Lies and deceit!
In the past month or two my boss has accused me- wrongly- of lying to him. Twice. I have a menial job working in a bakery at a supermarket. One of my tasks is to make the place nice and clean, which involves brushing the crumbs from the shelves. Every night I'm on I get that little brush, get down on my knees and I brush those crumbs away. My knees ache, my back aches and my black trousers get covered in flour so now I have white knees and look silly.

However, come morning time the bakers, who have been slaving away making delicious hot rolls, put them out in the baskets. The baskets above the shelves. The shelves that I swept. Which are now covered in a whole bunch of new crumbs.

Yes, you can easily see what happens now. I have been "spoken to" several times, all in front of customers, about how I do not do my job and how I should "just listen to him, just listen!". I put my foot down and did not listen. Instead I got him to listen. He didn't.

He still does not believe I sweep those damned crumbs away every night. So now every night I get a witness to see my swept shelves or to see me sweeping. I also have another supervisor who told me of what the morning bakers do and stated that she has indeed seen the shelves before they did this, and they were spotless. I'm biding my time now, waiting for the chance to bring out my big guns. I will expect an apology.

The other thing I will not get an apology for. As I've mentioned on here sometimes I get migraines a lot. At the start of the year I went through a really bad patch and was off work twice in a few weeks for a day each time. One of those was a day I had asked to swap.

He doesn't believe I'm ill, convinced I'm hungover even though I have never drank. I've never been drunk in my life. (I know, shocking! I'm a student to boot.) Even after bringing in the note from the doctors he asked me why I didn't just go to the doctors to see why I was like that and get it fixed. Did I miss something? I DID go to the doctors! And there's no cure!

Apologies for length and boringness! Apart from that my work can be ace. Everyone is a right good giggle and in the bakery I'm all by myself so I can sing and dance with the bread racks to my wee heart's content! My shoes also make it more fun as they collect all the flour and I can now skate around the shop floor. Customers look at me funny. =D
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 19:22, 2 replies)

Ugh!
Full sympathy on the migraines! I get them sometimes too, and they pretty much cripple me for a day or so. Thankfully my employer is understanding, but I'm sure there are still people who think it's 'just a really bad headache'. Bleh! :|
(Draco Rattus ate all the pies on, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 19:37, closed)

put in a formal complaint about the migraines
tell them you're suffering and still coming into work, all because this fucker is making light of your illness, which has been recognized by your doctor. this is causing you stress and could lead to more time off.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 19:45, closed)