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
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, 30 minutes before I was supposed to quit work at 6pm, my boss showed up. After telling him how the day went, he asked why I was still there. Apparently, for the holiday, we close early. 4 hours earlier. FML
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
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, and like every day, after I'd just had finished serving a customer on one side of the store, my boss asked me to go help another one on the other side of the store, which is literally a 2-minute walk away, while 2 other staff members were besides him, doing nothing. I don't even get paid commission. FML
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, a customer filed a formal complaint with corporate about me, because I wouldn't help her find things she wanted while I was off the clock. We were in a completely different store than the one where I actually work. FML
Today, at the job I've had for eight years, I finally got the raise I was supposed to get a year ago. One hour later I found out the store was closing and we were all out of a job in two weeks. FML
Today, a customer filed a complaint against me because my coworker took too long to do a price check. I hate my job. FML
Today, my boss called on my day off and told me to come to work. She neglected to tell me that it was simply to give me my recent paycheck after it got lost, but then she said, "Since you showed up in uniform, you might as well clock in for today. The new guy no-showed again." FML
Today, after working all day and putting in hours of overtime, I realized I never clocked in. FML
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drayloon 50
So, I hear your place is hiring soon...
emeraldisle 30
I hope his arse gets fired immediately!
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drayloon 50
So, I hear your place is hiring soon...
emeraldisle 30
I hope his arse gets fired immediately!
fleur_de_fevrier_fml 23
Did you report him? He would totally deserve it.
Lalala579121 28
I bet he was off planking.
emh86 14
Was he looking for Pokemon or something? Hope the appropriate action will be taken!!
InfiniteSunshine 32
I don't see how your coworker even thought an hour break was justified, much less coming back at closing. Where I worked, for an 8hr shift, alls we got was a 30mins break, and a 15mins one, and these had to be separate. This was all they were required to give us by law, so it's the max we were allowed to have, we weren't allowed to use more. If a coworker ever said to any other, "I'm taking an hour break," the response would be "that's not allowed, you'll be back here in half an hour or less, or a manager will be notified and you will be fired." You need to report your coworker to HR if you have one, or a manager, he was getting paid and supposed to be doing his job that day, but he wasn't, so he's wasting company time, being a slacker and failing to do his job, as well as ruining the store's reputation.
InfiniteSunshine 32
You work 12hrs, 6 days a week, I assume that's what 12x6 means, of course you will get more or longer breaks. I said for a regular 8hr shift, 30mins is standard, it is the most common, it gives people just enough time to eat, it's a "meal break." I also did specify "where I worked," I never said this applied everywhere. However, 1hr is actually pretty uncommon, in fact, in most states, they don't even need to give you a meal break. "Fewer than half the states require employers to provide a meal break. In those states that require meal breaks, employees who work more than five or six hours at a time typically must be allowed to take a half hour to eat." In a lot of other countries, 30mins is also pretty standard. Employers, wanting to get the most work out of their employees as possible, usually only allow a 30min break, especially for jobs in retail, which a hardware job is. I want to know what jobs you've worked at where you get hour long breaks, I wish I got that lol. Even if I work 12hrs, I get 2 30min breaks and I have to take them separately.
Bearsmomma 30
I worked a data entry job, a human resources position, a basic office/front desk job, and trained new hires for an emergency call center. All had hour long lunches.
samwilliams800 28
Talk to his direct supervisor, the store manager and HR, in that order. It's BS when people think they can get away with that. Even more so when it's a supervisor's pet employee.
yerawizardlizzy 27
Where was the manager??
Tyrax 16
*facepalm* The worst part is that the part that bothers me is the struggle for "oaky."
Tyrax 16
Obviously you should report him. It sucks that you had to finish the shift alone.