Author: Olivia

I hope this is the right subreddit for this question. Basically I need to miss a bit of work so I can interview somewhere less shitty and I’ve exhausted my good excuses. Already pulled the doctor/vet ones. Right now I’m leaning towards food poisoning/stomach bug but I need help selling it. Already planning to skip lunch that day. Better suggestions?

Short back story so I work as a line cook at a counter service restaurant that opened over the pandemic. They havnt been doing so well and I’m pretty sure my boss isn’t making money, in fact probably losing money after payroll/expenses n all that. But he asked me to cover him so he can go away for a couple days. Is it reasonable to ask for a bonus or time and 1/2 or something like that? At my old spot when my manager needed me to cover he’d pay me his wage for those hours.

Mostly a vent. I am currently on disability for mental issues, and they don’t give me much at all to live, so I figured I would try to work an under the table job to try to make a little extra, to survive, and keep my insurance so I could stay in therapy. I got lucky because an old acquaintance/friend of mine, has a family partaking in running a business, and I Had worked for them before. When I started things seemed to be going well. I had laid out how much I can work because of my disability and number of appointments, and everyone seemed understanding, first two weeks flew by. Week three my friend says she’ll be going on vacation to Florida with her step brother, and is leaving her sister, who was supposed to be “supervisor” in charge to work with us. Making 4 of us left…