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Temps treated like $#!t
Apr. 30th, 2013 07:00 amI'll put up with quite a bit, as I'm desperate for work, but they are giving us temps a lot of $#!t. For some effed up reason, whomever is in charge of scheduling whom works when never communicates this information, and we temps are never told. I've heard temps getting yelled at for not showing up for their scheduled shift, when they were never told to ... and at the same time, others told to show up for a shift do so only to discover they aren't scheduled, won't get paid and have wasted gas money ... this happened to me today. I was told Friday by the client company, JC Penney, that there would be no work Monday but I would be needed Tuesday (TODAY) at 6 a.m. I checked my e-mail this morning, had no updates, showed up today at 6 a.m. and not only had the shift been moved back to 8 a.m., but I wasn't even on the list. I burned $7 in gas for the round trip to JC Penney. :/
My folks of course insist there's some magical labor law requiring 2 hour "show up compensation" and while that is standard at a lot of places -- even for temps, as I got when I temped at Nintendo's North Bend facility several years back -- it actually isn't a requirement; I checked the government's Labor & Industries website and its one of their Question & Answers ... "A business is not required to pay workers if they report for their shift but are told they are not needed that day. Only actual hours worked must be paid."
Nonetheless, I am peeved. I am -$7 for the day. :/
In other news, I am even more tired and groggy all the time, even though I've really upped my caffeine intake to include morning coffee and a Diet Mt. Dew at each break when I work ... and its worsened my absent-mindedness. :/ I broke off our newspaper delivery box when I was backing into my parking spot a couple weeks ago, and I left my cell phone in my pocket when my mother did laundry to predictable results ... yup, dead cell phone. :/ I am trying the dry-it-out-in-rice trick, hopefully it can be recovered from that but for the next couple of days at least (and longer if it proves unrecoverable) I have no cell phone. :/ Not that I use it much, but it is the # I give out when filling out job applications. :/ The temp agency, though, prefers to use e-mail and they even said, a couple weeks ago, that e-mail would be their primary means of contacting us temps to inform them of shift changes (not, as I said, that they are providing us with accurate or timely info via e-mail either :/).
My folks of course insist there's some magical labor law requiring 2 hour "show up compensation" and while that is standard at a lot of places -- even for temps, as I got when I temped at Nintendo's North Bend facility several years back -- it actually isn't a requirement; I checked the government's Labor & Industries website and its one of their Question & Answers ... "A business is not required to pay workers if they report for their shift but are told they are not needed that day. Only actual hours worked must be paid."
Nonetheless, I am peeved. I am -$7 for the day. :/
In other news, I am even more tired and groggy all the time, even though I've really upped my caffeine intake to include morning coffee and a Diet Mt. Dew at each break when I work ... and its worsened my absent-mindedness. :/ I broke off our newspaper delivery box when I was backing into my parking spot a couple weeks ago, and I left my cell phone in my pocket when my mother did laundry to predictable results ... yup, dead cell phone. :/ I am trying the dry-it-out-in-rice trick, hopefully it can be recovered from that but for the next couple of days at least (and longer if it proves unrecoverable) I have no cell phone. :/ Not that I use it much, but it is the # I give out when filling out job applications. :/ The temp agency, though, prefers to use e-mail and they even said, a couple weeks ago, that e-mail would be their primary means of contacting us temps to inform them of shift changes (not, as I said, that they are providing us with accurate or timely info via e-mail either :/).
