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dragonlady7Yesterday's huge quantities of sleep were nice, but last night after going to bed at 2 I awoke at 8 again and couldn't get back to sleep. I think my body just doesn't like to sleep all in one chunk anymore. This is a problem now that I work and don't get to nap anymore. We shall see how this plays out.
The cold's not gone yet but I bet it's going. I have much to do today, but am purposely lounging around not doing much so far.
But here I have for y'all, any of y'all who are still following with the Drama of Employment, here I have some interesting information. The other day at work, I knew my register was running low on paper, and I began to hunt around the bar for more paper. (Turns out you can only get it from the office, but I didn't know that yet.) So I was rummaging through the various cabinets in the back bar, and I found me an envelope full of some papers. I pulled out one-- they were thick stapled packets of white paper. I turned it over to look at the front and Lo! It was the agreement between the hotel workers' union and the airport concession company, detailing all the policies for treatment of union employees, as well as all the criteria for determining when employees are eligible to join the union.
Please bear in mind that they told me nothing at my interview save that I would have to join the union because it's a closed shop.
1) The wage for a bartender is $6.15 an hour. However. That wage becomes effective after... wait for it...
one continuous year of service.
In my interview, Tom the Manager made no mention of that, mentioning only $6.15 as though it were my starting wage. I earn $5.40, and only after six months will i earn $6.
False Pretenses Number One!
2) An employee must have worked more than 6 continuous months of service scheduled 120 hours or more a month before he or she is eligible for holiday pay. All those times I kept myself from freaking out on Christmas Eve with the thought that I was getting time and a half? Well, I wasn't. All the fun I'll be having on New Year's Eve night and New Year's Day day? Straight time, baby. In fact, Easter? Straight time.
Added: Here's something I missed-- it specifies 120 hours a month, and I just did the math and I'm working about 95 hours a month. So.... I will never become eligible for holidays, vacations, or pay raises unless they give me more hours. Swell.
3) An employee must work 60 days, as in come in to work on 60 separate days, before he or she can join the union. So, it's not that in two months I can get health insurance. It's that in twenty weeks I'll be eligible to pay 25% of my premiums on top of the unspecified union dues.
Twenty weeks is not soon.
False Pretenses Number Two! Made it sound like it was immediate! It's not!
Oh, and here's a good one.
4) In addition to a meal break, employees scheduled to work more than four (4) hours in a work day shall receive a ten (10) minute rest break.
That is funny. That doesn't happen. But then, I've worked a lot of retail/service jobs, and the breaks? Never happen, unless you smoke. And if they happen because you smoke, it's only because you're such a ferocious addict that you claw and fight until they do happen. For a nonsmoker like me? Can't be fucking bothered. So, no breaks.
But, I knew that. If the union employees don't care enough to fight for it, then I don't.
5) No mention anywhere of being paid a separate rate for working at the US Air Club, where you don't make tips. So that's still unresolved. I was told I'd be compensated. I have not been. If that also kicks in after a year of service, I'll kick someone's head in myself, because after a year of service you have enough seniority that you'll never work in there anyway.
So, False Pretense Number Three! No mention of that being only something for people who've worked long enough that they never go in there anyway!
Anyone lawyerly know any good scary bits of employment law relating to being hired under false pretenses? They told me all kinds of things that aren't true, and if I hadn't found this here little packet by accident (I guarantee you that wasn't supposed to be left where I could find it; those compartments under the back bar are a netherworld of terrifying things where nobody goes) I wouldn't have found out. You can never find a manager to speak to him; they come by once in a while but it's almost always when you're busy, and the one chance I've had for a semi-private conversation with a manager, he spent the whole time telling me how the TV worked, and when he asked if I had any questions, i noticed I had customers instead. (Though that is when I got the offhand "you join the union after 60 days" remark, I had no time to ask about the club pay rate, which is really the one that's bothering me.) I am despairing of finding some time to ask about these things, and I am even more despairing of whether they'll take me seriously or not.
They don't tell you these things, but they do take you out for three hours and make you watch videos about being courteous to people. Yup yup.
The cold's not gone yet but I bet it's going. I have much to do today, but am purposely lounging around not doing much so far.
But here I have for y'all, any of y'all who are still following with the Drama of Employment, here I have some interesting information. The other day at work, I knew my register was running low on paper, and I began to hunt around the bar for more paper. (Turns out you can only get it from the office, but I didn't know that yet.) So I was rummaging through the various cabinets in the back bar, and I found me an envelope full of some papers. I pulled out one-- they were thick stapled packets of white paper. I turned it over to look at the front and Lo! It was the agreement between the hotel workers' union and the airport concession company, detailing all the policies for treatment of union employees, as well as all the criteria for determining when employees are eligible to join the union.
Please bear in mind that they told me nothing at my interview save that I would have to join the union because it's a closed shop.
1) The wage for a bartender is $6.15 an hour. However. That wage becomes effective after... wait for it...
one continuous year of service.
In my interview, Tom the Manager made no mention of that, mentioning only $6.15 as though it were my starting wage. I earn $5.40, and only after six months will i earn $6.
False Pretenses Number One!
2) An employee must have worked more than 6 continuous months of service scheduled 120 hours or more a month before he or she is eligible for holiday pay. All those times I kept myself from freaking out on Christmas Eve with the thought that I was getting time and a half? Well, I wasn't. All the fun I'll be having on New Year's Eve night and New Year's Day day? Straight time, baby. In fact, Easter? Straight time.
Added: Here's something I missed-- it specifies 120 hours a month, and I just did the math and I'm working about 95 hours a month. So.... I will never become eligible for holidays, vacations, or pay raises unless they give me more hours. Swell.
3) An employee must work 60 days, as in come in to work on 60 separate days, before he or she can join the union. So, it's not that in two months I can get health insurance. It's that in twenty weeks I'll be eligible to pay 25% of my premiums on top of the unspecified union dues.
Twenty weeks is not soon.
False Pretenses Number Two! Made it sound like it was immediate! It's not!
Oh, and here's a good one.
4) In addition to a meal break, employees scheduled to work more than four (4) hours in a work day shall receive a ten (10) minute rest break.
That is funny. That doesn't happen. But then, I've worked a lot of retail/service jobs, and the breaks? Never happen, unless you smoke. And if they happen because you smoke, it's only because you're such a ferocious addict that you claw and fight until they do happen. For a nonsmoker like me? Can't be fucking bothered. So, no breaks.
But, I knew that. If the union employees don't care enough to fight for it, then I don't.
5) No mention anywhere of being paid a separate rate for working at the US Air Club, where you don't make tips. So that's still unresolved. I was told I'd be compensated. I have not been. If that also kicks in after a year of service, I'll kick someone's head in myself, because after a year of service you have enough seniority that you'll never work in there anyway.
So, False Pretense Number Three! No mention of that being only something for people who've worked long enough that they never go in there anyway!
Anyone lawyerly know any good scary bits of employment law relating to being hired under false pretenses? They told me all kinds of things that aren't true, and if I hadn't found this here little packet by accident (I guarantee you that wasn't supposed to be left where I could find it; those compartments under the back bar are a netherworld of terrifying things where nobody goes) I wouldn't have found out. You can never find a manager to speak to him; they come by once in a while but it's almost always when you're busy, and the one chance I've had for a semi-private conversation with a manager, he spent the whole time telling me how the TV worked, and when he asked if I had any questions, i noticed I had customers instead. (Though that is when I got the offhand "you join the union after 60 days" remark, I had no time to ask about the club pay rate, which is really the one that's bothering me.) I am despairing of finding some time to ask about these things, and I am even more despairing of whether they'll take me seriously or not.
They don't tell you these things, but they do take you out for three hours and make you watch videos about being courteous to people. Yup yup.
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