Ugh. I’m mostly using this as a method to vent, since I feel so shitty about the situation. I love my job, I love my coworkers, and I love being able to be surrounded by music all day and actually be doing something I care about… I have been working at this record store for almost two years now, and it started off as a dream come true. I had left my last job because they were overbooking me and conflicting with my university schedule, and denied my days off that I needed for tests and things.. So, when my current boss told me that they were really lenient about hours, it was a relief! Of course, I took a huge pay cut from the last job to this job (I was making 15 an hour and working around 25 hours a week.. my current job I make 11.50 an hour and only work 16 hours a week).
Things really started to become fucked up around this fall.. I had a second job, and requested Fridays off and just to have Saturday’s and Sunday’s so I could teach at a school. My boss was super cool about it.. When I left the school, I kept the Fridays as my only off day (since I also am a full-time Uni student ), but quickly realized I wouldn’t be able to afford really anything with what I was making, so I requested Fridays and another day of the week. He told me that we were over staffed for such a small store, and that I wouldn’t be able to take more hours. I was upset, but stuck it out because I really do love this job, and figured I could find another partirme somewhere to do along side it.. spoiler alert: I was never able to find one that worked with both my school and current schedule.. I again asked my boss for more hours and he said no again. But then a month later, we were hiring out of the blue.. We hired this one guy and He’s been taking Friday shifts and weekday shifts… literally the same days I asked if I could take and my boss said no. New guy is working 20-22 hours a week, and when I confronted my boss through messages (he always uses messages for scheduling), he ignored my message asking for more hours AGAIN, and instead, posted to our group chat the next three weeks schedule and didn’t make any change to my my hours.. I feel so dejected. I feel like a freaking doormat… and I am currently looking for new jobs, but I can’t help but feel like I would be so happy if I could just get one more day at my current job. Anyways, just came here to vent and get it out of my system. I’m just so sad.. it feels like he is trying to weasel me out without actually firing me, and it just makes me feel so icky since my boss preaches how he cares about all of us like his own kids, but when I tell him the financial situation I am in, and how he could help me with it by just giving me an extra day to work, he turns me down or ignores me 🙁