Honestly this was pretty difficult to confront because it wasn’t entirely my managers fault but mostly the owners.
Context: I work at MacDonalds as a casual kitchen crew and work night shifts (the shift was on a Saturday). Basically we get split roles such as “Production – back area” and “maintenance”. I was assigned production – back area and on this day I had two other kitchen crew with me.
I went about my day and one of the crew members was let’s say under the influence. Personally I have no problem with how people work or how they choose to come into work, I only have a problem when that forces me to pick up the slack because of their laziness/incompetence or forces me to do jobs that aren’t mine.
He was a bit slow so he went and did maintenance as I was told and I stayed in the kitchen with the other guy helping him to orders while doing all the cleaning. Typically I would only clean and he would hold line but because it was a Saturday night it was understandably busy and it’s my job to help on line when needed. No problem there but I had to do stainless cleaning, sweep the floors, mop, and pack up wash up all alone.
The person under the influence had been gone for 2-3 hours at this point to do maintenance (changing the bins, cleaning the tables, and mop). I find out on my break when sitting in the dining area that not a single bin was changed, tables had puddles of drinks on them, and the floor was filthy.
My friend jokingly takes a video and shows the manager, I think nothing of it. Not my job, not my problem. He comes back about to leave but gives me a heads up that the manager said she would just get me to do it. I laughed and said no way and he was on my side. I was the only kitchen crew at this point of the night.
Fast forward to once I’ve done all my jobs. The manager comes to check up on my progress and says that if I’m free I should go break the boxes at the dumpster (a job I’m assigned) and if I could do maintenance. I said I would do dumpster now but won’t do maintenance since that’s not my job and the other guy should have done it properly. She then proceeded to say that he wasn’t even assigned maintenance, no one was that night! I said I’m not doing two jobs and went out to do boxes while also running inside to do orders when needed.
Almost done with dumpster, the manager comes back out to speak with me. She says she did all the bins and only needs me to clean the bathroom. I said I don’t mind doing the second job if I get paid for doing it. She gets mad and says they are already paying means hat she is my manager and she is giving me a job to do. I reply telling her I’m doing dumpsters as you told me because that’s a job I’m assigned but I’m not going to do jobs that aren’t mine unless they are willing to pay me for it. She said if I won’t do it then that’s that and that was the end of it.
Some extra information: we have no lack of employees and the owner has been trying to cut back on adult workers because we cost more then child workers. Unlucky for him you have to be an adult to work at night so he’s just been giving us less shifts. There was no reason they couldn’t keep my coworker (the sober one) back to do the job but they blatantly said they didn’t want to given a ten minute break and because the owner wouldn’t be happy. I could ramble about the owner all day but this has gotten way too long.
Just wanted to get this off my chest and wanted to ask if I did the right thing?