This isn’t your usual extreme grievance. But I had just came out of the ER the day before. It wasn’t an extreme thing that needed a week off of work, but I am now on meds and I was recommended to rest for 2 days because its the smart thing to do. However I had already missed 2 days and I barely make rent in 2-3wks.
Today I worked an 8 hour shift. Short-staffed the entire shift. There is only me and one manager running the entire store ( cash register, both sides of makeline, packline / aka mobile or bagging, dishes and prep table. ) while people are flooding in due to the rain and just normal lunch rush as we’re connected to a truck stop.
3/4ths through, The manager asks if I can stay an hour later, till 19:00. I say Yes.
Noone else ever makes it in. As I take my only 15 min break to take my meds at 18:10, I come back to all of my tips taken out of the cup. I ask, “where are my tips? I had $7.” And the manager goes oh well, the register was short. I say its not my register, and on days where you have 1 person working you’re bound to be short. But you don’t ever reach in and take my money. If I was short I wouldn’t have reached into your pocket and slipped me a $5, It would’ve come out my paycheck. She got louder and even the customers looked riddled that shed even argue openly with me over $7, that was rightfully mine. She told me that its just how it’ll be. So I said alright, ill take the next 2 days off then. Stretch that $7 for the next few days. I seriously still cant wrap my head around how she went from begging to stealing so quickly.
Moral of the story is never give anyone that isn’t a trusted fellow coworker an inch. Even people making maybe $2 or $3 more an hour that you see you as a labor percentage. Thanks for reading guys