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Why my last regular-paycheck job really ended.
Because it was the slow season, everyone's hours were cut, mine to under 10 hours a week. This would have been valid cause to quit and get unemployment, but I hadn't worked long enough in the new state to qualify.
Also, the company willfully created and perpetuated a physically very dangerous and harmful working environment in part of the site, which was painful, dangerous, and exhausting to all workers. According to the general manager, supervisors were supposed to rotate workers out of there every hour or two, but many managers lazily sent people back there and forgot about them for an all-day or all-night shift. When I complained, I was told that "an accommodation would require a note from my doctor."
Also, one of the supervisors (different supervisors rotated different shifts unpredictably) was a screaming abusive a**hole, looking for reasons to fire people when they didn't do what management had failed to teach them how to do.
Rumor was that she was getting hit daily by a physically abusive husband, which is why she sometimes came in to her shift with a black eye and a vague remark about having slipped, and took it out on the workers.
For example, when the lobby was full of customers, she screamed at the top of her voice at me, from the far corner, that I was late returning from my break... when I actually had ten minutes before I was due to clock in.
I think this was the very same week that three different sweet little old ladies, each on their own initiative, independently decided to tell that manager that unlike the young kids, I always got their orders right and was such a dear and a real keeper.
Because it was the slow season, everyone's hours were cut, mine to under 10 hours a week. This would have been valid cause to quit and get unemployment, but I hadn't worked long enough in the new state to qualify.
Also, the company willfully created and perpetuated a physically very dangerous and harmful working environment in part of the site, which was painful, dangerous, and exhausting to all workers. According to the general manager, supervisors were supposed to rotate workers out of there every hour or two, but many managers lazily sent people back there and forgot about them for an all-day or all-night shift. When I complained, I was told that "an accommodation would require a note from my doctor."
Also, one of the supervisors (different supervisors rotated different shifts unpredictably) was a screaming abusive a**hole, looking for reasons to fire people when they didn't do what management had failed to teach them how to do.
Rumor was that she was getting hit daily by a physically abusive husband, which is why she sometimes came in to her shift with a black eye and a vague remark about having slipped, and took it out on the workers.
For example, when the lobby was full of customers, she screamed at the top of her voice at me, from the far corner, that I was late returning from my break... when I actually had ten minutes before I was due to clock in.
I think this was the very same week that three different sweet little old ladies, each on their own initiative, independently decided to tell that manager that unlike the young kids, I always got their orders right and was such a dear and a real keeper.
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