So my girlfriend works at HEB in Texas, we were both excited when we got the job because they pay well and we've heard it a good place to work for compared to many others.
However, She works in the bakery, and the expectations have been proven to be ridiculous and borderline unrealistic.
They give her lists of stuff to bake and prep, and the lists are like, 500 cookies, 20 cakes other large numbers where she's expected to put out THOUSANDS of products a shift. She almost always comes up a little short and has to either stay late and get overtime to finish, and then she gets bitched at for taking too long and going into overtime (which is the managers fault too for scheduling her like that by now) or leaves on time to avoid overtime and gets bitched at for not making enough product.
She's typically expected to do her entire workload by herself, while taking care of customers if one comes to the bakery counter.. There are other people in the department, but they have different jobs and they don't share her workload or help her at all.
She started out working 5am to 1pm, then they moved her to 9am to 5pm, and her boss just moved her to 1pm to 930pm which really pissed her off. Now, her boss has told her “if this shift doesn't work out, I'm going to have to move you to the 2am-10am shift” almost all ike a threat.
Can she actually do that? If my girlfriend says she's unavailable for that shift then they can't make her work it right? She's told me in the past how all her coworkers are very right-leaning politically, and she is very left leaning, and it shows, and I suspect that her manager and coworkers just don't like her because of her political views and lack of tolerance for discriminatory language.
How can she handle this professionally, and tell her manager that she will not work that shift? I've told her to see if she can transfer to a different department, because it sounds like the people she works with and for are just assholes who don't like her and are trying to get her to quit by giving her a shift they know she would hate.
Can she update her availability? Maybe call HR? Any advice helps