u/LoomisCenobite

UK 1988

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My bosses cut me down to 2 shifts a week for 3 weeks to "discipline" me after letting go of our only other decent employee we had and hiring like 4 new people who don't know what they are doing... right after doing this both of my bosses went on vacation for the rest of the month.

When I asked for context I was provided none and haven't received a response back for that text in like 3 weeks.

Right before this all happened my bosses kept trying to have sit down conversations with me trying to coax some sort of reason or context for firing the other employee... and I refused to really give any since I didn't have personal issues with this coworker...he was the first person I met when I started this job and I always got along with him.

It became blatantly apparent that their reasoning for needing to let this dude go wasn't performance based (customers still ask for him and he was like the main dude before I started) and was a more personal prejudice/racism since this was the only employee of color and they would blame him for literally everything... even when he had days off. His brother also used to work for the company and abandoned it for more lucrative work because of how weird his interactions started to become with management.

My hours return to normal in like 2 weeks, my bosses said this would only be a 2 week thing but apparently didn't bother to realize they actually fucked my wages for 3 weeks straight.

I would probably make more money from unemployment at this point. However the job market and unemployment system where I'm currently living is absolutely garbage (Texas) so I'm not really sure what to do.

Considering I made over 15k in my personal sales alone last month.... this has just been a huge slap in the face... Especially since I didn't really do anything wrong and have no clue why I'm really having to deal with this shit at the moment. It has nothing to do with my actual job or personal performance... yet I'm losing money over it.

Seems like a fake way to reduce their overhead, or make me compliant with ideology I do not agree or identify with... I didn't want to get involved it's not my place, but why the fuck should I be punished for not wanting to be involved?

I have work tomorrow night and it feels like I'm spitting in my own face just by showing up at this point. I have too many personal expenses to just up and quit and potentially not get my unemployment. The whole situation is just wrong... I don't even like living in Texas and without work there's shit-all to do to really improve that feeling.