Pros
$18 an hour, could get full time hours
Cons
This job started okay at $18 an hour and full time hours. I started around July 2021. My job has a lot of East Indians which is not an issue for me, except for the fact that my manager and upper management also happen to be East Indian and all the new employees hired have also been and now they are getting the 7-3 shifts I’ve been asking for for months on end since I started. As a father of 4 kids who only gets 3-11 shifts, I don’t see my kids for numerous days in a row. That affects my mental and emotional health and makes me dread coming into work each and every day. Listening to my kids say “Am I going to see you tomorrow Daddy?” Or my wife calling me every night at bedtime so my crying kids can say goodnight to me and tell me they miss me and don’t want me to go to work anymore. No job is worth that much emotional pain inflicted on my babies. I have told my bosses that I’m okay with working three 7-3s and two 3-11s (or vice versa every week) to make it more fair for the other employees. Most of them don’t have families or children but I still wanted it to be fair. Now they’ve switched to fixed schedules and have dropped me down to 2 days a week and all the new people (East Indian) who started a month ago have full time shifts of their preference. A (caucasian) friend who used to work here re applied and was told there’s no availability for new hires and then he goes and hires FOUR MORE East Indians. It’s all about the race and the religion within their race. My manager is a religion that is disliked by the religion of the manager above him and so everything, to put it simply, is racially Effed up in this company. And I’m not racist by any means, I’m a Métis guy in a city full of a huge variety of cultures and races. Anyways, my manager and I are sort of buddies and he knew how pissed I was with the new schedule so he showed me the schedule his boss made (favouring the ones of the same race/religion and I had ZERO shifts) and this is why I can say all of this with confidence and honesty. His boss is taking control over his say and making everything unfair, but at least he got me 2 shifts instead of none. I know this is complete and utter bull sheet that the schedule is being manipulated to favour people of their own religion/culture/race. Good thing I’m about to start another job soon, it’s a pay cut but it’s going to be WAY less stressful and not racially biased towards me so it’s 100% worth it. Best of all, I’ll get to see my kids every day, whether it’s a bit in the morning or a bit in the evening. But I still want others to know how this company will operate and that it’s not worth the mental stress and unfair treatment . I might even take this information to the labour board so they can investigate it and maybe actually fix the corrupt management within