u/BettaFishCL

I recently got moved to management after working for my location for 2.5 years. We are very short staffed right now, so I am quite literally the only person in the building who is able to bartend. That being said, I'm bartending most days and managing on whatever days are left. The days I don't bartend, we have no bartender.

In the mornings, there is no takeout person, so I clock in as takeout and make $17 an hour from it. At night, I have to clock in as normal, which is $7.50 an hour + tip out + bar tips.

Here is my problem. No. One. Comes. To. The. Bar. Nobody. I would take tables, but even the servers are getting no tables. They're making no money, plus having to tip me out. People who are going out to eat anyway are spending the least amount of money possible and tipping nothing.

I don't know if this is worth noting, but last week I was scheduled 36 hours. I had to call in on a managing day, so I ended up working only about 27 hours.

That being said, for the 27 hours I worked last week, I got about $370. That's including tipout and any tips I happened to make at the bar.

That equates to around $13 an hour, which is $2 below minimum wage ($15). For all of the work I end up doing in both bartending and management, that's absolutely ridiculous and I don't know how anyone is meant to survive on this. Plus, isn't the company meant to pay the difference between what you made and minimum wage???

Is anyone else on the same boat here?

I (21F) got the tetanus shot around 3 hours ago now, but at around the 2 hour mark, I noticed that my tongue felt too big for my mouth. I started to feel a slight panic. I am allergic to Lamictal and I had that similar, tongue swelling feeling. I called my mom, then I called my doctor's office. They told me to take some benedryl and go to the ER. So, that is exactly what I did. I reported all of my symptoms to the nurses, and they had me drink some water to make sure I could still swallow. It was a bit difficult to swallow, but it kept getting better as time went on.

That being said.... I don't think I actually needed to go to the ER, or even call my doctor. I suspect that my anxiety made it feel like I actually had swelling in my tongue, when in reality, I was just overthinking it.

Has this ever happened to anyone else?