I work at a friendly neighborhood grocery store. The last several company parties have been absolute bummers due to lack of organization and communication. Well our store manager recently about 2 weeks ago has promised us a taco truck party to show us appreciation for all the work we’ve been putting in this season.. every work meeting they’ve talked it up so we were getting excited, I brought my cute little family with me from a few towns over just to come, dressed up my kid in a matching outfit so we looked all cute together. We show up, no taco truck, none of the managers seemed to know why either.
My manager has asked me to cook every single company event without appropriate compensation, I recently decided I would no longer be willing to because of shit like this as it is, she gets a certain amount $$$ every year to do stuff like this for us. When she has us cook she gets to mark everything off as spoils in the system ( we have a decent donation program for spoils and shares) so she can write it off for taxes with the company, she does this to avoid having to actually use the allowance she gets for functions for us, my guess is she keeps it generally.
I guess I was just hopeful for a company event I didn’t have to cook for everyone for, that I could actually be a part of.
I wish I could say I was even surprised.
I hope she gets caught embezzling one day so we can watch her escorted out in cuffs.
I also wish us working class retail folks could get a bit more than the tiny pay we get that can’t even hope to ever match inflation.
I used to love my job, this store manager is the worst person to work with. Queen of gaslighting with a smile on her face the whole time.