He's young, with a kid and needs money. So he works as a server and meat cutter at a restaurant.
He was telling me last night that he's doing 15-hour days, he's being given split shifts where he starts in the morning, does serving to a certain point. Then he punches out and waits around for a few hours, helping out around the restaurant because his friends work there and then he punches back in for a back of house shift to finish off the night.
He tells me on serving if anyone gets to the overtime mark they are immediately sent home, regardless of what their schedule looks like or how much work is needed.
He's not getting paid for the few hours He's just meandering and helping out.
He's forced into the split shift stuff because he can't get more hours up front without volunteering to split shift and do some in back because only the back of house is certified for overtime. So he ends up getting three or so hours of overtime at the end of the week by spacing his shifts out like this.
It sounds like a completely screwed up system…