By nattlecakes - 07/04/2015 07:23 - United States - Sacramento

Today, after over six weeks of not getting a single shift at my part time job, I finally went in to meet my new manager. He didn't even know I existed. Apparently my old manager lied and said I quit so they hired someone else. FML
I agree, your life sucks 36 370
You deserved it 6 114

nattlecakes tells us more.

nattlecakes 19

Alright. OP here. My workplace switched managers due to our store getting a bad rating from corporate and sales basically tanking. He was demoted to a different store and instead decided to quit. I wasn't getting hours before my old manager left either. I had talked to him and he said the ratio with sales versus hours employees are working was out of whack or something along those lines, and since I hadn't been fully trained yet I couldn't run the shop on my own or even with one to two others there since they would have been either doing all the work or they wouldn't have needed me there. Also pretty much very other co worker had been whittled down to only one to three shifts a week other than the supervisors so that was out of my control but things are supposed to change when the new manager comes in. My new manager comes in a few weeks ago and I was still coming in every week to check the schedule. At this point nobody knew that's what my old manager had said. I kept seeing coworkers and talking to them, but never my new manager so I checked to see when he would be in. Inconveniently, just after this new manager transferred to our store he went on a two and a half week vacation (three weeks of work). The day he comes back in I come in and introduce myself and say I would like to discuss hours, and he has the most confused look on his face ever. I punch in my employee number and it says I am no longer employed. That's when we called the owner and figure out what had happened. They said they would call me. That was on Saturday and it's now Tuesday, so i have no idea whether or not I will be getting my job back. Either way I am looking for employment elsewhere since I obviously don't have much stability at my current workplace and the business is suffering badly anyway.

Top comments

I'm surprised it took you six weeks to go in and ask what was going on.

Sounds like your old manager was a shift-y character

Comments

As shitty as that is OP, you should've gone in after a few days of not getting called in just to see what was going on with scheduling. I know every couple of days I check, or sometimes double check, our work schedule just to make sure I know what's going on. It's shitty but your fault with not checking in. I have no idea why you wouldn't even call much let go in physically after a week of nothing.

There is always that person who thinks suing is the answer. Let me tell you why it is not. OP waited six weeks to figure out why they were not scheduled. Any normal person would actually wonder why they waited so long. Perhaps they did quit, and figured the new manager wouldn't know. Just looking from a lawyers point of view. There are many more, but I'll stop.

That is NOT the solution. The solution was going in before letting 6 weeks go by. Tukies, beat me to it.

Even if that was meant to be a joke, it's not funny at all

oh give her a break. we all know OP should have gone in earlier to get it taken care of. but #12 is still a teenager with no doubt the same mentality most of us had as teenagers that you can get a lawsuit on anyone for anything.

DaEpicTaco 13

I don't approve of that old manager

Really? You don't approve of the former manager? Because to be honest, i don't approve of OP, who's actions or lack of, seem way more questionable at this point.

You waited SIX WEEKS? You must not have wanted the job too much in the first place if you lived without it for a month and a half.

Why would you wait that long to talk to someone?

I sure hope you react faster to other pressing matters, OP. "Boy, that loud beeping sound sure is annoying, and I can barely see the television through all the smoke. I wonder what's going on? Eh. I'll check it out at the next commercial."

I have to say your deserve it-or at least half deserve it. The hiring manager was a dick but as a general manager myself-if someone never inquired about their job for six weeks I would doubt he or she was serious about their job

you waited for 6 weeks? you don't deserve the job.

If you waited six weeks to hear from them after you were hired apparently you didn't want to work that bad. Seriously you have to be pretty dense to not ask sooner.