Khaymus

The blog addition to Graffes is pretty neat. It'll certainly give me a way to vent without clogging up the forums with my own bloggish work drama.

So after exploring my options on the back pay I'm owed (covered in my November rant, http://www.graffe.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54726), I've elected to put all my current grievances into a letter, including a summary of the outstanding wages, and send it certified to the owner and manager. This is actually the first step in the state of Maryland for legal action. I'm even going a little easier on them than I could by law...I could demand the full amount paid by a deadline (usually 10 days) and all I'm demanding is a fixed payment schedule and falling no further behind. If they fail to follow up, I'll have to get a lawyer as I seem to have three options. I can let the state take over and collect the wages. I can sue them in civil court. Or I can file criminal charges against them.

I'm also going after them on scheduling. I've referred to my schedule jokingly as "set in sand", but the fact is that it is the most ridiculous thing I've ever experienced. I've never had a job with no set schedule, no regular relief, no set days off. I get Sunday every week because the store is closed, but otherwise I've had as little as 10 hours notice when a day off is cancelled for NON-emergency reasons and they occasionally just get skipped. I don't have any legal recourse on this one, but I can (and will) walk away from the job if I have to.

Truly, I cannot adequately sum up my supervisor for you, except to express that he is probably the MOST self-centered person in existence today. Everything has to be framed in terms of how it will affect him. I'm hoping the realization that HE will be stuck in here all day every day if I leave will force him to concede more time.