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Suicune's Fire
Yikes, that's terrible. It's so stupid that it seems like nobody is hiring, yet everyone has understaffing issues. Ridiculous.
I used to work at a cafe and a similar sort of thing happened; I was meant to be closing from 3:30pm-8pm, but my manager got sick and asked me if I could cover her shift instead, and the cafe owner would get my shift covered. So I said yes, and started work at 7am. It got later in the day and I hadn't heard about who was covering my 3:30-8, so I enquired with my sick manager who was also trying to work it out, then got a call from the owner saying that he was trying but nobody was free, and tried all these manipulative tactics to make me feel sympathetic toward the situation, and asked if I could do the close as well. So that'd be 13 hours, four of which in the middle were when I had a second person on. But from 7-9:30 I was on my own, and 1:30-8pm also on my own. No I didn't want to do a 13 hour shift but I felt like I had no choice, so I said I'd do it, but began panicking afterwards because I realised I'd been taken advantage of and it shouldn't be my problem if the cafe was understaffed. So I spoke to my manager and she was like "What the hell, call him back and tell him no" so I worked up the courage and did that, and he has the nerve to accuse me of not pulling my weight and not helping out, to which I replied with, "Well actually I have already done my share of helping out today by covering the manager's shift." Legally you can't make a casual staff member work more than 10 hours, which evidently he knew after he realised I was not going to agree to staying longer than 10 hours, so he begrudgingly said I could close it up at 5pm because that's 10 hours. So I was really happy with myself for putting my foot down, but it put a reeeally bad taste in my mouth and I ended up quitting a week or so later after he asked me to work another 10 hour shift (when I normally did 4).
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