Guess we're back here again. I've been going through the process of quitting my dead-end job at Wendy's because on top of being a dead-end job at Wendy's, it's also incredibly bad for my mental health. For a quick recap, I've been here for nearly 3 years, am a manager, woke up to the reality of the situation when my promised raise was denied, and posted before about upper management thinking 10.50 is the “best pay for the best people” and saying they would make customer reviews 'a priority in your life, starting today.” Oh, and a really stupid uniform policy where people would be sent home, then the ops leader would be written up, then the GM would be written up, just because someone wears a sweatshirt.
But last week, our new GM was having a talk with me to try and convince me to stay (an effort in futility, of course). But I decided to hear her out and see what she had to say. And damn, did she say some things. I'm officially a shift supervisor, but I'm treated as a breakfast manager for all intents and purposes. However, they also always have a shift supervisor with me on my opening shifts, so in effect, I'm more like a crew member deluxe. So for the entirety of this talk, our new GM treats me as if I don't have any kind of experience as a manager, despite knowing me for less than a month, and tells me that if I wanted to, I could get trained as a manager and start doing that.
I tell her that I'm already a manager, which lands on pretty much deaf ears. Here's where the crazy part to me begins. We eventually get down to the secondary issue: the pay. (For me, the fact that the job leaves me on the verge of a breakdown bimonthly makes any amount of pay too low.) As I mentioned before, when our old GM promoted me I was told that I would start at 12, and after a month would get an evaluation and get a raise to 13. I certainly met the criteria for the evaluation, so when I questioned what happened to the raise, I was told by our new GM that no such raise existed. When I tried to ask what kind of raise they would offer to try and keep me in this hell, she told me they put in a request for me to get a raise – to 12.50. Great joke, but I'm not laughing. I could actively make my overtime pay for doing Walmart night stock one city over. A little bit later in the conversation we hit upon gold – fools gold – apparently, the highest paid crew member in my division of Wendy's- Wenzak, with nearly 50 stores – they make 12.50. She's been here 10 years and she makes 12.50. I just can't fathom that concept. Soon after, I put an end to the discussion, because if this person genuinely believes someone who's been working here for 10 years deserves to be paid as much as I do, there's no point in further discussion.
Ah, but! There's no need to worry! She's gone a step farther and given us the most scuffed schedule I've seen in the past 3 years! I'm talking throwing people on positions they don't understand, not scheduling anybody for drive thru today during lunch (which is my job – I have a half shift, for who knows why – but I'll take it, it's really not my problem if they have to lay in the grave they dug for themselves) and even better, they have 2 of our problem children who are supposed to be doing the opens today. I say problem children because they're late 80% of the time and have to walk nearly an hour to work – which on a side note is insane but I don't have a car right now and thus I cannot pick them up as I usually do – and I say “supposed to” because they aren't here. So here we are, with our District Manager allegedly dropping in today and if those two aren't here, we're supposed to fire them. Which, in turn, means we have no openers for the rest of the week.
Ah, I'm so glad I only have to sit back and watch it all burn. If I had to stay even another week this would probably be stressing me out. Oh, yeah, speaking of me, she took 10 hours off my schedules and gave a 20 year old breaks. I'll absolutely take it, even if it's not really necessary. I'll take this new schedule that does work and work only on that schedule, just to show her how little she actually gets around here. I'm just gonna spend the time I have left here doing a catastrophic amount of trolling and trying to get people to realize there's nothing good that will come of them staying. Here's to hoping that you, reader, have a great day. I know I will.