A Very Long Day
So I’m working 2nd shift till 10PM, and my coworker is supposed to come in at 9:30 to open up her register so I can close down. At 9:45 I try to call her cell, to see if she’s just running late.
It’s been disconected. i give her till 10:15 to show up (we’ve all been late, no reason to have the manager give her a strike), then call the manager. No answer. I try 4 assistant managers, still no answer.
I try everybody else who’s capable of working 3rd shift (there’s extra training involved before the store can let you work 3rd, per policy), and nobody can come in.
Finally an assistant manager calls back, and basically begs me to work the 3rd shift, and passive aggressively threatens to fire me (we might have to make some cutbacks in the future, I’d hate for you to be one of them). I need the job, so I do it.
The next day this coworker works (after I chewed out the manager and all 4 assistants for allowing this), she tells me her second job offered her extra hours, so she took it. She missed her full-time job without calling off to work a different job. She wasn’t fired because the manager would have to cover her shifts until a replacement was found.
Fun fact: I work two jobs. One full time 1st shift, the other part time at this store. I ended up working from 7AM on day one, to 3PM on day two. My only breaks were an hour each day to drive from one work to the other. Not counting those breaks. I worked 30 hours essentially in a row. Story credit: Reddit / StuStutterKing