"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 8/6/2016 9:04 PM, cshenk wrote:
>> Cheryl wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>
>>> On 7/26/2016 3:48 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>
>>>> She'd get dressed, drive to work, only to have them tell her that
>>>> she wasn't needed that day. When she tried to call ahead of time to
>>>> see if she was needed, they told her that she wasn't allowed to
>>>> call them. Or on the few occasions that she did work, they'd tell
>>>> her that she had to stay late but wouldn't allow her to call and
>>>> tell us this. This of course left her dad and I wondering where she
>>>> was. The only thing we could do was drive there and see if her car
>>>> was outside. He did call once to see if she was still there and she
>>>> got in trouble for him calling.
>>>
>>> I'm sorry Julie but I find this very hard to believe. You might have
>>> answered it later because as you can tell I'm not replying to a
>>> current post because I've just been too busy. They wouldn't allow an
>>> 18 year old to call home to say she has to work late? No fk'n way is
>>> that happening anywhere.
>>
>> Agreed. This is bogus.
>>
> IF it happened to be true, the first thing to do is file a complaint with
> the local branch of the county Department of Labor. How can a business
> employ teenagers who live at home and not allow them to call their parents
> if they're being asked to work late? Doesn't make a lick of sense.

Oh come on. Seriously? They were not in violation of ANYTHING! I take it
that you didn't work as a teen? I did. My schedule at the time though was
open ended. I had a start time. No end time.
>
> It also doesn't make sense that Angela could not call where she worked to
> find out if she was on the schedule. I've never ever heard of a company
> doing business that way, not even a small Mom & Pop type place.

Doesn't matter if it makes sense or not. That's what happened and that's why
nobody we know works there now. It wasn't a mom and pop place. If I gave the
name, you'd know it. I won't do that though. They're getting enough bad
press from Yelp and the like.

And you totally misread what I said. She WAS on the schedule so they
expected her to show up for work. But then when she did show up, they'd say
that they decided they didn't need her so she should go home. That's when I
told her that she should call first and confirm that she would in fact be
needed. But she was told that she could not do this. And no, I did not ask
the establishment about this. I know quite a few people who were employed by
them. This is what they did.

When I lived on Cape Cod, I had applied for work at a dry cleaner. I did
mention this before and countless people misread what I said. But in a
nutshell, they could only guarantee me 10 hours of work per week. But I was
still expected to be up and dressed for work by 8:00 a.m. every morning. And
I had to sit at home, ready to leave at a moment's notice for work anywhere
on the Cape. So from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., I had to sit there waiting
in case I was needed. I also was not allowed to smoke or wear perfume during
those house lest I did get called in and offend a customer. I just laughed
and turned that job right down.

Do you think they found an employee who was willing to do that? Nope. And
yet this was the kind of crap a lot of places there tried to do. They could
probably get away with it too because jobs were hard to come by there. An
office supply store wanted me to use my own car after hours for no pay to
deliver stuff for them. Again, nope.