Today, I'm a cashier in a grocery store. The visiting regional manager tore me a new one for being lazy. His reason? After working a double shift with no break, I decided to sit down for a minute when things got slow. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I watched a manager and a co-worker sit underneath a table in our store all day as I got yelled at for not working hard enough. I was the only one actually working. FML
Today, I was at work, stocking shelves. A customer got mad because I was in the way of her "shopping time" and knocked down all the work I had done. FML
Today, I went to my retail job to buy some clothing. As soon as I walked through the doors, my manager yelled at me for not being in appropriate work clothes. I tried to explain that I was off the clock but he was having none of it. I got written up. FML
Today, while working at my job at a lumber/hardware store, my coworker told me he was taking an hour break instead of the usual half-hour. Not only did he leave me with a store packed with customers on Customer Appreciation Day, but he never came back until closing time. FML
Today, I went shopping on my only day off. The only aisle open was self-checkout. I'm a cashier. FML
Today, I got a badly-needed job at a local discount store. After being hired, I found out I'm to help with the soon-to-begin store closing sale, and I'll be jobless again after 3 months. FML
Today, I got yelled at for providing horrible customer service, in a store I don't even work for. FML
Today, I was at work as a grocery store cashier. I felt a hand slap my ass. Turning around I saw an old man winking at me and I screamed. When my manager came to deal with the problem she didn't believe me and gave the man a $25 gift card for "the trouble" I caused. FML
Today, I started working my crappy, minimum-wage retail job at a local electronics store. An hour into my shift, my boss sent me to scrub out a discount bin, after some drunk cunt in his teens staggered into the place yelling, and puked his guts into it. What a life. FML
Today, at my new job, a coworker offered to help me mop the floors since she wasn't busy. I ended up getting written up by my boss for supposedly being too lazy and making other people finish my work. FML
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unpossible 26
In your province, OP, it is against the Employment Standards Act for your employer to not provide you a half hour break for each period of work in excess of 5 hours, unless your union has agreed to something else, or there was an emergency in your workplace. Your regional manager made a judgment based on a snapshot of your department. Yes, in a retail environment it looks awful to have employees sitting around doing nothing. Your RM probably also assumed that your management team obeys the law. You should inform your RM that they don't.
kerrygirl 13
today you're a cashier....what will you be tomorrow?!
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Comments (75)
Murdock7x4 0
If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean.
meatt006 0
OK, let's see how well you do after a double with no break.
kmgentil 0
Aww man that must suck but, does your foot hurt??
EveryDayJackAss 0
damn, that's some serious BULLSHIT, maybe you should tear his balls off for compensation
MinaXmassacre 0
Shh! I hear a lawsuit...
abilicious 0
breaks arent a right in the US, a lunch during an 8hr shift is but breaks are at the employers decision. but fyl ive had that happen and i pointed out that id been there 10hrs already and he just shut up and walked away, douche didnt even say sorry.
iamtheplatypus 0
cut the ******
martic835 2
I used to be a cashier. Yuck.
The_Great_Zucchi 15
The "arsehole" style of management. Always a grand way to get the best out of your people...
youthink_fml 0
I doubt it. Managers are used to seeing people take a break. You're probably always "on break".
DJ_Chutfield 4
You do realize that's illegal, right? You deserve a half hour break every 8 hours and an extra 15 minute break if you're working a double, at least in Ontario. I would've yelled right back and marched out. **** that shit, no shitty job is worth that kinda grief.