I don’t want to upset my Arab-born and bred boss at work. He is a Sandwich Nazi and would crush me into oblivion and/or have my car blown up if I upset him. Well…ok. Maybe not blow up my car, but certainely crush me into oblivion because he is tall and strong and I am short, fat and weak.
I have several issues I’d like to address with him but am unsure as to how to go about it. They are:
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the breaks/lunches and lack therof. Usually, I don’t get a break/or lunch unless I beg a mgr on my hands and knees (unless a certain mgr is on duty who seems to be more considerate of short, fat, hungry, pissed off white chicks like myself).
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the timeliness of which the schedule for the next week is put out. The workweek is from Monday through Sunday, with the schedule not being put out for the next week until late Sunday evening close to closing time (around 6 pm or so).
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The fact that it is often hard to tell whether or not you are going to even get the number of hours you are SUPPOSED to get during any given week. I am a full time employee which you’d think would mean I’d get about 40 hrs per week. This is not so. I can (and do sometimes) get anywhere from 25-40 per week, never sure how many per week I am going to get.
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The effectiveness of asking for time off. I asked off for two days this week a month ago, which I DID get. But I was uncertain as to whether or not I was even going to get them off until last Friday afternoon. I realize that time off is a request, not a given, even if you ask for it in the proper amount of time ahead of time (usually 2 wks or so).
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He calls me ‘honey’. Not in a gross, lecherous, wanna sex me up way but just because it’s ‘his’ way. He calls all the girls that and while that reassures me, it’s slightly disturbing. I am unsure of how to approach him and tell him how skeeved out I am by him doing this, even if it IS a nonsexual thing.
IDBB