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So I've been at my current place of employment for around 4 months, since April. And as the months go on, I notice more and more stuff that isn't kosher. For context, I am a retail manager (in TX) at a chain that is based in Tennessee. 1) they have me clock out before I drive to the bank every week, which is a 2 hour round trip from my store, and then adjust my time later when I get back so it looks like i wasn't clocked out while I was doing work. 2) the cleaning chemicals that are used at every store are not labeled. That's right, they get the chemicals in bulk and then send them out in bottles with nothing written on them, no label, just blank plastic bottles. And until recently they had us sending back chemical bottles for them to re-use. 3) I get…


So I've been at my current place of employment for around 4 months, since April. And as the months go on, I notice more and more stuff that isn't kosher. For context, I am a retail manager (in TX) at a chain that is based in Tennessee.

1) they have me clock out before I drive to the bank every week, which is a 2 hour round trip from my store, and then adjust my time later when I get back so it looks like i wasn't clocked out while I was doing work.

2) the cleaning chemicals that are used at every store are not labeled. That's right, they get the chemicals in bulk and then send them out in bottles with nothing written on them, no label, just blank plastic bottles. And until recently they had us sending back chemical bottles for them to re-use.

3) I get paid $14.50/hour and my sales associates get paid 13, which is just a gripe and not an actual problem that they can be reprimanded for.

4) they made me sign a non-compete when I started working there that said I wasn't allowed to work for another competing company for at least a year.

5) they had us serving coffee until recently, which they did not have us get food handler certs or anything and our store doesn't have license to serve food

Besides those things, generally the way they handle stuff isnt great. Our work group chats are on Facebook messenger, our entire information database is on Google drive, I wasn't given much training, they have us doing inventory 3 times a week, they have a policy of zero overtime or you get reprimanded and possibly written up, the cameras at my store have never worked since I've been there, and it's a safety issue because of the product we carry, and so on. Even the way they send supplies (parts of a whole container of something, like 10 large trash bags, or a handful of coffee straws, or something) is stupid. I'm done with this. I was planning on notifying OSHA since we won't be in the state for much longer. But what else can I do?

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