The Lower the Pay, the Harder the Work

[shanmonster]

Last month, the manager at work told me that she only wanted me to work on weekday evening shifts from thereafter. I went ahead and scheduled myself to attend weekend dance workshops in Toronto throughout the month of October. Yesterday, when I checked the schedule, I saw that I'd been slotted in to work on a Sunday morning. I talked to the assistant manager, and explained that since I'd been told I was only to work weekdays, I now work part-time and take classes on weekends. She responded by telling me that if there are any days I'm unavailable, that I'm supposed to let them know.

Why would I let them know I'm not available to work on days when I was told I wouldn't be working?

I refuse to work on Sundays in October. I've paid my tuition for the workshops, it's non-refundable, and even if it were refundable, this is training I've been looking forward to for a couple of years (butoh).

Also, I was sent to clean the outdoor menu board the other night, and got a nasty electrical shock. At first, I thought I'd been stung by a hornet, but nope. It was electrocution. And then a thunderstorm started, and I was still supposed to finish cleaning outdoor stuff.

At least they stopped hanging the garbage-handling gloves directly over the ice used for cold beverages....

Comments

[zombienought.livejournal.com]

Yuck, yuck, yuck, and awful!

Please find another job. :(

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Working on it, as always.

new job

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, you at least have enough experience to get a job at a better restaurant with better tips. Waitressing can be a high paying job, especially cocktail waitressing. Manage your managers.

Re: new job

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I've been looking, but so far, the only other restaurant that's considered hiring me wanted me to work just for tips.

[valkryor.livejournal.com]

Tell them you can't because you have paid classes. If they complain, ask them when your times available changed and why weren't you informed about it.

And, to be triply safe, book off those days anyway. I know it's silly, but retail/service industry is like that.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Told 'em. They're not scheduling me for weekends anymore. As far as crappy jobs go, they treat their employees pretty fairly.

[thebluestar98.livejournal.com]

fuuuuuck that.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Hallelujah.

Show more initiative

[(Anonymous)]

Why get pissed over a fast food job? This incident should give you the initiative to walk out the door. That is, unless you really don't want to attend the dance workshops in Toronto and are just looking for an excuse to bail out.

Re: Show more initiative

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

After almost six months of job searching, this is the only fulltime job I've been able to find (other than 100%-commission sales work and call centres). If I could afford to quit, I would. But I have to wait until f00dave finds something, or one of the sporadic interviews I have for other jobs comes through.

I've been looking for another job all this time. Don't doubt it.

Re: Show more initiative

[(Anonymous)]

That may well be the case, but it doesn't address my assertion that you are seeking some minor job snafu in order to get out of the workshop. I don't think you're really serious about the workshop, you simply want to be able to say something to effect, "Oh, I was going to that but my boss wouldn't let me."

Re: Show more initiative

[f00dave.livejournal.com]

You clearly don't know Shan, then. Moreover, if you're going to continue to be mean to her like this, you should have the decency/courage to post non-anonymously.

Just my $0.02.

Re: Show more initiative

[(Anonymous)]

RACIST.

Re: Show more initiative

[f00dave.livejournal.com]

Weird.

Re: Show more initiative

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I am going to the workshops. I don't get where you thought I wasn't.

"Electrocution"

[(Anonymous)]

Dimwit, you received an electric shock. "Electrocution" is to execute with electricity.

Try this: placed a bucket of water in front of your fuse box. Take one regular sized pair of bolt cutters. Stand in the bucket. Now, take the bolt cutters and cut that thick black wire that leads to the terminal (be certain that the power is on).

Now that's electrocution. See the difference between it and the occurence with the fast food sign?

Re: "Electrocution"

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I don't see the difference. Do you see the difference? Use ABC.

Re: "Electrocution"

[(Anonymous)]

You might not see the difference if you elected to use bolt-cutters with those sissified rubber grips. I neglected to mention you should use the old fashioned variety with metal handles. Good luck!

Re: "Electrocution"

[f00dave.livejournal.com]

Either way, you'd probably be fine: a bucket of water isn't a problem, even standing in it (unless it's a metal bucket touching something metal which is grounded). The reason water and electricity is a bad combination is that water often creates a ground-path ... in a tub = the plumbing fixtures, a puddle in the kitchen = ventilation duct or plumbing, etc.

Indeed, if it was a rubber/plastic bucket, then it's actually _safer_ than those rubber gripped handles, as there's a thicker insulator in the way.

But yeah, a shock is different than an electrocution. =)