security card. I tell them I have it memorized. They said they need that card. “Sorry I should have texted you that” you don’t think. So I have to ask my abusive grandmother to come pick me up. We get food and take about an hour to give the store manager plenty of time to get there stuff together.
I get back up there, they’re busy with an interview. So I’m stuck waiting again. It’s about another hour waiting. I finally get with the store manager and they ask ME if I have everything ready. start putting me in the system turns out of been hired a week ago but they didn’t get back to me until just now. I put in my tax info, they put in my social security number and give it back to me. They didn’t even need it. They didn’t scan it, nothing. I get all wrapped up. It took 10 minutes. By the time I got home after the whole thing almost 4 hours had passed.
I would have just said never mind but I need the money. Thankfully one of my other jobs gave me extra hours.
I’m really sorry is this so all over the place I’m typing things as I remember them. I’m used to working shitty jobs that abuse me and I’m trying to be better and put my mental and physical health first. I want some advice. What do y’all think? Should I stay? I’m honestly loosing money working here and they treat me like shit and I’m stressing out every shift. I’m so tired of it you know? Jobs don’t usually get to me and I usually don’t give a shit. But I literally don’t know what I’m doing and my customers are paying a lot of money for a job well done that I don’t even know how to do.
I’m so tired of working jobs like this and having to figure everything out on my own.