Apologies, posting via my phone.
One of my old jobs from years ago made us sign a code of conduct that we had to adhere to.
My VM was a saving grace in many ways and I didn’t stick around long after she left, but the restaurant manager was a prick.
Recently rereading the old CoC while organising my files, I stumbled on a section that had me going through old messages and contemplating hitting up fairwork. I’m pretty sure I got screwed on my pay as well.
This man was happy to just pretend workers rights didn’t exist and if I had the attitude I do now, I’d have called him on his bs.
One incident that broke the CoC, that I recalled upon reading it, was a night I had fucked my ankle on shift.
I was limping so badly and I stopped to sit out the back for hot minute to put ice on it. This man came and found me to ask wtf was going on, and I was like “my ankle is fucked and I need to strap it or go home”
“We're busy OP, if I send you home, I won't have anyone to help with close”
(Really should have told him to go fuck himself but second year of hospo and was too young and dumb to not to push back)
“Well I need to go to the pharmacy before they close to get an ankle strap”
“It's so busy right now. Can it wait?”
“I can barely walk on it.”
“Why didn't you grab one on break earlier?”
“Because I didn't know I was going to fuck my ankle after my break?”
(What kind of fucking question is that?)
“So you can work with a strap? You'll close if I let you go?”
“Yes”
“Fine, but you better run, because I shouldn't even be letting you sit here on the clock”
I barely made it to the pharmacy (the guy was closing up and let me in because I had run on it, which had me crying), got a strap a size too big because they had run out of small and went back to work.
The CoC y'all:
Protocol more or less states if a staff member is injured on shift, theyre to notify management and then to be clocked off and sent home or go to the hospital, until fit to work.
He told me at the end of shift that he can't afford to find a cover for my next shift so I better be good to work by then.
I wore that strap for 2 weeks.
One of the joyous messages I found later was being rostered for a shift I couldn’t do (and it was known). He had changed the roster after I had seen the first copy.
I messaged my vm seeing the edited version, who told me he’s in charge of rosters now. I messaged him and I get the “you have to find your own cover” bs.
So I message vm again and she’s pissed—so she tears him a new one via message and says it’s his job to organise the cover, not mine. (She sent screenies and I was like bless queen) He wasn’t happy about it and made sure I knew it on shift.
There’s more shit I could say but that’s another post for another day.