i've only worked here since april. switched jobs from a dishie at a old folks home to a "cook" (lol honestly glorified dishwasher anyway, the only culinary related thing i do is shuck oysters) at a new bar downtown. we don't have any managers since the team is pretty small so the owner does everything himself including scheduling.
he posts the schedule, i have a 3 day weekend after two weeks of covering for the only other two "cooks" in the kitchen on vacation, and one day into my weekend he sends me this. i'm prolly in the wrong for the sass but bro goes immediately into holding a raise he very recently gave me over my head and then threatening my position.
i'm alr looking for different jobs atm, don't care where as i was promised FT hours and am barely scraping by with 30 a week. it's even less this time around. the work is fun and i really love my coworkers and the people i meet at the bar but with the pay of $17 an hour with no benefits no FT and a 30 min commute it's not worth it. advice or personal stories appreciated
by brkr509
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i’ve never butted heads with this guy before this. sure we don’t have a person dedicated to scheduling all of 10 of us on staff but i feel like if you as the owner make a scheduling mistake on someone’s day off and the rest of your kitchen staff is out you need to step up and take responsibility. maybe i’m just a dickhead dishie at the end of the day
Cut and run, homie.
That’s a bad manager.
This guy sounds like a tool. The last shit owner I had was pulling some stuff like this on me too. Making me work 8 days in a row and whatnot. I quit on his sorry ass, and I don’t stand for this kind of shit anymore. Some people really can’t run a business. Don’t post a schedule and then change it up and demand someone to come in the next day. Fuck that guy.
Also, a place with no management team and an owner that tries to do everything is usually a red flag. The owner I mentioned before was like this. And he would fumble things constantly. He would get the schedule wrong and he messed up my paychecks before.
The way he messages you is infuriating. hey dude, hey buddy… just asking as a friend… and then having a tantrum because you say no. This person shouldn’t be managing anyone, I would not stay at this place tbh.
You roasted his ass with the sir yes sir lmaoo
He starts with “I messed up the schedule” but then makes it your responsibility to fix said mess. Lovely management they’ve got going on lol
“I just posted the schedule yesterday so you can’t have plans already.” Whose fault is it for posting the schedule the day before the new week starts? That’s shit I’ve quit over before.
“Nobody else can work it.”
“Why not you?”
*begins sweating* “w-what?”
of course this asshole would be posting next week’s schedule the day before it starts and still fuck it up lmaoo
not saying you need to do anything about it, but you might wanna check to see if your locality has predictive scheduling laws. In a lot of places, it’s illegal for a employer to post a schedule or changes with less than 72 hours notice, etc. you should speak to him super professionally from now on just in case he tries to retaliate for you refusing to work a last minute shift… and keep the convo in text whenever possible :]
Run 🏃, don’t walk.
Update your resume and start looking for a new job.
Only an insecure bully threatens to fire someone over something so petty as a little attitude when being treated unfairly.
Granted, the attitude from you was unnecessary and a bit out of line- but hardly worth being terminated over. It was a gross overreaction from his part to assert his power over you.
This guy doesn’t like you now and you are on his shitv list due to your refusal to cover a shift last minute and your attitude given.
“…talk to me like this one more time and I’ll fire you.”
Proper response: “Damn, sir. I guess that would make it even harder, being down another man, to cover up YOUR scheduling mistakes. Sir.”
What a way to ask for a favour lmao
When I had to ask people to cover, if they said yes they were my hero, if they said no, I guess I’m working twice as hard that shift.
Just expecting someone to drop everything on 0 notice is entitled and shitty
I spent roughly 20 years writing schedules. From time to time, I’ve had to contact someone to cover in a pinch. This is how the exchange always went.
Me: Can you come in?
Them: yes/no
Me: cool.
It never mattered if they said yes or no. My response was always the same. I ask the question. They answer. And then I just move on with whatever needed to be done to get the job done. If someone would come in, I’d move them up in my mental rolodex of people to call if I needed help in the future. If they didn’t, I’d move them down. I never thought any less or more of anyone for how they responded. Some folks have lives. Just because I never did, I wasn’t going to hold that against them.
Is the job paying for your cell?
Then you don’t need to answer those texts.
17$? Brother I cut grass for a living at 23$ an hour, get the hell out of there.
Do you think you would have responded differently if your boss had texted something like “Hey dude, I know this is short notice but I screwed up the schedule for tomorrow and dude is still on vacation, is there any way you could cover 3-close tomorrow?”
The way they worded it like a command rather then a request would have pissed me off for sure.
Even if I didn’t have plans I would have said I did just to not set the precedent that they could treat me that way.
Yeah, I would have ended that with “Sure thing, I totally got you” then no show the next day. Fuck that noise
“This is how you treat me after a dollar raise”
Seriously? No like actually?
This has happened to me before and it always hurts. Like hey, you realize your holding this thing over my head as if you’re doing me a favor? It’s your job. Learn about it.
Doing anything for someone else and attempting to hold it over their head is an attempt to manipulate the other person in doing what you want. That’s not a gift, that’s a contract you didn’t agree to.
That extra dollar means he owns you
Brooo,
I adore how you spoke to him, that was cathartic.
It’s awesome that you spoke your mind, ain’t no job loss going to let you be stepped on.
Something tells me his threats to fire you are just malicious yet empty barking.
Keep it up OP, we need more people with spines in this world.
Fuck this manager. Making scheduling a personal issue is unprofessional as hell.
Love how he’s threatening to fire you but also begging you to cover a day where no one else can come in.
He’s a bad manager, super disrespectful, and not very bright. GTFO! Runnnnnn
I’d just aggre that I heard and understood and then attend my plans tomorrow he never wanted your confirmation youd come in
Bad manager is bad. It isn’t your fault they screwed up. It’s fine to ask, but to demand that you reply promptly and also fix *their* mistake is ridiculous.
People that act like this are so fucking annoying bro. “Talk to me like this again and I’ll fire you” treating you like you’re a child or some shit.
No he deserved the sass absolutely.
I’d be saluting the shit outta him til he walks me out that door cause I know that “sir yessir” got to him. Great reply 🫡
“How’s this then? ***Eat my entire ass***, take your job and fuck yourself with it.”
No job is worth that level of toxicity.
“sorry I can’t”
“there is no one else who can”
Bitch, you just said you also can’t lol. Why is he okay with the others saying “I can’t” but when you say the same, it doesn’t count?