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Strategically Unemployed
17 years ago
So I said to my pencil the other day
So I went in to work for my shift, and I see, lo and behold, I've been cut down to 25 hours a week.
In Ontario, 35 hours a week is what constitutes full time.
For the past 10 months, I've been scraping by on 30-32 hours a week, with the odd week here and there where I got 34 or so. So I called the boss up, asked if something was up, and I was promptly informed that she only needed me to fill in the gaps of the schedule and that I was not entitled to full time hours. I asked 'How so? You hired me on as full time.'
The answer?
"Well we said we hired you full time, we actually hired you as part time and we've been giving you the hours. So tough."
This is where I snapped, so I politely asked.
"Oh well, since we've got all the long weekend campers coming back early tonight, is there another supervisor that could come in to give me a hand keeping the staff working throughout the night?" (When there's 12 staff and one supervisor, on a night that is more than likely going to earn over $6,000 in less than $5 purchases from 5pm to 11pm, it gets insane)
"No, no one else can or will come in."
"Oh, well you're two people short."
"Two? I thought we were only one person short?"
"So? Tough it, I quit."
And now I'm jobless, however, the new rent a cop service in town is hiring anyone my age who's willing to work 48 hour weeks in a 4days on, 4 days off rotation, at $10 an hour. I can do that. :D
In Ontario, 35 hours a week is what constitutes full time.
For the past 10 months, I've been scraping by on 30-32 hours a week, with the odd week here and there where I got 34 or so. So I called the boss up, asked if something was up, and I was promptly informed that she only needed me to fill in the gaps of the schedule and that I was not entitled to full time hours. I asked 'How so? You hired me on as full time.'
The answer?
"Well we said we hired you full time, we actually hired you as part time and we've been giving you the hours. So tough."
This is where I snapped, so I politely asked.
"Oh well, since we've got all the long weekend campers coming back early tonight, is there another supervisor that could come in to give me a hand keeping the staff working throughout the night?" (When there's 12 staff and one supervisor, on a night that is more than likely going to earn over $6,000 in less than $5 purchases from 5pm to 11pm, it gets insane)
"No, no one else can or will come in."
"Oh, well you're two people short."
"Two? I thought we were only one person short?"
"So? Tough it, I quit."
And now I'm jobless, however, the new rent a cop service in town is hiring anyone my age who's willing to work 48 hour weeks in a 4days on, 4 days off rotation, at $10 an hour. I can do that. :D
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Kusanagi's stuff, it's pure awesome. 
In any case, doesn't sound like you needed that headache. Good luck in trying for that other job. Sounds like more fun anyways. :)
For the record, it's Dairy Queen. Overall, their corporate strategy is good, and they're cracking down on crap like this.
I just can't afford to wait or be stressed out anymore.
And for all you legal people out there, hiring someone under full time, then changing them to part time without notice is actually, and sadly, perfectly legal, as long as they changed it in their books, you could sue them and then they could just dismiss you in a court of law.
Now you'd think that the employment standards act would address this little issue, but it doesn't, because the government still wants businesses on their side, and if people think that will change in the next 50 years, your dreaming, cause the world is run by the generation where they still think that "Because I'm older..." which only really works til the ages of 18-25, where we learn that even the age just under us is actually going to be potentially smarter than us.
The reason for the 18-25 is cause by then we've learned all we can from the fossils known as our parents.