So tired of this “you need to be here 15-30 min before your shift” crap.
Pretty much every job I’ve ever had expects me to be at work 15-30 min before I’m being paid.
If I work 5 days a week, and show up 15 min early every shift without pay. By the end of the week they’ve gotten 1:15 of work out of me unpaid.
Multiply that by the 52 weeks that are in a year, that adds up to nearly 60 hours of unpaid work. The equivalent of almost a full pay check.
If it’s 30 minutes early thats 78 hours of work unpaid.
That’s over $1,000 at my province’s current minimum wage.
I’m so tired of it. Yeah I get it the location opens for 6. But then my schedule/ pay should start at 5:45-5:30. Not 6. Because you expect the location to be fully opened and functioning at 6.
I’m not losing out on 60-78 hours of pay a year because you’re cheap. Ugh. But I have to or I’m unemployed.
Just so tired of it.
Edit: just want to be clear I’ve never been one to fly into work last minute. My issue is with my employer fully expecting me to work 15-30 minutes unpaid each and every shift. I do already naturally arrive 10-15 minutes early for my own convenience. But when the boss schedules you for 6, expects you there at 5:30. I now have to arrive at 5:15 to be on time for work by my own standards and my boss’s.