They force you to work off the clock. They change your schedule constantly and where you will be working and what you are doing. We are not paid to check our schedule! But if we don't constantly login the server sends you an email. They are forcing us to work at 3-4-5 different Retail Chains now so that there is no stability whatsoever. Each chain has different requirements and apps and uniforms etc. You have to download and learn and update a ton of apps that are huge and a mess and on your own time. There is noone to help you. No matter who you call they are no help. This has been true forever. It was a bit of a mess working just one Retail Chain at different locations every day but now it is chaos. They are sending people to unfamiliar locations farther from home to work a store that somebody else lives nearby and is used to working and vice-versa. It's like being a temp everyday but at minimum wage with way higher criteria and demands. And you just try to cope all on your own wherever you end up and whatever you are doing and you just have to do this day after day after day. When you worked just one retail chain you could get a little bit familiar with your environment but now that's all gone. It is SO Destabilizing. They are moving us all around just to torture us. People who were reasonably happy to work a few different stores in the same chain a few times each per month now work at 6-8 different stores and 3-4 different retail chains in the same month. They change what you are doing or where you are working every single day. One day you are cooking something complicated with no help in an unfamiliar Frys with half of what you need to execute and the next day you are told to be a bartender making cocktails in a Walmart for a high profile event where everyone else is making twice what you are and doing less. The next day you are at a Target cooking pizza in a half broken pizza oven with a door falling off and with a missing leg on it and no potholder and no way to adjust the temp on the oven. The next day you might have to cook sausages in an electric skillet with no lid or no plugin or cook chicken strips in an air fryer that may not have been delivered to the store. And somebody else may have been there a few days prior and left hot chocolate to mold in a pot they found to put atop an electric skillet to heat water to make cocoa but ran out of time and left a mess behind. They have also cut shifts so you have added time pressure on top of everything else. And there are around 4 people who can mess with your schedule and change it at a moments notice. And nobody you can get to help you with what you need. All Sticks, No Carrots. And No raises and if you're good you will get the hardest and worst gigs. You can get complimented and reprimanded on the same day. The stores can love you and your company treats you like crap.
