The place I work spends our tips for us instead of giving them directly to us. We have a tip jar next to the checkouts, supervisors and managers use this money for whatever reason they want but we cannot take even a penny for ourselves. Last week a supervisor took £9 out of the tips to balance her cash drawer. Now our manager wants to use them for monthly team events, which we get no say in and if we don’t want to or cannot go to the event then we still don’t get our share.
I’m getting so tired of this, we get paid minimum wage and it feels like without a union nothing will change either.