I’ve been constantly belittled by coworkers and management for weeks now and I finally had enough. For context, I signed up for the overnight shift, which means I’m my own shift and I don’t get a break. It’s hard but it’s an extra $17 and hour, or is at least supposed to be. Since I started overnights I’ve found it really difficult. My series of tasks is on an hourly schedule at this gas station, which means that if a crackhead with a forehead tattoo wastes 20 minutes of my time talking about Joe Biden and gas prices, now I’m behind with making the cookies. So sometimes on Friday or Saturday nights I have to leave some of the less important things undone because I refuse to work for free and my store has a policy that I’m not allowed to spend even an extra fifteen minutes clocked in. Enter the workplace bullies. When I first started out, I was having a lot of trouble so I focused on getting the basics done and for some reason our paperwork specialist had a huge problem with it. Now I’m of course more practiced but this was the very start of the harassment. So I had a little print out of everything that I was supposed to do, and the paperwork specialist, Bri, told me that I was supposed to be making more pizzas than what was on the list. I asked people who worked overnights in the past if that was true and I asked 3/4 managers and they all said that the print out was right, and one of them even made a more detailed version for me. So the next time I saw her, I told her who I talked to about it and she said that we were running out of pizzas still. This girl again does not work in food service and is not a manager, so I disregarded it and asked her why I have to make them. Then, the one manager I did not ask who has been listening to us the entire time said “Fine, now I’m asking you.” And afterwards Bri started going around the store, yelling about what I didn’t do or what I didn’t do right. The manager just watched all this. Turns out they’re friends outside of work. So they keep harassing me until I document three accounts where their behavior was totally out of line. I bring it to my favorite manager, and she tells me she’s going to have Bri fired, and hopefully the manager’s behavior will straighten up after. Except she doesn’t get fired and this continues on a smaller scale. Now because I’m my own shift, it’s really easy for my coworkers to see anything undone and know that I’m the one responsible. When I’m done with my shift, the last thing I want to hear is that I didn’t do pudding cups because I know exactly why I didn’t do pudding cups and having been working with them on day shift previously, I know they DEFINITELY would not have done the pudding cups either. Management has been completely dismissive all types of disrespect and on top of that, they’ve made me come in when I requested the night off four days in advance so I could get my car fixed during the day, and they didn’t remember to get anyone to cover for me just last week. For reference, some of the people complaining about the job I do have called in ten minutes before their shift on multiple occasions and the manager that enables harassment has taken a one week vacation, come back for two days, and took another week off right after in the past two months. What absolutely takes the cake is that I haven’t even gotten the $17 I was supposed to get for months. I’ve brought it up to management that I’m still making $15 and hour, the day shift rate, but it hasn’t been fixed this whole time.
TL;DR – Took the night shift, ended up bullied, short of pay, and dismissed.