I’m on my phone, so if this is hard to read i apologize in advance. I’ve had it with my workplace. I’m a waitress in Toronto and I have reached my breaking point.
During January we stopped doing dine ins because of lockdown and so everyones shifts got cut by a lit. Mine from 25-30 hours a week to 4 hours a week at most. When we started getting more hours (the shifts were distributed unfairly, most people got 0-4 hours a week but other workers got a full 20-40 hours), I asked my boss for more shifts because i have student loans to pay off, and she looked me straight in the eye and went “Don’t your parents pay that for you?” As if its so outrageous for someone to pay for their own schooling and it isn’t the norm? Then continued paying the high school employees more than me by $2. In Canada, iirc people under 18 get paid $1-2 less than minimum wage and shes paying them minimum wage + $2 tips.
She said she understood and would start scheduling me more, but continued to give me 4-5 hours a week to spite me.
Since then she’s made snide comments about my significant other and insinuating he’s going to cheat on me, because his profession has a lot of women in it (he’s a nurse).
She also keeps asking me about my weight (i’m fairly underweight and keep telling her idk how much i weigh), shorted me on my tips (giving $1 an hour or less) and i was missing $7 from my pay last week that I wont get back .Sorry if its confusing, but i make $15 plus $1-1.50 for each hour that i work.
To make matters worse she constantly suspects of us stealing our OWN tips (not adding the “change” aka tips immediately into the register), micromanages us and stalks the security camera, and changes our schedules 30 minutes before or after our shift. I also want to add that i do duties outside of my position too, like wash the dishes and clean the bathroom etc so i’m angry about being taken advantage of.
This place also has a 95% turnover rate, all of the waiters except for one were hired last summer and people usually quit 4-6 months in
Thanks for reading my rant! I’ll probably delete this but it felt good to vent and i hope i can find a new job elsewhere soon.
TLDR: tired of being micromanaging, unfairness and disrespected.