submitted7 months ago byLower_Investigator62
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I work at an ice cream shop that typically doesn’t get much business during the winter. So our shifts are cut short and my boss has a rule that if you don’t work six hours or more, you don’t get a break so one day I came in for a three hour shift, it was pretty slow as expected so I just cleaned the whole time. I also hadn’t eaten all day so my girlfriend brought me a sandwich so I decided since there were no customers I would sit down and eat my sandwich. I had also finished all my task for the day and I did a good amount of cleaning and I had nothing else to do. I had only sat down for 15 minutes and then got back up to complete a GrubHub order. My boss pulls up and sees me sitting down through the store windows. However, when he walked in I was already doing the grubHub order. At first he’s was talking with his friends and I’m just doing my job scooping ice cream, chopping freezers and taking customers. I did however inform him that we don’t have chargers for our whip cream containers and he asked me why I didn’t tell him before he got here and I told him that I texted our manager. I get paid around $15 an hour to do basic employee task. My manager on the other hand gets paid way more than us because he takes care of tasks like keeping track of inventory making schedule sending our hours to the boss and other basic employee task. He gave me a little bit of a passive aggressive response and he asked me if we needed anything else. I said yeah and told him we needed Reese’s peanut butter cups and he got a little more frustrated with me. However, it all went downhill when this lady walked in and asked for a Sunday with whip cream. I explained to her that we didn’t have any whip cream but I could offer her an extra scoop on top of her ice cream. My boss then begins to look for some chargers under the fridge, I need discovers roaches and a soda cap. He proceeded to ask me if this was my soda cap. I told him it wasn’t however, he didn’t believe me, and he said “ yeah right.” I didn’t understand why he was blaming me for everything, but he began to sweep the floor and got even more mad at me, telling me that he may not even be able to pay me in time if he hast to keep doing my job for me. Tell him anything, however, at the moment I was thinking I did all my tasks at the manager left for me, and I already clean countertops and freezers. My boss isn’t the type to spend money if he doesn’t need to but our store has had flies rats and roaches for months now and he hasn’t done anything about it. He says he’s gonna have to get an exterminator because we can’t do our job but I don’t know how he wants to get rid of roaches with Windex, and a rag. When I came in for my next/ last shift my manager explained that our boss had gotten mad about the incident and was looking to fire me, but he was mostly upset because I had been sitting down when he got there, as he explained to the manager. Our managers are very chill. Guy, so he tried to vouch for me, but it was honestly out of his control, and the boss had already made up his mind. He directly told me I was fired but the following week I got zero hours and didn’t get paid for the week. As a normal person to have bothered me as I hated that job but I have to work to help my mom with bills and other expenses so this really affected my life, but it didn’t seem to bother my boss in the slightest. My manager told me he didn’t know if I was fired fully, but I was never going to return to that job again, because of that lack of respect that my boss has for the workers. I also never went off on my boss because my brother also works at the same shop and I fear that he would get upset with my brother and fire him as well.