My employer has been making cuts left and right to the point that we’re now running our store on half of a skeleton crew. We’re open 82 hours a week, corporate is only allowing us to schedule 208 hours. It’s insane. On top of that, I make $10/hour now. It was fine when I was allowed 24 hours a week. Not ideal, but I could manage to get by. Now I’m lucky if I get 2 shifts a week and the resentment is kicking in, HARD.
I had a customer today get shitty over a $25 restocking fee for returning a high priced item. I do badly wanted to tell her that her restocking fee was 2.5x what I made in an hour, so maybe chill. Another customer threw a massive fit because I can’t just give her the 15% healthcare workers discount without her showing her ID. She had it on her, she just wanted to berate me over a $1.20 discount.
I have such thin skin about these kinds of interactions lately. I’m so jaded and angry that I can’t afford to pay my bills AND feed myself, so I’m just bitter and it’s getting worse every day. 2 hours into my shift today, I had rung out more in sales than I will earn in the next 2 months. How can a company justify this? I love my store, I love my managers, but these CEOs are fucking greedy assholes.