This was a couple of jobs and years ago for me, but I thought some of you might get a kick out of my horrible work experience.
So I worked at a deli in a grocery store. We would serve cold salads, slice deli meats and cheeses, make ice cream cones, fry, and sell chicken, the whole nine yards. I originally applied to work in the bakery at this store, but I was so desperate that when they offered me a deli position, I quickly accepted.
When I first started working there, I was told by the person that trained me that to clean the deli slicers you would just spray them, turn on the blade, and hold a cloth to the spinning blade. I was told that “no one has cut themselves” this way (which turned out to be false), and it would be fine.
As the title suggests, one day I'm cleaning a slicer when it slices through the rag and into my finger. The cut was pretty deep, but not to the bone or anything like that. My coworkers were really kind and helped me get cleaned up and bandaged, and I was encouraged to work for the rest of the day (double gloved up) which I begrudgingly did.
The next morning the cut is still bleeding. As young twenty-somethings often do, I asked my mom what to do, and she told me to go to the doctor to have it checked out. At the doctor, they ask how I got the injury, and I answer honestly that it happened at work. They take down my workplace info, and I think nothing of it. Doc tells me I probably should have come in for stitches, but now it's too late. He glues it up for me, gives me a tetanus shot, and tells me I'll have a nasty little scar (which I do).
Months later a supervisor tells me that he thinks it's stupid that management wrote me up for the incident. I was confused because I hadn't been told about any sort of write-up. Another month later, I get a yellow slip telling me I'd been written up for not following safety protocols (I was never spoken to in person by a member of management about the issue). Apparently, there were chain mail gloves that we were supposed to be using when we cleaned the slicers. I had absolutely no knowledge of this, as it was my first month on the job. I had not seen anyone use one and had not been told to use one.
My non-confrontational self decided just to take the L. It was either that or out my coworkers who trained me incorrectly, who were my friends at that point. Eventually, I was still promoted to supervisor (where I trained everyone to use the chain mail gloves because WTF????).
With the promotion, I got a $2/hour pay raise. Long story short, they didn't add it to my pay for 6 months even though I repeatedly asked. Months after I quit they did back pay me for the raise, again, after I repeatedly asked.