When I worked for a local fast food drive in, we were required to show up 10-15 minutes before our shift started to “count in” our register trays. We would start getting paid only after we clocked in at the register. Even at 19 years old, I knew this was wrong. If counting in at the start of the shift was part of my work duties, then I should get paid for that time. Years after I quit, they changed the policy.
Management at the time was ridiculous. Silly rules about even the amount of ice in the cup. (Ice had to come to the top of the logo on the cup. No more, no less. We would be either cheating the customer or the company if we deviated. Unless, of course, the customer asked for more or less ice.) One Fall, my manager tried to get me to change my class schedule to accommodate the shift hours that HE needed me to be available. Upper management also sent out a notice that we were not permitted to ask for time off during the Christmas shopping season, which was understandable. But we were also told that we were not permitted to refuse extra shifts during this time, which I thought was crazy.
My ex briefly waited tables at a restaurant. One night I went there to pick her up at what was supposed to be the end of her shift, and found her rolling napkins and silverware. I thought maybe I got the time mixed up but she told me it was supposed to be the end of her shift, and worse yet, her manager made her clock out before starting the silverware. We were both young at the time and didn’t know this was illegal, but we discussed the job and realized that it wasn’t worth the money she was making, with the commute and the shifts she was getting where there weren’t a lot of customers (i.e. not a lot of tips), so she quit that night.
A few weeks later, I was doing some cleaning around the apartment, and I found an exit interview form they had given her. Where they asked the reason for leaving, she listed the manager by name, and that he was making her work off the clock. Lucky for him, she never sent it in. Not so lucky for him, I did. I stopped by there a couple of weeks later, and noticed that the board that had the names of the managers no longer had his name on it.
So he was supposed to be there earlier than 8:00 only to wait an extra half hour to get in because the keyholder won’t be there until then? Stuart do you have any idea how ridiculous you are?
the saying I have always been told is “if you’re early, you’re on time. If you’re on time, you’re late. If you’re late, you’re fired!”
granted, this is usually referring to something like “you’ve arrived 5 minutes before your shift, so you have that little bit of time to get yourself settled and put your game face on” and not this indentured servitude shit of “we expect you here x minutes before shift so that you can do additional work off the clock”. Fuck all the way off with that
When I worked for a local fast food drive in, we were required to show up 10-15 minutes before our shift started to “count in” our register trays. We would start getting paid only after we clocked in at the register. Even at 19 years old, I knew this was wrong. If counting in at the start of the shift was part of my work duties, then I should get paid for that time. Years after I quit, they changed the policy.
Management at the time was ridiculous. Silly rules about even the amount of ice in the cup. (Ice had to come to the top of the logo on the cup. No more, no less. We would be either cheating the customer or the company if we deviated. Unless, of course, the customer asked for more or less ice.) One Fall, my manager tried to get me to change my class schedule to accommodate the shift hours that HE needed me to be available. Upper management also sent out a notice that we were not permitted to ask for time off during the Christmas shopping season, which was understandable. But we were also told that we were not permitted to refuse extra shifts during this time, which I thought was crazy.
My ex briefly waited tables at a restaurant. One night I went there to pick her up at what was supposed to be the end of her shift, and found her rolling napkins and silverware. I thought maybe I got the time mixed up but she told me it was supposed to be the end of her shift, and worse yet, her manager made her clock out before starting the silverware. We were both young at the time and didn’t know this was illegal, but we discussed the job and realized that it wasn’t worth the money she was making, with the commute and the shifts she was getting where there weren’t a lot of customers (i.e. not a lot of tips), so she quit that night.
A few weeks later, I was doing some cleaning around the apartment, and I found an exit interview form they had given her. Where they asked the reason for leaving, she listed the manager by name, and that he was making her work off the clock. Lucky for him, she never sent it in. Not so lucky for him, I did. I stopped by there a couple of weeks later, and noticed that the board that had the names of the managers no longer had his name on it.
That parking lot looks awfully deserted. Maybe that whole mall is struggling.
The mall wouldn’t be open for another hour at least.
The regional manager does not have a spare set?! Or a master key?!
Hurry up & wait!
So he was supposed to be there earlier than 8:00 only to wait an extra half hour to get in because the keyholder won’t be there until then? Stuart do you have any idea how ridiculous you are?
And he wonders why they all quit with Grumbels went under.
15 min early is Taipan’s law.
the saying I have always been told is “if you’re early, you’re on time. If you’re on time, you’re late. If you’re late, you’re fired!”
granted, this is usually referring to something like “you’ve arrived 5 minutes before your shift, so you have that little bit of time to get yourself settled and put your game face on” and not this indentured servitude shit of “we expect you here x minutes before shift so that you can do additional work off the clock”. Fuck all the way off with that