I enjoyed this more than the article I found it in - about Jimmy John's workers having noncompete clauses so I'm sharing this instead.
Speaking as a union shift worker, this is why unions exist. Give me a turnaround under 12 hours? That's time and a half. Make me work a 6th day? That's time and a half. Make me work a 7th day? That's doubletime. Make me work more than 8? Time and a half. Make me work more than 12? Double time. Make me work more than 16? you don't wanna know. Make me wait more than 6 hours for a meal? Meal penalty. Of course, this would make it a lot more expensive for Starbuck's to sell you coffee. Which would bring them in line with the little coffee shop down the corner, which actually has to look their employees in the eye when they're dicks to them. I haven't eaten or gotten a beverage from anywhere with over 200 locations in probably 10 years. You shouldn't either.
This sounds like my life. It's a good thing I don't have kids. Things were hard enough between me and my boyfriend before I got fired. I don't know how anyone could juggle multiple jobs with scheduling antics like that. Check out my schedule the weekend I left: That's about as many hours as I normally get in a week within the space of less than three days. I took that picture Tuesday night when I found out, on my second unscheduled surprise night shift of the week. I'm real fuckin glad they fired me Sunday morning. Don't think it's just big chains, smaller places do it too. The store I worked at pulled all the shit in the article and that kleinbl00 mentions but it's a local businesses with fewer than 20 locations. It's not a matter of profits, I know the numbers, they just kick us cause they know they can get away with it.
I spent all day doing optimization problems (one of which actually involved setting up a schedule so that the most employees possible have consecutive days off) and decide to relax a bit from all of that on Hubski... to stumble upon this article. The irony... It's a great article tho, poor woman :(