Day 18
I got a talking-to because I was late to the front desk. I walked in at 11:30, the start of my shift, dilly dallied in the back (because I don’t care about this job but Immah throw shade if I can’t get paid), and didn’t report to the front desk until 11:38. This threw off the entire start of the midday shift, and allegedly had a direct impact on our rent and our owner’s private tutoring schedule.
Day 19
In an effort to make amends for Day 18’s shortcomings, and also to milk as much hourly pay from this job as timecard-ly possible, I reported to the front desk 30 minutes before the start of my shift. I jumped right into the flow of things, working alongside a girl about to end her shift, and two other girls who were meant to be working with me for the rest of that day - one a manager, one a trainee.
Before the next class let out, the trainee left. She was dismissed a good six and a half hours before the end of her scheduled shift, by the owner of the studio. I ask the manager why the trainee isn’t working. The manager replies in confusion, “Is she scheduled for right now?”
Manager and Owner check the front desk schedule, and indeed, Trainee should be there. I carry on, enjoying the hustle and bustle of check-in (not enjoying the mind-numbing lulls in between), and am asked by Manager, “What time did you get in today?”
“1:30,” I reply. “But my shift was scheduled for 2.”
“Oh, that’s where the confusion started…” Manager says.
Owner, seeing that there were four girls at the front desk during the half hour where I was not scheduled, sent Trainee home, thinking there were too many people present. “We already have three people. You can go home.” So Trainee went home.
I got a talking-to because I was early to the front desk. “You see, Mayka,” Owner says, “When I see all these girls at the front desk, I think, we don’t need everyone there. So I send Trainee home. If you come in early, you have to stay in the back. You cannot be in the front because if I see you in the front, I think there are too many people scheduled, and I send people home.” (In between the lines: “No, the front desk shift schedule is posted in my office above my computer monitor for no reason at all.”)
Juxtaposing polar opposites side-by-side is fun! Must think of the next Small Business Superiors’ worst nightmares in part-time employee habits…
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