• Neato@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      93
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Since if you decline they fire you. Yeah, this doesn’t make sense since now they’re still out someone for that shift AND out other shifts. But managers aren’t logical or reasonable when they pull shit like this: they’re vindictive.

      • FoundTheVegan@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        32
        ·
        1 year ago

        In their eyes, it’s more important to serve notice to the general workforce on what happens if you refuse versus the importance of any particular shift.

        • Tak@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          31
          ·
          1 year ago

          In most of the US you can be fired for basically any reason even down to they dislike the color of the car you drive.

          • Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            14
            ·
            1 year ago

            In my US state, you can be fired for “no reason” also.

            The US doesn’t have any real worker protections. And one political party in particular is trying their damnedest to remove the few we do.

            • OneMansTrash@lemmy.ml
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              8
              ·
              1 year ago

              “one political party in particular”

              CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS. Don’t sugarcoat it, CALL THEM OUT BY NAME. Otherwise they’ll just pretend it’s not them and do their damndest to act like they’ve done nothing wrong.

              Even the ones who aren’t actively protesting on behalf of the conservatives are still voting for conservatives, who end up making the claims that they can never produce sufficient evidence for.

          • Sharkwellington@lemmy.one
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            11
            ·
            1 year ago

            “I fired them because I disliked the color of their…car. Yeah that’s it.”

            You can be fired for any reason, including illegal ones, because it’s so easy to just give a different reason officially.

  • OneMansTrash@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    32
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Even more depressing when you think about how, overtime is extra money that they’re losing by making you work.

    At my job (pizza place, so maybe bad example), we have effectively only 2 night time managers, which means at the end of the week, whoever has the most hours goes home first, so that franchisee doesn’t have to pay the extra money.

    “so why not just close early if it costs owner too much to pay you?”

    Well, because. Just because, that’s all. Last time I cut orders at 5-or-10-to-close, the next day our owner (who I usually only see twice a year for MAYBE 20mins) came in and said I’d be fired if it happened again.

    People with money don’t give a single fraction of a flying freaky fuck about their employees. Unfortunately for me, I work in one of the (ten poorest) states in the US that enforces ‘right-to-work’ laws, which I recently learned, don’t mean that you have the right to work, but instead means my employer is under no legal or contractual obligation to recognize, let alone pay Union fees.

    Unionizing isn’t illegal, but good luck finding anybody that will do anything pro-union in one of those places.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    25
    ·
    1 year ago

    “Uhh . . . yeah, I’m gonna be leaving at 5, like it says on my schedule and since you’re the manager, you’re gonna need to manage your way out of this situation without me.”

    • FaeDrifter@midwest.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      17
      ·
      1 year ago

      I’m in management, if I need someone to stay late I’ll say please and ask, and if they say no, I respect it. I don’t expect anybody to work outside of their scheduled hours.

      That’s class solidarity. None of us are owners, we are all the labor.

  • Designate@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    23
    ·
    1 year ago

    Crazy how businesses pull this shit. Yet where I work they won’t let us work overtime cause they don’t want to pay us. But then get shitty when the work is not done …

  • deathbird@mander.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    13
    ·
    1 year ago

    The worst bit: “But hey, we’ll give you Tuesday off so you don’t ho over 40h for the week.”

  • Ejh3k@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    6
    ·
    1 year ago

    In our contract we have it that no one has to work overtime, unless no one else who has worked more overtime than you rejects it.

    Luckily, we’ve had some people fall into some legal trouble, so they grab up all the overtime that others don’t want. But there are two people who have worked zero overtime this fiscal year, and I really want to organize my shop into making them both work some really shitty overtime shift.

    • deathbird@mander.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      No one has to work overtime unless everyone ahead of them refuses and there’s no one else behind them, right? And the order of the line is whoever’s worked the most OT. I mean that seems fair though?

      • Ejh3k@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        The system works like this. You get credit for the overtime you work. The people with the least amount of worked overtime are at the top of the list, and the most are at the bottom.

        When opportunities for overtime are offered, we work down the list starting with the people who have worked the least overtime.

        If we go though the list twice, and the number of people requested to work isn’t fulfilled, whoever is at the top is then forced to work the overtime. And we do that until we have the people.

      • Ejh3k@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Because those people are shitty workers as it is, and no one wants them around anymore. And sometimes a cherry assignment for overtime comes around and everyone else wants it, but they get first dibs because of how our system works.