My boyfriend works for a fast food chain restaurant.
For the last month or two he’s has a new shift leader he has come home with problems about more than a few times now. This guy is responsible for manually clocking in and out employees as they can’t do it themselves for some reason.
This leader has been forcing my boyfriend and other coworkers to stay past their scheduled time. Which is very illegal. To provide an example he was scheduled till 10 and the shift leader would not let him clock out till after 11. This was about the regular time frame, 30-90 minutes after shift.
Today my boyfriend calls me and is crying. The shift leader berated him for how he did his general tasks he’s been doing over a year now, leader gave him lip and attitude when he asked if he could clock out on time, was rude and talked behind his back about him to other coworkers joking about “I’ll make him do it”, with that has asked him to do tasks outside of what he expects and has been told from other shift leaders, slammed the register on the counter aggressively when the leader clocked him out at the time he was scheduled to. There are many more instances of other shit, mainly repeating scenarios as described above but also incredibly passive aggressive comments about “this shouldn’t take you this long”, “you wanna leave already (which was after his scheduled time)”, and in general just refusing to acknowledge the extra time spent, not asking like other shift leaders have, “you can leave if you like to but if you can stay that would help.”
I am furious for him. He is not a person who cries ever, it’s not like him. The shift leader scared him with his aggressiveness and slamming the register. My bf does plan to reach out to HR and provide all this info and again, he’s not the only person he’s done this to. But the micro and passive aggressions have been targeting him.
I only know his name, where he works, and what he’s done, and I know I can only do so much but I want to do something. Of course non-violent as well that’s a big no and too far.
When I’m done I want him to remember my name.