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I started a job June 13 as an assistant manager at a dispensary (Ontario) I’ve worked in the industry roughly past 3 years so I know a thing, or 2.
My boss/owner (no store manager) on the other hand doesn’t know basic answers to consumer questions, does he even really smoke, talked to him about terpenes/cannabinoids and he told me no one cared about those things and “your here to sell them what they want,quick”
Context when I got hired, I quit a fulltime job doing the exact same thing for a different dispensary, worked there for over 2 years and was quite miserable due to workload the last few months working at that company.
Now couple weeks in I already didn’t like it but I kept telling myself it was the change I didn’t like as I’m not very adaptable person. Now I feel like I should of trusted my gut.
I was told that I NEED a reliable car to drive large amounts over of cannabis from store to store doing transfers. I asked about a company car/compensation if I will be using my own and I was told that “that’s part of my job”
Found out the woman who runs his other location is his sister in law, he’s hired other family members in the past and recently hired assistant manager who got hired week before me, let’s call him Steve, Steve’s best friend/sister I don’t know they have weird flirty dynamic
I unfortunately got covid and messaged on July 17th, calling in for july 18,19,20 saying I would let him know when im better but I should be good for the 21st (busy day & I was leading the shift) I mentioned being able to get test centre results, doctor note if needed,which he denied wanting.
proceeded to call me 4 times on the 19th from 11:30am – 1pm and then text me at 2:40pm which I responded how I’ve been asleep, am still covid positive and am resting so I will be able to work my full shift 21st
Worked my shift on the 21st and my boss barely spoke to me and the other staff all spoke another language with one another.
Following Monday I got called into work early , my boss came into work,went to his office and got another staff member to call me in
Told me
– I was unreliable for being sick
– how I need to be answering him & other staff regardless where I am or what I’m doing
– said he was gonna fire me but felt bad &
– he learned a valuable lesson as he will never be hiring someone from another company
-asked me if I think I’m fit for the position
I was in a state of shock, I typically am one to stand up for myself but as a new employee and having my job in a way threatened I didnt really know what to say, other than mention my past experience.
Following Thursday
I was instructed to pick up a transfer at another location and bring it back to the one I work at, which I did & I left for the day, Friday I get called in early & my boss met me at the time clock and asked where one of the boxes where from the transfer yesterday
I told him how I brought everything in the store, nothing fell out of the boxes & I never unpacked the boxes
I still had my lunch pale and keys in my hand and he said let’s go to your car, I put my lunch down and we went to my car where he proceeded to ask me to move stuff in my back seat around and even asked to look in my truck (it’s full of old rodent toys/cage from my dead pet) I thought it was incredibly inappropriate as all the staff working that day knew what was going on & how I was getting accused.
We went back in the store & pulled me into the office and called the woman who runs other location (his sister in law) and puts her on speakerphone where she’s saying she has camera footage of me putting everything into my car, she asked my boss if he checked his camera and he said no. He found the box maybe 10 minutes afterward and was laughing like “I knew you didn’t take anything” and left work shortly after.
Sooo my boss searched my car while no proof or real knowledge that I had stole.
No idea what to do or where to go from here, I’ve talked to my boss once since them and he’s been on vacation from Aug 3-12
TLDR: boss is an idiot who hires family and other idiots, threatens my job cause I was sick & accuses me of stealing product, searches my car without any proof