I’ve been working there for a year and a half. I hate it but I’m a full time college student and need the money. These are things that have happened over time. I might’ve missed some but can I report them for any of this? Especially the fire alarm and temperature? (they are still happening). I work in the US for a big retail store. Sorry for any typos.
- broken fire alarm system that beeps every day. A manager told me the whole system needs to be replaced but the company is too cheap to do it. I hear it through my whole shift sometimes.
- Toilet that breaks down a lot
- Cluttered break space. Sometimes is full of uboats. It does not have much room to reach the lockers or sit down.
- Door doesn’t work and will stay open. Even when it was snowing outside no one came to fix it. It’s very cold in there. To the point where my coworker have to wear their jackets, hats, and sometimes gloves.
- No heat. Even when we are constantly closing the door it’s extremely cold. Especially the back room. My hands are freezing most of the time. It feels like it’s as cold as outside. It’s not kept at a reasonable temperature and my hands sometimes hurt after work.
- Sometimes they don’t fire people. They just taking them off the schedule and will avoid answering their calls.
- I’ve heard my manager state on several occasions how she would not hire an more women because we “needed” men to do heavy lifting jobs. I’ve also heard her say that my coworkers age didn’t matter and that he needed to push himself to keep up with case count.
- We don’t enforce the mask mandate. I did for a while but it was obvious that the managers didn’t care so I stopped saying something. I didn’t want to be harassed by customers without support. They won’t stand up for us. Even when the customers are being incredibly nasty and disrespectful. They’ll just complain in the back like the rest of us.
- Made us open the store even though it had flooded over night. Over night ppl spend the shift cleaning the place. Me and the morning manager continued moping in the morning and put wet floor signs everywhere. The supervisor wanted all stores open by 8am.
- Sometimes they’ll make random phone calls canceling shifts because they’re over hours.
- Changing shift schedule and not informing us on time.
I’d like to mention that two of my managers have mentioned calling 311. I’m just not sure if it’s actually possible. Or if I can do it anonymously. I’d appreciate advice.