I might not have a job anymore in the morning

fuck them...they dont deserve you

 

That seems like an incredibly petty thing to fire somebody over.

 

If its the type of company that looks for any little technicality to cut numbers, rather than performance reviews to shave off the bad ones, keep the good ones

Then best off in the long run to find greener pastures, otherwise it'll be another 6/12 months of loyal service only to get fired for something stupid

 

Or if her pay grade exceeds the minimum for the average manager; they might use this as an excuse to hire some fresh meat at bargain prices


Hotwater

 

x2

 

^Agreed.^

And just out of curiosity, is Texas an employment at will state? Because that may have some bearing on this. Either way, that would be a petty thing to be fired over, and yes, the (upper) management within the store should be to blame for the number not being posted. I would be calling OSHA.

 

Sounds like she's in Foodservice though, and industry where some companies get it right, but so many get it wrong


Replaced by a manager $2 less an hour, with no idea, that ends up costing them $20 more in refunds per shift and 10% less sales, bad business sense

Course they have to have a system in place that monitors all that stuff

But if you company is fucked, your company is fucked

 

She is in food service, she is a shift manager for Dairy Queen.

 

My experience is that while laws are made to sound like they protect individuals they do more to protect businesses. For instance, around here, the case would have to be pretty blatant for unjust termination for them to even give it a second look. The law protects the businesses' rights to make personnel decisions for any reason- including no reason... so unless you have a racial discrimination or sexual harassment case you'd be lucky to be treated politely in trying to pursue action. You'd have to prove the case as well.

Where I've worked over the past eight years OSHA has been called a couple times- they do not do surprise safety audits, they contact the target of the complaint, state who made the complaint and the nature of it... and give advice as how to clean things up in advance of a visit- the date of which is given. They only inspect pursuant to the complaints and if the business heeds the instructions in the original call they are virtually guaranteed to avoid any fines. Stronger action would only take place in the event of a death or serious injury.

That has been my observation.

 

which is?

 

OP whats your job?

 

Which I dont think is close to the market leader, so company is probably fucked

 

I worked an 8 and a half hour day for free, but I haven't reported them for fear of them firing me (that's how it works, you report them for breaking the law and they will make up something to fire you over).

We have a 15 year old who works for us who didn't get breaks for the first 6 months of her employment (most of which she was 14 years old during), they also let that 15 year old work with the fryers which is against labor laws.

Instead of punishing people through company policy procedures (a write up for the first 3 offenses for the same thing, then termination) they just cut your hours and tell others you are being punished, but not you (yeah, I'm dealing with that BS right now, too).

They're already in trouble because they wrongfully fired an entire family from there a little over a year ago.

They expect us to take our deposits to the bank at night, sometimes after midnight, and most of the management is female, so that is EXTREMELY dangerous. When that bank closes in December, they expect us to drive 15 miles at night to drop it off in an unfamiliar town.

Now I'm not sure all of this is illegal, I just found out last night that law does not require businesses to even give unpaid breaks to their employees who are over the age of 18, which I think is FUCKED up. I work nonstop for more than 8 hours oftentimes, while the smokers go out and spend 20 minutes at a time talking in the shed several times a shift.

And the problem with the blame being shifted to the upper management is our store really has no upper management. We lost our manager awhile back and the asst. has been the acting manager. However, it is almost noon now and I have yet to receive a phone call from them. The termination e-mails go out first thing in the morning, so I'm fairly certain I'd have heard something by now. I followed the instructions on the paperwork, I really don't see how they would have grounds to fire me. Like I said, I'm pretty sure that bitchy little team leader was just running her mouth like she always does. I don't think my asst. was even in the store yesterday.

 

I'd say you're right VG.

 

Our company is falling apart, from what I've heard through the grapevines and from what I've seen. We don't even have rugs in front of the door anymore because they were too cheap to keep paying the company to rent them. And my asst. manager told me not long ago that they were discussing how I made "too much" in comparison to the other team leaders in the area. I just really hope that whatever happens, I can hold on to that job until January when I can start looking for employment for something other than holiday work.

 

I am sorry about that hunny.

I worked at jack in the shit but no one got hurt when i was there so i dont know what to tell you except good luck.'
And i don't ever remember getting breaks.. only a lunch.

I work at goodwill now and fulltime is supposed to have 15 minute breaks and an hour lunch but we only get two fives and a 30 minute lunch and this is all in texas..


Some advice to you would be to start researching your rights.

 

what the hell's a lunch break?

 

Yeah, we don't even get lunch.

 

At one of the jobs I had this year, I would only get a one hour lunch break during a 10-12 hour shift. We didn't get any other breaks. That wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't 115 degrees(literally) inside the building at all times. lol

 

from what I remember here (Ive been self employed for quite a while) it used to be we got a paid 15 minute break every 2 hours and a half hour unpaid lunch

so wed start at 8am and first break was at 10am then lunch at 1215 and another break at 230 and wed be done at 430 but get paid for 8 hours because lunch was not included