u/JustGotEvicted

TL;DR - My partners manager won't change the timesheet to reflect coming in early, what resources should I give them to remedy this?

This isn't for me but rather for my partner, they've worked at Bath & Body Works for about a year now, and so far from everything that Ive heard management is horrible

Ive heard countless rant sessions and stories about how the management doesnt do things according to policy and isnt respectful of time but these past few months it's been excessive

Today my partner was scheduled for a shift from 10AM-2PM, relatively short shift as they work part time, and their manager asked for them to come in at 9AM the night before

They came at 9 driving through a thunderstorm just to find that the manager slept in and would be running late, and said to just help the delivery people (who were waiting about an hour) to put the freight up

The manager got there around 9:45 then the day proceeded as normal until 1:30 when the manager decided they were going to go help another store and told my partner they were going to have to stay "later" with only one other coworker in the store and didn't give any estimate

Both of them called the manager every 45 minutes or so asking for an update with no response until about 5 when the manager got back

Before my partner left they asked if the manager could fix their pay time to reflect coming in early and she said, "I guess I can put an extra 10 minutes on there" instead of the full hour worked

This manager has been an issue consistently having arguments with customers, men she's talking to coming into the store to talk or hang out, and nearly constantly on the phone yelling or laughing in the back room

My partner is very non-confrontational and unless given all the resources and directions will most likely not take any action but I believe this is unacceptable, what are the recourses and rights my partner has to get treated better?

TL;DR - How do I get faster at detailing Construction Equipment? Boss says I need to do it in 45 mins.

So I started my new job about a month ago at a heavy machinery rental and sales company and its been good, decent pay, decent coworkers, and I feel like the workload isn't that bad.

The problem comes when the workload is bad.

I (on average) take about 3-4 hours cleaning out any general large machinery, this includes Bulldozers, Excavators, Dump trucks, etc. My job is to fully power wash, de-grease, and coat the outside, then do a full automotive-style detail on the interior. Coming from having done auto detailing in the past it's definitely different but as for time I feel like I'm doing pretty good. Everybody that I work with has been saying that I do a great job and everything is pristine when it comes out of the wash bay but they all say the same thing- I take too long.

So how do I deal with this? They say its expected because I'm new to take a few hours but they say by this point I should be down to an hour or less, that just doesn't seem feasible to me and I've yet to be shown an example of someone doing that. And when I questioned how clean it needs to be (to get my time down) I got the response, "Clean it until it's clean" Super helpful, thanks.

I've been shown nothing since the day I got here other than, "Here's your compressor, here's your wand, and here's your degreaser, have at it!"

Sorry for the block of text but I like to add background.

Does anybody have any advice for better cleaning for large machinery like this? And how did you start to get your time down?