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[quote=Anonymous]Oh god yes, especially when I worked in food service.

After my divorce I got a job managing a Starbucks at a university.  I had NO TEETH as a manager, because I employed mostly students, so couldn’t discipline them for showing up late or not showing up at all.  As a result, every day was absolute hell. I was also told - after I signed the contract - that although I was salaried for 40 hours a week, I was expected to be onsite 50 hours a week.  I had a baby and a toddler and it was very, very hard.  I cried in the bathroom a ton.

I was disciplined for not completing inventory on one of the days where literally no one showed up to work - I could not physically run the store and complete inventory. Obviously. I eventually had to leave to pick up my kids.  I came to work the next day and was greeted with a write up for neglecting my duties.

I burned through my remaining PTO and was fired over the phone.  Luckily I had just started a grad program and was able to get a grad assistant position pretty quickly.

Now I have a great career in IT, but I shudder to think of how many similarly vulnerable workers are exploited and penalized, as I was.  It was truly a nightmare.[/quote]

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