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Context: Ive been working as a cashier for a discount grocer company in Canada for almost two years. For the first year-ish i was just a part time associate and things were relatively great. Shortly after that year mark our cash supervisor left, and the boss started looking to promote someone, claiming he didnt have the funds to hire out of store. After a couple of MONTHS I decided to talk to him about working towards it. He immediately started giving me “stretch tasks”, a few months after(late this past March) I was promoted to full time(not cash supervisor, and no raise, keep in mind im still minimum wage at this point). Then around a month or so later i was given a 20 cent promotion for “passing a total hour number threshold”(nothing to do with the supervisory job). All the while he is still giving me these stretch tasks(basically just supervisor stuff that is “stretch” because I dont actually officially have the title). Around the time of the full time promotion he actually gave me a basic authorization code, which basically meant Im able to authorize large refunds, and do small cash pick-ups at the POS. Basically he trusts me with LP stuff lmao. Anyway since then, around April or May, he hasnt given me anything at all aside from the odd super minor situational thing that would be functionally irrelevant within a week.
Now: For the longest time Ive been riding this hope that im gonna get the full promotion once I do everything and improve everything he expects from me. But after listening to enough people in my life, and actually reading through a bunch of peoples experiences on this sub, Ive realized how much hes just riding me doing all this stuff(at this point basically just filling the position) without having the official title so he doesnt have to pay me more. This is bad enough. But after the past nine months of this, hes recently actually been doing occasional outsider interviews, and even straight up told me hes gonna be looking for someone outside of the store very soon unless i can “step up” and convince him im “ready” for the position.
Hes said and done multiple things to me recently that have just straight up mentally and emotionally hurt me.
We had a province wide minimum wage increase recently of $1.05. While I thankfully got the full amount(keeping my extra 20 cents lol), one of my actual keyholder superiors, who was paid decently better than me before, only got 25 cents and is now being paid the same as me(keep in mind hes officially a keyholder and im only officially an associate). And this man has been there over 5 years, has never missed a shift, and is a fantastic worker. I think he deserves to be paid in solid gold bricks lol.
Our hours are also shit. In an effort to cut hours(something corporate is genuinely making him do), hes giving a select few of us 35 hour weeks for full time work, which is apparently legal in our province, and claims having 40 hours is a luxury. Funny thing is, these select few people are ONLY myself and the two other full time cashiers. Ive looked through different schedules multiple times, and he can DEFINITELY get away with it for other departments too, he just doesnt.
At the end of the day these days, im generally miserable with my job and the small things are starting to really get to me. Currently, the only things really keeping me here are my absolutely amazing co workers, and a few really cool super regular customers.
What do yall think I should do, cause I feel like im at a major crossroads.
Thanks <3 and sorry this became more of a rant/vent.
Also im happy to answer any questions or clarify anything thats needed.