Manager at understaffed pizzeria gets scolded for taking a 10 minute break, gets scheduled hours reduced: 'You know what? Keep the schedule. I quit'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Sep 8, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

We rarely take a moment to appreciate the overworked managers who have to answer to the ridiculous demands of the higher-ups. 

Here, we have the manager of an understaffed pizzeria who was taking on the responsibilities of virtually everyone after both cooks showed up late. He took a moment to collect himself after working on his feet and going non-stop all day. His break was literally for only ten minutes, but the owner took note and prepared his payback.

The next day, the manager could not help but notice that he was scheduled for far fewer hours than what is typical for a work week, including having off for all of Thursday. Not only does this mean he would be making much less that week, but also it's even worse for the workflow of the whole staff without him. Keep scrolling below to see what happened when he gave his boss a piece of his mind. For more, check out this post about a boss who stole their employee's ideas.

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    I sat down for 10 minutes on a busy Thursday and got my hours reduced. So I quit.
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    I worked at a really pizzeria. Opay, Obenefits. I was a shift manager, and we had gotten a new store manager about a month ago.
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    The store manager was awful and got consistently worse. Last Thursday, a football day (in Texas!) he scheduled 2 drivers outside of their availability. I let the first go because she asked to, and because I had another coming in.
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    Turned out the one replacing her was also outside his availability so he went home too--without clearing it with me. I also had two cooks, one was 30 minutes late,
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    the other two hours late. I don't know why the second hadn't been fired yet either, he was consistently late. I had another driver who was doing videos because the DM told him he needed them done ASAP. I
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    was cutting pizzas with maybe 4 people in the store total and I was getting overwhelmed so I sat down for 10 minutes because if I didn't I was going to walk out the door.
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    Today I see the schedule for this week posted (because SM is chronically late about posting it). I've been scheduled for only 20 hours, and not working Thursday at all apparently. I asked him why.
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    He said because I sat down for 5 minutes, he's reducing my hours and I'm no longer working Thursdays (which is such a good idea and definitely won't make labor worse on Thursday, ❤). He
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    said "well that's how the schedule's gonna be" when I explained we were understaffed due to his poor scheduling and chronic lack of communication. I'm tired. I'm sick of dealing with him, all for 11.50 an hour. I tell him--you know what? Keep the schedule. I quit.
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    Yeah I could've threatened him more. Gone through with the week of...230$, maybe. Or waited to be fired and filed for unemployment-- if I would even have made enough to get it. But honestly, I feel more relieved than I've felt in a long while.
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    pegasusCK 14 hr. ago Cutting someone's hours to make them quit let's you claim unemployment. It's called "constructive dismissal". You can look
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    it up. Employers do this all the time to try to get people to quit so they won't have to pay unemployment and it actually works most of the time because people don't know it counts as constructive dismissal to get the other person to quit.
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    If you have proof your hours were cut you can apply for unemployment.
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    thefinalgoat OP. 14 hr. ago I have his texts, yes. I'm specifically not deleting them because I figure they'd make good evidence.
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    Highlandgoblin. 12 hr. ago Take Screenshots! Reply Share 313 ☐ Reply thefinalgoat OP. 12 hr. ago Already on it!
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    MisScillaneous 14 hr. ago Not sure what it's like in other states but I'm pretty sure you're allowed a 10 minute paid break. I have had to do this exact thing and just let the team handle it while I go scream in the alley. File for unemployment. Watch the others trickle out of there soon after. Good luck!
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    thefinalgoat OP. 14 hr. ago I'm in Texas, and breaks--even lunch breaks--aren't legally required. Texas workers. And yeah I'm filing right now. Thank you!
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