I work for a popular pharmacy retail chain. My store manager makes the time unbearable. Her management style is essentially how she bullied people during her school years. Which she loves to brag about to IDK assert dominance? My store is currently dozens of resets behind, at least three trucks behind AND a revolving door of employees. I gave it all I could. I spoke to fellow employees to gather their thoughts of how they are treated. All of them are unhappy. I spoke to my district manager but of course nothing was done. My last and final straw was when I found out new hires are making $3 more than me an hour. Naturally, I confronted my manager and told my fellow employees. I have in an email my manager stating she asked me not to discuss pay. (illegal) She also blatantly made fun of my mental health issues.…
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Escaping natural foods retail
Just quit as a grocery manager for Sprouts Farmers Market for the second time! I will never go back to retail especially food retail. I quit a few years ago mostly due to low pay and understaffing. Corporate at the time didn't help. They had more corporate personnel than store people. Loved the people I worked with, even the GM and I ( we started off pretty rocky) realized we were taking out our stresses from corporate on each other and built a good working relationship. But about a year ago a business venture fell through and I found myself returning to my old position. Most of the people I knew had moved on including the GM. But a few stayed. With COVID I was able to negotiate a good salary and got assurances in writing that my department would be fully staffed to the best of the GM's abilities.…
By becoming aware of your exploitation you have begun to understand yourselves which is good. However, to beat an enemy you also need to understand him first and that he has many ways to mess with you, some less obvious than others. Inflation is one of these ways, as it is to some extent a tax for the poor. So time to get financially literate. You may think it is “corporate greed” that is the cause of inflation (and yes, it surely plays a role to speed it up at the moment), some may see also other reasons (there are many reasons that have an effect on it). However what is the “root cause” that set things in motion some time ago (as things do happen for reasons)? I am here to cast a light on this issue, as it is often forgotten because humans are bad at capturing long…
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Retail is so fucked up these days.
5 months ago I left my old retail job for a number of reasons. Crappy managers who constantly changed the goalposts on their most dedicated employees, played clear favorites, and punished us for them not having enough staff. Was there 3 years and every time I looked to move up one rung on the ladder, the goalposts were moved back. The last time I was literally told “You need to be one of the top 3 performers in metrics to be considered.” -.- I worked PART TIME. How tf was I supposed to compete with people who had been there far longer and had far more hours than I did?? What’s interesting is a few days before I left I was still in the store group message and saw the store manager say “As you all know November-December is the holiday season and our busiest time of the year. As…
26 F CA I work at a spray tanning company. I’ve been here now for 6 months. It’s a terrible work environment. My boss takes out my breaks when I know I’m entitled to them legally – I’ve worked OT several times and never been paid a time and a half, and she’s never let me use PTO. She made me (and I get I still chose to do this) sign a contract saying she would take about $500 out of my last paycheck if I left before the year was up. Now I’m leaving and I’m curious if there’s a way out of this? I read in CA it’s illegal to not pay your employees for training – so essentially this would be her not paying me. Is that right? Or is there something I’m missing? Also looking for the best way to end this as I need to…
And the reward was absolutely nothing. For context, I'm a baker at a large chain restaurant. My boss called me on my shift to tell me about a contest all the stores have where they'll submit pictures of the product to corporate and they pick out the best looking ones that closest meet corporate standards. My boss submitted my work and I was told it was the best out of all the other stores and I made my store look good! “But there's no prize except, I guess, pride” no raise, no bonus, but hey! I'm happy to be acknowledged! I can pay my bills with pride, right? Not as bad as some other stories on here, just mildly infuriating.
In the long ago when I still worked in retail, my store had a pot luck for the team. One manager brought chili in a crock pot. Some was left over so into the break room fridge it went. The chili is a week old. It is still in the fridge. All the other potluck leftovers have sensibly gone home. The chili is three weeks old. Someone suggests the manager might remove the crockpot and take the chili home for disposal. The manager waves this off. Of course he will get to it. The chili is now two months old. The smell has taken over the break room fridge. It infects anything we place inside, which since there are no other options, includes employee lunches. I eat take out when I am able but that isn’t always economically feasible. The chili is now six months old. The manager says he…
