im not even sure where to really post this, but im assuming this works..
my friends mom posted about a full time position at a department store and i asked her about it and she said to come in for an interview.
the day of, she messaged me saying if we hire you can you start today and i said sure.
so i get there and work a 12-6. i wasn’t interviewed, i just filled a bit of paper work out and got to work. this felt odd but i was hey whatever an easy job.
now my friends mom wasn’t the manager, this store fell to shit after opening and everyone either quit or was fired and the few who stayed worked their asses off to get it on track, including her. she told me she had been there everyday for 13 hours trying to get the store running. so they didn’t even have a manager when i was hired.
i worked another 3 shifts after this and had that weekend off. come to check the schedule and i wasn’t even in the following week until friday and the weekend, when i wanted full time and didn’t want weekends. i thought this was just a starting out thing so i was like meh whatever i’ll get more shifts eventually. i come back and the following week i’m in only on the weekend again. and they cut my shift for that day from a 9-5 to a 9-2. the day i came back to work for the first weekend of shifts was a friday and the new manager had been in all week but i hadn’t met her yet. so i’m looking at the schedule pretty pissed because gas prices are ridiculous right now, 2 shifts a week is barely enough to cover the price of gas.
so she comes over and it’s passed 9 which is the start of my shift but i’m too annoyed over the schedule so i didn’t go up yet i was just staring at it all upset. she comes over and says
“i need you up front now it’s past 9”
i responded “are you the new manager?”
“yes”
“and you’re who did up this schedule”
“yes”
“well i have no shifts in the week? and only weekend shifts? i live 20 mins away and coming out here isn’t worth it for 2 shifts”
“yeah there just isn’t really any hours to give right now”
mind you that they were BEGGING for workers to come in because they were desperately low on staff.
so i go up to cash and im doing my normal type of day there, ringing people in, sweeping, checking out the areas around cash seeing if there’s any mess or shelves to be organized. i unpacked stock in the decor section and basically redid a whole display because it was very unorganized. this took quite a bit and by the time i was finished in that area the new manager and this other girl i honestly never even knew what her position was there but she seemed to be in charge of a lot so maybe assistant manager idk? but anyways i was told i could take my 15, but this younger girl (prob few years older than me so like maybe 25 or so) is giggling to herself saying how bad the washrooms are and told me to clean them after i’m done my 15 and i was like yeah sure whatever. i go in there and scrub their toilets. and they were bad. i swear they hadn’t clean them since the store opened. the garbages for tampons were full without a bag even in there so to be clean they would have had to be taken out by hand. i was thinking to myself i could be doing this same shit for $40 an hour somewhere else but whatever. (i was getting paid $12 which is slightly over minimum wage) so i cleaned up the washrooms and get back to work. i started hanging some shirts on racks and doing whatever else i could find to do. nothing super crazy but i was definitely not standing around.
so since my shift was cut short i was pretty much done for the day and i had about 10 mins left and this same young girl came over and told me to take allll the clothes from the top racks down and replace them and i would be doing that for the next few days as my job when i had time. so i was like okay i don’t mind but i mean i’m not gonna get a lot done rn so weird you’d ask me right now lol. (i didn’t say that but was thinking it)
10 mins later i’m off and im told i need to be talked to by the new manager she brings me aside and says they’re letting me go and i was
like
“could i get a reason for that”
“we’re just letting you go”
“yeah but there has to be a reason? is it the hours thing or am i not doing my job?”
she tells me i’m not doing my job.
i asked for a better reason and she can’t give me an answer because well this is the first time she’s ever met me. how would she know if i’m doing my job lol. (also i watched both of them leave the store about 4 times in the 5 hours i was there and they’d come back with coffees. how would you know what i’m doing if you’re always going on coffee runs?)
she calls the younger girl to come into the room and basically she tells me i’m not doing my job and how i shouldn’t have to be told what to do i should just do it (which i have?) and i tell her i was working on the shoe section last week and about 20 mins later everyone is bringing in stock and completely redoing that area. so doing that was for nothing. how am i supposed to know what should and shouldn’t be done?
after some back and forth over that she basically says we’re done here and i leave.
so flash back to my second or third shift this woman comes in and has an interview. they tell her come back at 2:30 for it. she comes back at 2 and argues it was at 2. i was standing there like i clearly heard them say 2:30 about 3 times but okay whatever. so they hire her. whatever.
so after receiving the schedule for that first weekend i was working where i was literally off on the previous friday and didn’t come back for another week, my friends mom and i were on lunch and she saw my hours and said to me “wow they have you off for that long?!” and i was like i know. and she was like they just hired that girl i’m gonna make sure they give you the hours and not her because you were here first that isn’t fair. then she goes on to say if i keep working hard i could potentially become keyholder at some point but i have to keep working and prove to them im capable.
so after being fired this new girl who was hired, my moms friend knew her and apparently she told her that she became keyholder and was given full time. now this woman has known to be crazy, sketchy and a thief. so honestly at this point i hope she fucks them over.
now today it’s been a few days since i was fired and i was just told by my friend that her mom was just fired. after working 13 hour days getting that store up and running and working her ass off they let her go. i was beyond pissed over the washroom thing. they only did that because they knew they were about to fire me so they made me clean their gross ass toilets before i left. obviously i wouldn’t have if i knew they were letting me go. now i wish i would have went back and clogged their shit. so now i can’t imagine how my friends mom feels. she basically was the manager without the actual title or pay and now they just say yeah thanks for getting us started see ya.
that’s basically the end of it all but i’m just completely shocked by it all and i don’t understand their logic here. my friends mom was a great worker and honestly i was too. they let us go for a crazy bitch who will probably end up robbing them. oh well. i hope she does.