Fired from a pizza shop
Years ago I worked for a U-bake style pizza place. I was only 16 and worked about 10-12 hours a week because of school. There were times when they would make me be on call 3 days out of the week (on top of these 10-12 hours). I was only working there to earn money to pay my car insurance, put gas in the car, and buy clothes. It was not a very important job to me but when I was there I rocked! My dad owned a pizza place for a while before that and I could run it with my eyes closed, the current place I worked wouldn't even let me touch any of the machinery b/c I wasn't old enough! It was very frustrating. My boss even admitted I had more experience than she did. Anyways, to make a long story short... when I would get called in on my days off I would always give the shift to this other guy who lived alone and was working his way through college. He always needed money and wanted more hours and since I was just on-call I'd let him have the hours. He never went into overtime and I didn't think it was a big deal- he needed the money, they needed someone to work, and I had homework to do. Well, apparently they didn't like it and they fired me!!!! Nobody ever told me it was wrong and I was a kick-butt worker! WTF?
Submission ID: 455
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by manipulating hours and shifts, you effectively undermined the authority of your superior and deserved termination for it. be frustrated about not working the machinery if you want, but those laws are FEDERAL and there isn't anything you or they can do about it. no one had to tell you it was wrong... simply count it as a lesson learned.