I’m asking for advice so that I don’t shoot myself in the foot while also standing up for myself
Long story short I’m searching for an engineering job. but a friend referred me to a job that I could work in the meantime. Without giving too much details of the workplace it’s a 24/7 operation job with about 30sites in the city. In order to work at a site you need to be orientated for that site.
A lot of my coworkers have noticed that the individuals with the most amount of shifts and the best shifts are all close friends of the operations manager and they were all brought from out of town. People that went to highschool or played professional sports together.
Whenever I ask said manager for more shifts or orientations he’s always stalling and saying “he’ll keep me in the loop” I just found out that one of his friends flew in recently and he immediately gave him more shifts than I have who has been here for 3months and others who have been here for a year. I’ve repeatedly asked him and now it seems that I’m getting desperate.
You may ask why do I want more shifts here. Turns out that with the amount of back to back shifts including shifts where you get paid to sleep the whole night and all they require is your presence it is a very lucrative gig. And I want to maximize my earning potential
Is there anything that can be done about the ops manager and report him for his favouritism and unprofessionalism. Also keep in mind that the shifts I work here/would what to work here would also fit in with a simultaneous shift if I do get a engineering role as a first job.
I’ve never seen such blatant favouritism and nepotism where a person in power is bringing in his friends from out of town is using his powers as the manager responsible for scheduling to bring an army of friends in while neglecting everyone else. His last message to me was “ For sure I’ll see what I can do man. Keep up the great work ”
His behaviour is giving me anxiety because it’s very discouraging to be overlooked and to be made to have to beg to get the bare minimum