Background, I am a underage casual worker under Australian law in a family owned establishment. The owner relies on her children to work and maintain the shop, and she doesn’t want to pay non family, as the business does not make all too much. Two of her children want to leave the cafe in the next month or so, and have been training to do the ‘senior’ positions in the cafe.
Her management of staff is frankly poor. She does not respond to leave request emails, rosters you after acknowledging your leave, quick to anger and does not release the roster 4-1 days before the next business week. It is impossible to plan a life without a roster, we have an insane staff turn over rate, with all of the fully trained staff I talk to having other job offers in the mail box.
She has illegal business practices as well. She previously had head of shifts working off contract, we don’t receive payslips, just money in the bank, and she owes staff wages from a “bank transfer issue?”
I want to leave. Currently I am being blacklist shifted once a week because I had the audacity to go on a holiday that I understood was approved by her, and gave her full notice of. I love my job, I love cooking and making coffees and I love my coworkers, but I have no more patience with this toxic management. If I leave, she has to frantically train another so that her kids can leave too. I have better job prospects across the road anyway. I needed to get that off my chest, I’m thinking about handing in my two weeks.