fuck this job.com

Ran into a former coworker at a bar last night. Apparently he used to work for the NY department of labor and he knows a thing or two about fair workplace policies. Anyway, he once saw a suit at a restaurant where the employees won. They were being sent home from training for having improperly ironed uniforms, thus denying them the opportunity to properly train for their job when they made errors during training. Well, that's exactly what they did to us when they opened the new restaurant. They were so insistant that our shirts be wrinkle-free that they sent my aforementioned coworker home every day of training to iron his shirt - even after he had it professionally dry cleaned and pressed and had the receipts to prove it. They tried to send me home for one wrinkle on the back of my shirt. I refused because I had a half hour commute, on a wet winter day, during which I would be in my car with the heat on, wearing a coat and a seatbelt. Of COURSE there may be a wrinkle on my shirt.

Anyway, he decided to see if he could press charges based on this and many, many other things that went on in that place (and still do, to my knowledge), such as forcing employees to work double shifts with no break, not allowing employees to order food OR bring in their own food to eat while at work, not allowing employees to change clothes at any time (we had to come in fully in uniform and leave fully in uniform, and change clothes at the gas station down the street if we had anywhere to be immediately before or after work), telling employees not to wear coats in the dead of winter because they didn't have enough room for them, complete lack of an employee break room, doing official write-ups for minor mistakes, threatening to fire people over infractions that definitely didn't warrant that serious of a punishment.....and there's more.

He wasn't sure how it would go over, but apparently two days later the government decided to officially investigate the charges and they'll probably interview everyone who has worked at that restaurant since it opened in January.

I laughed my ass off. I would've bought him a beer if he wasn't on his third already and had to drive home. Revenge is so sweet.