This is in Texas.
Some context, my girlfriend works at a restaurant as a server and has a side gig as a baby sitter for a family. She’s ALWAYS working for them Wednesdays so it’s never been in her availability for months. These assholes scheduled her on a Wednesday and while the owner is on vacation fired her without warning or notice when she didn’t show up. She only knew she was scheduled that day because she checked the schedule for the next day and saw she was supposed to work. Nobody called her to ask where she was or to tell her she missed a shift, and now she’s just deleted from the schedule. Bitch ass manager doesn’t like my girlfriend because she’s repeatedly brought up tip share. the waiters tip out 4%(!!!) of sales to bussers, equaling to 20% of tips, even on days where they don’t have bussers. When she brought this up they swore up and down the bussers got all that money on the weekend but when she worked as busser she didn’t receive near as much money as they’re putting in to tipshare. She averages like $200 as a server so she’s tipping out $40 every shift when they only have bussers on Saturday and Sunday. So multiple servers are tipping out $40 in a day but when she worked a shift as a busser on a Saturday she made $70 off tip share. Obviously the math makes no sense at all, they can’t explain it at all and get flustered and mad when it comes up. It really seems like retaliation for one thing, and even though it’s Texas I have a feeling it’s not exactly legal to fire someone for not showing on a day that had been agreed upon as not available since the beginning of her working there. How do we respond to these work place shmucks?