I work at a university library, where we are short two librarians already. I do a librarian’s job for the minimum wage as a student worker, and this summer I was working 35 hours or so a week.
HR found out about this, and it seems they had a “little oversight” about me working this summer at all!
Instead of just firing me, they reduced my hours drastically. I can now only work a max of 20 hours a week, but as of right now I’m only scheduled for 10.
I’m livid. Instead of full on letting me me go, now I have no clue if I qualify for unemployment. I can’t live off of 10 hours a week’s pay. This way, they also just reduced my hours immediately rather than having to give me notice.
My bosses are so upset, and fighting their hardest to come to a better arrangement, since I had planned to move on after August anyhow. But this is just a massive kick in the teeth.