I’ve had some serious issues with my typical shift manager lately. I work at a local McDonalds, and run into this problem nearly every day.
She’s a few months pregnant, and is getting incredibly snappy and rude to me. I’m so scared of being written up by her, that I’ve been messing things up latr. Instead of patiently telling me what I’ve done wrong, she screams and yells at me. And threatens to write ne up.
Today, she made me nervous and scared, and started yelling at me, causing me to burst into tears at my register, in front of my customers. I couldn’t even clean myself up, cuz if I left my register, she’d yell at me again, and possibly write me up.
After my shift ended,( I had a 2-7pm shift) she counted my register drawer out. I was $2.00 short. I told her I could pay it off come Tuesday, which is when I’m back next. She told me I had to either pay it now, or get a write up. I looked in my wallet, and I had no cash. I told her I’d Just take the write up, and let it be. She then promptly pulled out a write up, that she had apparently typed up earlier, for apparently cooking up too many fries. She said I dropped too many into the fry basket, and that I should’ve known better. I didn’t know I had changed cooked up too many, no one let me know. Not my manager, nor fellow coworker. Typically, someone lets you know, you get a mild scolding, and that’s that.
I’m the first to get written up for this.
I signed the stinking write up, and she still told me I needed to pay the $2.00 shortage on my drawer. I told her I didn’t have the money. She said I needed to ask my folks for cash. I let her know I wasn’t driven to work, I rode my bike. She told me,” I don’t care, just get me the money.”
I left, and once I got far enough away from my McDonalds, I fell into a bench, and promptly started to wail.
Mind you, my drawer has been short before, more than $2.00 .and I always pay it off within a week. And I’ve never EVER had the threat of being written up due to a short drawer. Even from this manager.
This manager is quite inconsistent with her actions. In a normal instance, I’d shove it off as pregnancy hormones, and leave it be. But this is getting out of hand.
She’s written me up twice now, and I have another write up on my record too. One more, and I could be suspended and fired.
I’m scared of talking to her about her actions, because she’s known for her temper, and often takes out her anger on me. When she gets mad, I’m often the scapegoat. I get blamed for a lot. She threatens to write me up almost daily, for stuff that the others do.
What can I do? I’m stumped
