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....