I was hired on at a small family owned clothing store. The manager hired me on as a full time key holder due to my previous experience as an assistant manager in retail. Yesterday I ended up having to call out of work for the first time a little last minute having the worst cramps of my life.
So today when I got to work she was livid at me saying I never show up on time and that even the 3 minutes late I got here today was unacceptable and I called out and so she is going to take my keys and cut my pay and my hours.
She proceeded to give the keys to a part time high schooler who literally shows up an hour late for work every day she comes in after school.
I just saw the schedule she made for next week and she scheduled me a total of 19 hours and 2 of the days were literally 2 hour shifts.
I feel so blind sided but it’s like she has had it out for me since she hired me. Never including me and being buddy buddy with all of the other employees accept for me. I never cause problems and my sales are good so I don’t know why she would act this way. What do I do? I need this job and I need the hours.
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Leave. You deserve better than this, managers are the worst and somehow the owners never sees that all they do is gossip, eat, sit all day, cut people hours, shows favoritism and takes credit for the employees hard work. They care nothing about the company. I was groped by my lesbian manager on my boobs, everyone laugh about it. They’re disgusting. Their day will come, leave them in the hands of god and try find something else other than retail cause it’s the most mentally and physically exhausting job and there is no fairness just slavery.
The best way to counter it is by looking for a new job, in the mean time try having a conversation with your boss. Ask about your scheduling and what can be done to give yourself more hours. I agree with the other commenters sentiments completely but at the same time I know that it’s hard finding a new job and unless you have a security blanket quitting one job without another will likely backfire.
... you start looking for another job.