Temper Tantrum Time!
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 23:09 | 159 viewsOver the past few weeks I was lucky enough to get some half descant shifts with the weekends off. Mind you they had me scheduled some 10 and 11½ hour shifts which I never did fully work. I’ve just left early on each of those shifts. I don’t believe anybody there actually finished working any of those long shifts. Simply because after 8½ hours, of constant nagging and whining from customers all day, is all you can mentally take without exploding on somebody just because you get so irritable by the end of an 8½ hour shift.
We were getting empty promises that they would stop scheduling 10 or 11½ hour shifts, and yet they’re making the promise again when the new meat lands on the floor. I’ll believe it when I see it.
Now this week, the schedule is just SHIT!
First off, it was late coming out. So not only does it suck to know you’re schedule one week at a time, it was late and I didn’t get it till I came into work on Monday. Only to find out I had to work Sunday. Boy I was ready to open a can of whoop ass if they tried to get me to sign off on a disciplinary form for a ‘No call , No Show’ incident. I would have refused to sign it and told them to shove it up their asses.
But wait! There’s MORE!
They want me to make up that 4 hour shift I missed by working 9 hours one of my crappy days off!Yea I got no more weekends off. What the fuck happened to seniority? They have me off on Thursday and Friday. WTF??
It’s just keeps going from Bad to Worse! I had better see some fucking sweet shifts next schedule. I’m going to be an ass making them stick to their promises this time. I’ll be a royal pain in their ass for a change. I’m tired of bending over.
Does anybody have a link or information on the New Brunswick labor laws? Can they make you work over 44 hours in a week? And can they make you work these crazy shifts? These 10 and 11½ hour ones with just two 15 minute breaks and a half hour lunch? If you know, post a link in the comments would ya’? I would love to have some ‘IN YOUR FACE’ material when I tell them to take their schedules and shove them up their asses.
OK, that’s enough for now. I could go on and on about how much I hate this fucken’ job, but you all know that. Well, it’s not really the actual job, it’s how it’s managed, and the customers that call in are all a bunch of crybabies and whiners, and liars and cons that complain about everything when what they;re complaining about is their own stupidity and don’t want to take responsibility for their actions.
OK, OK, I’m sorry. that’s enough ranting for now. I’m sure I will have more of that later next week when I get fucked over on my next weeks schedule.
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October 21st, 2009 at 1:16 pm
LINK
yes they can make you work over 44 hours a week.
October 21st, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Uhh Yeah: Thanks but that was from back in 1982 when Working Sundays was prohibited. LOL
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:21 pm
SO? What you think the labour laws have changed that much? Yes they can make you work over 44 hours whenever they want to. They don’t even have to pay you more money for overtime. I’ll bet nothing in that has changed including the laws about working on Sundays.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Uhh yeah: Somebody told me the other day 44 hours is the max and there is overtime. I was hired on for 37.5 hours.
Not going t o argue, but I’ve heard a few people say differently. Although you have a link, it’s too bad you couldn’t find something more up to date.
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:56 am
Mac, I thought I commented here, but I commented on DL’s blog instead. Too many tabs.
Read it: LINK
mel´s last blog ..heh
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:34 am
@mel: I agree with your comment. Things have changed since the 80’s
Also, wonder how it didn’t occur to you that even the comment layout was totally different. The Smileys, and Avatars and all.
Were you drunk
, sleep commenting 
, or on some new form of psychedelic drugs? LOL!
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:59 pm
37.5 hours is what is considered the minimum for it to be considered a full time job.44 hours a week is the maximum hours they can pay you minimum wage at. after that they have to pay you time and a half of minimum wage. so if your making… lets say 12 bucks an hour. you work lets say 50 hours, you get straight 12 dollars an hour. you dont get any extra unless you got a generous employer, but by law all he has to pay you for overtime is time and a half of minimum wage, at this point in time that would be $11.625 an hour. here is a link to the last amendment of the act back in 2008.
LINK
fifth one down.
i had a discussion with my father in law about these very points, and he told me everything i needed to know. He has owned several companies, and has run others with hundreds of employees under him, so thats the only reason i know this stuff
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:07 pm
and if you want a link to something stating they can make you work over 44 hours here ya go.
http://www.gnb.ca/0308/index-e.asp
look on the right hand side of the page, click on minimum wage and rest period, and there ya go. they only have to give you 24 consecutive hours off once a week. That was made in 2009 but it hasnt changed since the 1982 one you guys were all laughing at if you go back and look.
Like i said, about the only things that have changed since the 1980s are the increases in minimum wage.
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:11 pm
@Uhh Yeah: LOL! That’s just for Minimum wage. That just says the Max amount of hours a person can be paid @ minimum wage.
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:14 pm
the working on Sundays falls under a different law called the Day of Rest act or something to that effect, so its separate law all together. there are still exemptions for certain sectors to not work sundays of they dont want to. Retail and tourism are two.
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:16 pm
you obviously didnt scroll down to this part eh?
Weekly Rest Period
Every employer in New Brunswick is
required to give all employees who qualify
a weekly rest period of at least twenty-four
(24) consecutive hours. The rest period is to
be taken, if possible, on Sunday. This does
not authorize any work to be performed on
Sunday that is now prohibited by law.
So as i was told “if it aint in the law, it aint law.”