Paige Wakefield's Observations

Since I only work part time I don’t get paid holidays, and I don’t get overtime or holiday pay.  So I find it annoying when I am scheduled to work on a holiday – I am paid straight time.  The full time employees would get paid double time if they worked a holiday!  I don’t think should be legal!  I think anyone who works on a holiday should get paid double time, don’t you?

I’m sure you realize that I am ranting about this because I am scheduled to work for Thanksgiving, but will only be getting straight pay for it!  I feel cheated.

I was very upset to discover that since the store didn’t have any hours for me for a couple of weeks I was “auto-terminated” without any notice at all! I found out about it when I was called in to substitute for someone who called in sick. I went in and punched in and worked without any hitches at all. But when payday came, there was no check for me! When I asked my boss to check into it, he called the district headquarters and found out that I had been terminated!

So I had to go through the entire rehire process, getting drug tested, etc and fill out paperwork and such. It was a real drag – it took two weeks! And during those two weeks I had to turn down several hundred dollars worth of assignments because I was not allowed to work until the rehire process was finished! What a pain in the neck that was! I hope that never happens again!