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Manager punishing me for my vacation on first day back

I had a month long vacation which was approved and that I was legally entitled to. (For context I am not American, and this occurred in a country where a month long vacation is the norm). Already before my return my manager was being snarky. I had to communicate my college timetable to her and she would write “stop thinking about work and study!” Er, I have to? Then she rostered me on the one day I have classes. I emailed her to remind her I was unavailable that day. And so she just deleted my shift with no reply to my email. So now I’ve returned to my city. I have a few days before work starts. But at my job (retail lol), we have an online roster that only appears during the applicable fortnight. Meanwhile, I could not see the paper roster as I did not want to…


I had a month long vacation which was approved and that I was legally entitled to. (For context I am not American, and this occurred in a country where a month long vacation is the norm).

Already before my return my manager was being snarky. I had to communicate my college timetable to her and she would write “stop thinking about work and study!” Er, I have to?

Then she rostered me on the one day I have classes. I emailed her to remind her I was unavailable that day. And so she just deleted my shift with no reply to my email.

So now I’ve returned to my city. I have a few days before work starts. But at my job (retail lol), we have an online roster that only appears during the applicable fortnight. Meanwhile, I could not see the paper roster as I did not want to return to the worksite before my first day back.

So I had my first shift yesterday. My manager says in a snarky tone “Hello stranger” and then later comments “I wanted you to send some photos not write a whole school report! You must have spent so much time on it”.

And so it is Thursday and I still did not know until my shift if I was working during the weekend, or not or specifically which times I would be working. So I could not even plan anything because, I did not know if I would be working. And I finally see my roster and yes, I am working on the weekend but only one shift. Great.

Then there was the fact that legally I had a right to two rest breaks and a lunch break. I did not get any break until six hours into my eight hour shift. And being retail there must always be at least one person on the floor at all times. And only one person can be on break at a time.

So, great to be back I guess!

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