Antiwork

By the time I graduated college, I was more confused than when I was in high school.

I'm finally quitting my shitty fast food job. The managers don't know how to run the restaurant without yelling at everyone. The customers are exceptionally entitled even for fast food. I get paid 13.50 + 2.85 in tips (it's a tip pool situation), aka around $16.35/hr. Which isn't bad, but the cost of living in my state is so incredibly high that if I weren't a high school student living at home, I would be screwed. A lot of fast food restaurants around me pay more before tips anyways. On top of all that, I hate how company policy is that we have to find coverage, instead of the people who, ya know, literally do scheduling as their job. I made a post about it before and how it stressed me out so much before my prom. I hate sounding like I'm complaining,but I'm just sick of this.

There’s so much bullshit about this job that I could describe in detail but I don’t have the energy. It’s so hard to put energy towards job hunting when your current job takes all the energy you have and more, but looks like I’ll need to.

I have a few jobs; none are full-time, but altogether I work six days a week, this week seven because I was asked to put in an extra day that ended up on the time clock as twelve hours and thirty minutes. Today is one of my usually scheduled shift days, and I…couldn't do it. I couldn't do it. I could not work seven days and look down the barrel at another six, call it weakness or whatever you like, but I could not do it. I called off sick. I have a coworker who I'm very fond of. I'm going to call them Favorite Coworker. They're older, they're in their sixties, and definitely still very spry but I know they did not want to work today specifically because they had also put in a six-day week and they said over and over again that they were trying not to…

Employees have a clear legal right to talk about wages, yet I think every employment contract/employee handbook I've ever seen prohibits it. Obviously it's completely unenforceable, but how is it the norm for companies to have blatantly illegal rules like this?

The manager/owner of this franchise I work at has been holding cash tips and using them for “work parties” every two months instead of paying them out to us and Im not sure what to do. We get all of our online tips but we’ve never gotten our cash tips and the only use I’ve seen for them is some party every 2 months with no food and the cost of the party is no where NEAR how much we make in tips. I’m not sure if he’s just being lazy or putting it off but myself and my coworkers have never seen a cent of them. Now that I’ve covered everything I’m not sure what to do with this? Someone I talked to said I should call corporate and make a complaint which sounds like a good idea.