I'm confused and upset about my job now.

[Genny]

If there is ever a reason for young people to go to school, this serves as a wonderful example. Jobs like the one you have are entry level jobs. Hours often stink, managers play games, and you have little power in either skills or education to bargain with.

I would not quit this job. I would experience the difficult task of sitting down with this person and see where she thinks you are lacking. However, in your position, I would not think it hard to figure it out. You run a register and put together peoples orders, essentially. So, she is probably saying you are too slow in one of those areas. You either are or are not slow.
If you are not, find another job cause you are not going to win this fight.

If you are, work on it and you should see a positive change. If not, well, see paragraph above.

Yea, I'm just gonna try to do better. I don't know exactly how cause I already go as fast as I can (in my opinion) but maybe I could try to be a little faster...I dunno...we'll see I guess. I work tomorrow which is Thursday so we'll see what happens. I'm actually off Saturday. Maybe she'll give me more hours next week, but I highly doubt she will this quick

[moosmom]

Document everything. This way if a time does come that a serious pow-wow has to be scheduled, you'll have all your notes documenting everything.

If you want to quit, make sure that you have another one lined up first. I made the mistake of quitting a great staff writer's job at a newspaper, figu8ring I'd have no problem at all finding another writing gig. BIG MISTAKE!!!! I wound up on unemployment and food stamps until I could find a menial position. After 3 years, I threw my hands up in the air and said "Screw it!! I'm packing up and going home!!!!" I've never looked back.

[Genny]

Document everything. This way if a time does come that a serious pow-wow has to be scheduled, you'll have all your notes documenting everything.

If you want to quit, make sure that you have another one lined up first. I made the mistake of quitting a great staff writer's job at a newspaper, figu8ring I'd have no problem at all finding another writing gig. BIG MISTAKE!!!! I wound up on unemployment and food stamps until I could find a menial position. After 3 years, I threw my hands up in the air and said "Screw it!! I'm packing up and going home!!!!" I've never looked back.

oh ye, I will. I won't quit unless I have another job to turn to. And you know what else? The day I was off for the funeral they gave out the paychecks-and I wasn't there so I didn't stop by to get mine. So a few days after I go in and ask for it and they tell me it's in the office and when I go back there and ask for it they tell me it's up front-so when I go up front and tell them they don't know where it's at either so one of my managers told me that she would have to call and make sure it wasn't cashed (wich it wasn't! but i guess they just ave to make sure) and she said as soon as they confirm it hasn't been cashed they can print me out another one. That was over a week ago and everyday that I've been at work I have asked her about it and she always says she hasn't caled yet....how long should that take?

[sparks19]

uh it shouldn't take that long to verify it hasn't been cashed... and they should KNOW whether you picked it up or not. So essentially they are holding your check? are they allowed to DO that? for this long?

[Genny]

Well I wouldn't think they'd be allowed to do that-and plus you're right. They should know if I've picked it up or not-and if not then I think they should keep up w/ it until I pick it up.... But you're right...it probably shouldn't take that long to confirm whether it's been cashed or not. Honestly, I don't think she's called yet...and I don't know why she won't-I've reminded her many times

[kitten645]

Well if "she hasn't called yet" that means she hasn't even set the wheels in motion to replace the check THEY lost! Sounds like BS to me. I'm a manager and my FIRST priority is to make sure my staff is paid! No matter WHAT else is going on, an ERROR on their part that effects YOUR livelyhood should be a priority. Like I said, start looking!

[Genny]

Tonight (or today at 4 when I got off work) my boss asked me if I could stay and work till close....see I got there at 11am today and got off at 4pm. But there has been snow and the roads are frozen in places now and so they were letting people that lived on the mountain go home...so my boss (the woman who took away my hours! ;[ asked me if I could stay until close...which is 9pm. Seriously...I would have...but my mom kept calling me and if I had of stayed any later and worked my mom would have worried to death and have probably been mad at me ;[ so I told my boss I couldn't that I had to get home. She said ok and seemed fine with it...but...I just hope that didn't hurt me in getting more/less hours. She had just now given me more hours this week than she has in a long time.. what do you think?

[Genny]

Yea, I told my mom I'm going to remind her every day I go to work until she calls and I get my check-that's just not right-I didn't work 2 weeks for nothing. It's so frustrating!

[Genny]

Just thought I'd let you know...I got my check! yayyyy! I asked my manager about it again to see if she had called yet the other day and she said no she still hasn't called...and my other manager asked what was wrong and I explained itto him and he went and looked and found it in the safe...someone hadt stuck it in there...so I'm so glad!!! lol...I've got it now ;]