Yesterday I started my new job at a Volkswagen dealership as a sales person. First time doing sales after being a dealership photographer for 7 years making 15 hr.
First day went well, learned a lot, shadowed a salesperson all day. We sold a car, great. Second day today, I have nothing to do because it’s the busiest day of the week and nobody wants to train me. That’s fine, I’ll just do calls. I was scheduled 11-8 so I ate breakfast at 10:30 before going in. They catered lunch at noon and obviously I wasn’t hungry yet. So at 3 pm I’m like ok time for lunch let me talk to my direct manager and let him know I’ll be back in an hour. He tells me “yeah we don’t take breaks or leave for lunch on Saturdays” then walks off.
I’m like okay, but legally I’m allowed 2 fifteen minute breaks and a 30 minute lunch break. So I sit back down trying to decide what to do, different manager comes up and is like hey you good, and I’m like no not really, I need to eat, I’m hypoglycemic, I get hangry if I don’t eat. And he says the same thing the other manager said. They don’t leave on Saturdays and that’s that. It would have been fine had they mentioned this and I could have planned better, brought snacks or whatever. But I’m broke AF and can’t order anything to be delivered. So I’m just like ok this ain’t the job for me then.
Fuck working 9 hour days without a break or food.
Anyway that’s my rant. Thanks for reading.