Antiwork

I'm currently in an apprenticeship, and my boss and I are the only staff in this shop. Frequently, she'll leave me alone to hold the shop, giving herself big weekends and smaller work days in general. It's obviously illegal since I don't have a diploma, if any official found out, they'd close the place up. When there is no real work to be done, she wants me to call old (~5 years) customers and essentially remind them that we exist. It's kind of mind numbing to do, and I'm not excited about this part of the job, so I drag my feet doing it. Lately, she's been breathing down my neck, constantly nagging me about how I don't call fast enough, how I don't speak loud enough, and just whatever other thing she could complain about. When she's not here, she will watch the security cameras to check if I'm…

What would you do? I’m (M) considering wearing a skirt but I probably wont do it. Any other ideas? I just don’t want to be treated unfairly and I think it’s reasonable to wear shorts sometimes when it’s hot. Edit: I work in the office and also outdoors. After we spoke I went out into the sun for an hour to do my job. I was really hot even with the shorts. Why am I being singled out? I don’t know. I think the boss above the person who told me dislikes me. Other employees were wearing shorts, and we even talked about that as I was being told. And this boss said a higher boss mentioned to him I can’t wear shorts.

My boss decided to run the FOH pay as daily cash advances and kept telling every one who told him that wasn't right, he would double down and say yes it is, or well that's how the accountant set it up, or my favorite “Well thats how it was when I was at Chilis”. That was until I convinced some of the FOH to get a labor lawyer involved, oh boy and did they jump at the case. The new song and dance is “oh well, we found a problem and are trying to fix it” I walked out today after I watched him berate one of the servers about how he was right, and that “tips are owned by the restaurant, in Arkansas” (I called him out and said that is incorrect) and he doesn't have to give them out, and how if she “made over her wage was…

As I’m sitting here waiting out my 2 weeks, I realize I’ll never be able to tie up any of the loose ends that need to be done before I leave. The freezers/coolers are a disaster due to overordering and hoarding of old items, there’s no way to organize anything perishable just due to everything be so jam packed. The owner waits until the last two hours of the day to put together “emergency” orders she’s known about for a week. Our turnover rate is insane for all employees (stock clerks and kitchen workers). The good ones get scared off by abusive upper management and lack of benefits. I’ve been here for 5, almost 6 years, and it’s been the same 10-12 hour shifts 6 days a week. I’m not gonna do it anymore. I’m tired. I just want a cozy 9-5 where I don’t have to be a jack…

To elaborate, I work in a small restaurant where we accept tips and on more than one occasion, the manager counting the register has taken money from our tips to cover missing funds from the register. On one occasion it was 40$, on another it was over 100. They use the claim that we round off too much change when customers pay with cash. However, when rounding off it’s never more than a dollar at THE VERY MOST and if you compare that with how often customers actually pay with cash, that number seems extremely fraudulent. That glaring issue aside, is it even legal for them to take money from tips for something that they can’t even prove was the fault of the employees? I plan on quitting soon so I was gonna confront them with this. Thanks!

The title. I gave a couple of weeks notice before leaving. When I got my final pay it was short the listed vacation time I earned in my final weeks. Is that how it works (Canada) or should I be asking for that amount? Thanks for your response.