Hours finally cut

[Dano]

Get another job and tell your current manager it's a part time position that wont interfere with the 4 hours a week you do for them.

 

[Belmit]

Firstly, four hours per week? Unless you're on more than £12.50 an hour there are people on Jobseeker's Allowance who get more per week than you, for nothing! Surely there's something out there better than this, even if the work is comparitively crappy - four hours per week is barely a job.

Secondly, if my manager told me that if I left they'd make finding a job hell for me, I'd be speaking to their manager. That does actually fall under bullying in the workplace.

 

[Fourstar]

I don't quite get it. She obviously wants to keep you otherwise she would offer incentives to help you find the door. Namely references as the carrot along with the hour cuts stick.

Does she know you're good at the job but only need your skills 4hr/week or is it some kind of personal vendetta to make your life a living hell?

 

[shifty_uk]

Secondly, if my manager told me that if I left they'd make finding a job hell for me, I'd be speaking to their manager. That does actually fall under bullying in the workplace.

This is precisesly what I'll do but only after I've found another vacancy unfortunately.

I don't quite get it. She obviously wants to keep you otherwise she would offer incentives to help you find the door. Namely references as the carrot along with the hour cuts stick.

Does she know you're good at the job but only need your skills 4hr/week or is it some kind of personal vendetta to make your life a living hell?

Everyone had their hours cut. Yes, there's students at my workplace on 4 hours per week but I refused giving up my contract a few weeks back.

She's a nasty piece of work though. Just back from a glorious maternity leave period and now the whole workforce is desperate to leave.

Tough times.

 

[Paramount]

What do you do?

 

[shifty_uk]

What do you do?

When I started the job I specialised and ran departments throughout the store, when I went back to Uni I went part-time, moved to menswear and was simply known as an advanced sales person. I do everything throughout the store from merchandising to cashier.

 

[Berserker]

Firstly, four hours per week? Unless you're on more than £12.50 an hour there are people on Jobseeker's Allowance who get more per week than you, for nothing! Surely there's something out there better than this, even if the work is comparitively crappy - four hours per week is barely a job.

This. I'd be on to CAB and/or ACAS too to see if there might be a case to answer there. Finding a (genuine) witness at least to the problems in the store as a whole would obviously work in your favour if it went that far.