I live in New Jersey. I worked at an ice cream shop for 3 years when I was 17 until I was 20. This ice cream shop stole employee time by having a closing manager write the time we “clocked out” but they would write early times to make it seem like we cleaned up earlier. They also would only go by 15 minute blocks because the manager was too lazy to actually add time punches. So if we finished at 1108 they clocked us out at 11. We also had a meeting after clocking out when we would count tips so we were still working off the clock technically.
The owner had a huge ego and would hold meeting every year sometimes more for all the stores where he would yell and swear at us. One girl actually passed out during it and crying during them was the norm. What a dick.
Fast forward and I’m getting pissed. I do all the “boy tasks” like all the physical jobs at the store and working in the deep freezer. Once they had me clean bugs out of the lights since I’m a boy. I come in one shift and start getting berated by a manager I’ve had issues with for just being nasty for no reason. I tell the owner and he does nothing about it. I give the gm my two weeks and she asks if I can stay and work for a third. I agree as she never was bad to me personally so I’ll help her. On my first night I closed the store, the next morning the owner calls me at 8 in the morning. He starts swearing and specifically accused me of organizing a strike and trying to get people to quit with me. I deny it and say it’s not true. He says that I’m calling his employee who told him that a liar and to never say I worked there on applications because hell make sure I don’t get the job. What a pos