Working past finishing hours

MissSarah1972

I can bet if you asked to leave 15 mins early to go somewhere like the doctors your pay would be stopped 15 mins

Sambucus_Nigra

McKneff wrote: »

Go get your coat at 4pm.

Pick up your cards at 4.15.

I know it isnt fair, but they can get rid of you for no reason at all in your fist 2 years of employment. Think how many there are in the queue just waiting to take over from you.

As the OP has been there nearly a year - this would be 1 year.

OP - how long until you have been there a year?

Daedalus

Grimbal wrote: »

Maybe NMW at the moment, but that's not to say that a bit of hard work & willingness wouldn't pull them up out of the crowd & improve their prospects surely? My place of work hires people on all pay scales and their wage reflects their aptitude, ability & results produced. If they have improved themselves over the last year (both/either in terms of "results" and "behaviours", their wage is adjusted accordingly

If you have a dogsbody mentality, you'll always be a dogsbody.

Yes but that won't be relevant to someone who is in education and just doing a saturday job, it is highly unlikely they will be looking for a career in JJB sports, they don't care really about 'impressing' their boss in order to get a better job, they don't plan to stick around.

It is completely different to a career job, even if that career job is NMW. Working in the media can often start at NMW, but you want to progress and will put the work in and allow your boss to take liberties.

McKneff

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

As the OP has been there nearly a year - this would be 1 year.

OP - how long until you have been there a year?

My apologies, i missed the 'nearly a year' I will amend my post just for clarification.

agrinnall

Osarkon wrote: »

Have to ask to leave?

If your shift is 12-4, leave at 4. You shouldn't need to ask. If they want you to stay on, they need to come and ask you before you leave, not the other way around.

This, for sure. Although it might be worth putting off doing it until you have completed the 1 year service.

Sagz_2

I see 2 ways of looking at this:
1. shut up and put up with it, keep your job
2. question it and run the risk of not being employed for very much longer.

Me? I'd explain how sorry I was and that I 'have' to be somewhere else at the end of every shift (2nd job, sick relative etc ) for a month or 2 and look for a better job.

DiscruntledShopworker

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

As the OP has been there nearly a year - this would be 1 year.

OP - how long until you have been there a year?

I've very recently passed being there a year, a few days ago.

Yorkie1

Isn't there a NMW hotline which you can ring if you think you're being paid less than the NMW when all your hours are being taken into account?

Sharon87

This use to happen to us at Asda on a Sunday. Tills shut at 4pm, but obviously not everyone's out the shop by then and we're still putting in the last transactions, or waiting for the managers to lock our tills. Always was 4:10 or later when I finished.

Same in another shop, we were asked to come in 10 minutes earlier unpaid so they could allocate us our duties for the day.

Seems to be what retail does sometimes! It is unfair especially if you're on minimum wage.

justjohn

i used to work in a factory and we had shift change overs. Company expected you 5-10 mins early. (unpaid)

I never did it, unfortunately the rest of the workforce did not seem to object to coming in 5 mins early. i was the bad guy...

matter of principle.

You scratch my back ill scratch yours...
if your bullied and pressured theres not much you can do, especially if you are a "disposable worker"