I worked for 7-Eleven for only about two months; it just seemed a lot longer because I was doing a daily journal.
Should I be expecting a W-2 from them so I can do my taxes? I haven’t gotten one yet.
You definitely should have gotten one.
As @hajario says, you certainly should have. Expanding on that …
Since you have not, you should know that every number you need for your tax return should have been included on your last paycheck if the payroll company gave you a comprehensive paystub/pay report.
Assuming you had no benefits like medical or 401K, all you really need to file your tax return is the TIN of your employer, your total gross wages paid and total withholding for income tax, SS tax, and Medicare tax. Which numbers ought to be on a report that came with each check, including your last.
See here for more:
Of course if you were paid in cash or by a plain check written from the store’s business account, all bets are off. These might indicate they have been stealing from you/the IRS by withholding your taxes from your pay but not sending the money to the IRS. That is a bad situation. But not uncommon at the murky bottom of small business behavior.
Another unlikely possibility is that they never withheld or remitted taxes at all, and you check was for the full amount of your gross wages. If so, you still should report that income and pay tax on it.
Noot trying to trigger your anxiety, but you need to be proactive getting with the manager / owner to get your W2 or at least to understand why you won’t ever get one.
If you learn that they withheld the tax money from you but didn’t send it to the IRS, there is a process you can do with the IRS to deal with that. Come back here for further advice if that’s what you learn.
Note that you can file a request for an automatic extension with the IRS so you have another 6 months to deal with all this. There is no need to panic that this problem must be fixed by Tuesday. Not at all.
See here for filing an extension. It’s real easy and approval is totally guaranteed:
But if your employees have made at least $600 in the tax year, you’ll need to send them a W-2 by the January 31 deadline. Even if someone makes less than $600, that person must receive a W-2 if any income, Medicare or Social Security taxes were withheld (taken out of their paychecks).
Late add. If you come to believe your employer has been lying or cheating on you / the IRS, this seems like good advice:
The sooner the IRS knows they’re the bad guy, not you, the better the eventual outcome.
If your company uses a payroll service such as ADP your W2 should be available online through their website if you can log in there.
When you started there, in all the paperwork you signed, there may have been a release that said your W-2 will only be available online. One tax season I worked in a call center and we got literally hundreds of calls each day from employees (present and former) who were completely unaware that their employer wasn’t mailing their W-2 anymore.
Damn. That’s probably it. Silly me.
Any company with semi-modern systems is going to default to online only access for all stuff that was traditionally snail-mailed.
It looks like 7-Elevens are (all? mostly?) independently operated so employment paperwork would come from that franchisee.
But certainly they use ADT or something similar for their payroll.
I just mentioned it in case OP overlooked a letter with an unfamiliar return address.
That would be alarming.
I see what you did there. Well played! 
I would think they do and it may be (not sure) that the W-2 is available via electronic means and not a paper copy.
The OP could check with 7-Eleven HR and see if they can access their W2 via ADP’s website. Worth checking.
My employer uses ADP and I know I can get docs electronically from them (although I did get a paper copy of my W-2 mailed to me too).
Boooo. Lol
Thats interesting. I worked two hours of training one day last Dec. For a store in the mall. I hadn’t gotten around to filling out my w2 form that they had e mailed me. I received a check from their business.
Edited to add, sorry for bumping, it showed up in my feed looking like a recent thread.
I assume you meant W4, which instructs an employer how much tax to withhold. If you didn’t submit the W4, they probably don’t have your social security number and likely did not withhold income and payroll taxes.
From the IRS regarding when an employer needs to file a W2:
Who must file Form W-2.
You must file Form(s) W-2 if you have one or more employees to whom you made payments (including noncash payments) for the employees’ services in your trade or business during 2024.
Complete and file Form W-2 for each employee for whom any of the following applies (even if the employee is related to you).
- You withheld any income, social security, or Medicare tax from wages regardless of the amount of wages; or
- You would have had to withhold income tax if the employee had claimed no more than one withholding allowance (for 2019 or earlier Forms W-4) or had not claimed exemption from withholding on Form W-4; or
- You paid $600 or more in wages even if you did not withhold any income, social security, or Medicare tax.
So I would guess that those two hours of pay were not reported to the IRS.