I applied to a job that listed “higher than award rate” which is $25.18 (+20% for a weekend shift) meaning I should be earning more than $31. In the interview the owner writes $32 on paper, but I don't ask for a copy as this is just a notebook and a small business. I get my first pay check, it's $29.50, which is actually below award rate, and below the legal minimum. I wait another pay cycle before asking, and I ask for the $32 rate.
“We never talked about $32, no one here earns any more than anyone else, the rate is $31.50” (after laundry allowences and fluffy stuff that is the award rate plus $1)
I had been “accidentally” put on a probationary period. This is all the account department's mistake, as in my boss didn't tell her my rate. No back pay. Nothing.
That week the owner gets COVID. I work Saturday and Sunday for pretty much minimum wage. She gets better and rosters me on 8-11 on a Saturday, but cancels my 8 hour Sunday shift. Who in the fuck wants a 3 hour Saturday morning shift? At 7:40 she calls and asks where I am. I reply to her message, which read “where r y ?.” And come in at 8.
At 8:45ish the dishwasher needed a clean, dishes were coming out with streaks, so some dishes aren't clean. At 9 the owner sees an espresso shot in a cup with a streak, she asks the other barista working on milk (I'm on shots) what it is, he throws me under the bus. It happens again at about 9:30.
She comes up to me, says my hands are dirty please can she see them. My hands have only coffee grinds on them, and she says “we have some standards to uphold here, this is too dirty. I don't want it to happen again. It would be a shame to have to fire you so soon after you got hired.”.
20 minutes later she tells me to go out the back, I'm too sweaty.
Of course I'm sweaty. I just had my job threatened immediately after showing any kind of backbone, and this was in front of coworkers. Its also a busy morning shift.
So fucking sick of shitty business owners thinking I deserve to beg for 3 hours of work on a Saturday at an inconvenient time, where I'm not being paid right.
Don't think I'll ever go back