Fun fact: aptitude tests are fine, as is shadowing someone to see if the job is a good fit for you. HOWEVER, if you do ANY work that benefits the company, they have to pay you.
A few tips. Every minute you work, including training, they must pay you for. If you make tips, your hourly wage plus tips must equal at least minimum wage. If they don't the restaurant must make up the difference. If you work salary your contract will include how many hours you're required to work. If you work over the number of hours in your contract they are required to pay you for the extra hours. If it's more than 40 hours they are required to pay you overtime.
I technically quit after the first day. It was Party City and everything was annoying. The registers were annoying to use, I was apparently taught wrong, and other staff were just on their phones the whole time, and so it all rubbed me the wrong way. I texted the hiring manager after I left and talked it out with my family.
Story 2: stuff like that makes me mad. At my current job, you have three days of a trial period to make sure you feel like you're a good fit for the job and they feel like you're a good fit for the job. You get paid minimum wage during that time, but you're still paid. With the field I'm in, you'd be surprised how many people either don't last all three days, leave halfway through their first day, or make it all three days and then never show back up. It's part of why they have the set up they do.
I left my last job after a completely dead evening shift - literally nothing to do, as in "I got bored enough to scrub out the wheelie bins" level dead, because I wasn't allowed to just leave early (and believe me, I asked), and then the manager had the audacity to get angry with *me* for complaining about having nothing to do. I handed my notice in a few days later.
Was working with a realty company like, ten years ago and was helping this guy to sell this house. When I got there he led me around the house and was going through, telling me about everything that was wrong with the place. Obviously, a little odd. What was more odd was when another guy came in who looked completely different, claiming that he was in fact, the homeowner. This is strange in and of itself, but then a third man came in claiming to be the homeowner showed up, and at that point I was just sick of trying to deal with this group. I literally got out of my seat and said “I’m outta here” before driving away.
25:19 oh, you sweet summer child 😂 I’m not saying it’s OKAY the way that people do these things, but you literally can’t work minimum wage at a fast food restaurant without being taught to upsell. Source: literally every retail/food service/receptionist (for somewhere that sells a service) job I’ve ever had
About 3 months ago, left a job at bunzels meat and catering (Wauwatosa Wisconsin, cause fuck them) company because I accidentally dropped about 5 pounds of the 400 pounds bacon I was packaging on the floor and threw it away. The owner came over after he saw me throw it away and told me if it happens again, just pick it up and flip it over, the customers wont see it on the bottom. I just said “…what” and he repeated himself. Took my apron off, handed it too him and told him this won’t work out. Plus side, they paid me the whole days worth of work, probably hoping I wouldn’t make a big deal about it. Told a lot of people at work with now, and my friends about it, they at least lost some customers.
@@rolandhansen812 The way I see it, any expenses required to perform the job should be covered by the employer either through reimbursement or realistic wages. Office workers don't purchase the computers they work on or the paper that goes in the copy machine. The gas is being purchased for the sake of the company, not for personal use. If a driver spends more money on gas than they make in wages, the employer is failing them. It fails to function as a job should, and it is not sustainable as an employee. Many people have to rely on these services as full-time jobs, and it simply is not livable.
