I just walked out of work yesterday at a coffee restaurantand yelled I QUIT!!! The people I worked for are corrupt listen to this:
1. I worked for minimum wage, got two fifteen minute breaks out of a whole 8 hour shift that weren't paid for, and i had no say as to when i could take them.
2. I got treated like i couldn't do parts of my job properly, i was always put in the dish pit, or running out food orders, one of the managers would always tell me to stay off the cash register, even when there was somebody there waiting to order something. But there was nothing wrong with the way I handled that part of the job, in fact I smiled more at customers and had a better attitude when interacting with customers than that prick i work under.
3. Often at times i would have to run around like a chicken being told to do three things at once by different people, and I would have to go as much as five hours without so much as a five minute smoke break. The place was often understaffed and I would get bitched at for not doing my tasks at light speed.
4. They started giving me 38 hours a week, but now i get less than 25 hours.
5. On monday a girl came down with a bad flu while working and was not allowed to leave until she found somebody to fill her shift, which was me, and had to keep working until i got there. It was obvious to customers she had some kind of virus, and she was throwing up in the washroom.
6. The owner is a big fucking cheapskate despite the fact that the franchise he runs is quite successful. AFTER i got the job I was told to go through this government sponsored program that helps young people find full time work, so he could get a two dollar an hour wage subsidy. Yesterday he made me sign this thing saying how many hours I worked for the program, and it basically lied about how many hours I worked. Fraud.
7. Theres a big jar that collects tip money from customers beside one of the three cash registers. I never got a share of tips, and I was also accused of pocketing tips collected from tables a week after I started working there. This one supervisor told me that the tips are what pay for our Christmas parties. Theres plenty of tip money for one month for that Christmas party. A couple weeks ago I started pocketing tips anyways, and not very many at that. Had to make sure the cameras were not watching me.
8. If I was scheduled to work until a certain time but they needed me longer, I had no choice than to stay. Even if it meant working until late at night when i couldn't find a ride home and had to spend my hard earned money on a cab, that i would have to wait half an hour for.
It sucks that right now I don't have a job, but at least i can respect myself enough not to work for those assholes at Williams Coffee Pub in Burlington Ontario, at the Power Center on North Service Road.
[This message has been edited by methyl-head (edited 19 January 2000).]
