Question by Emi: Is this unfair? “punished” at work for stupid “crime”?
So i work at a movie theater. It is a popular corporation and have a lot across the country. I work floor staf and go up and beyond for this job cause i was un-employed for a year (looked for a job that long). i get paid minimum wage and barely get to 10 hours a week while also being a full time student with ALOT of availibility

Heres what happened: Out break room got redone and in our break room we have a large table with a bunch of chairs and the Managers put a thin cheap tarp tablecloth over it. One day during my lunch break with 3 other employee’s we were writing down schedules from the schedule book for the next week and had pens and doodled on the table cloth.

The table cloth already had rips and tears so we knew like many cheap ones like it it will be thrown away. My two employees wrote the theater name and logo while i simply wrote “I <3 ___" the name of the person was my bf and was not an employee at the theater.

A few weeks go by and I go to pick up my paycheck and am told that i was to do my creative punishment for the crime. I ask what for and my team manager told me. I was to scrub the gum off of every chair in the theater on theaters 1 through 11. I asked when and my manager said my next shift... I did not get scheduled at all this week because i requested off for ONE day...and i get scheduled ONE DAY so they said i have to come on my time during the week to do it (but was unclear if i could do it next shift or i could clock in). We have multiple managers and im pretty sure our two female managers who like to assign and ask for picked up shifts without askin availibilty and just being down right respectful prolly are just finding a reason to get me to do this task.

My two co workers already did their punishment..one did theaters 12 through 16 as the other just did the arcade.

If i was defacing property of the theater...ok i understand. But it was a tablecloth worth a dollar that was not even MADE by our company. My mom thinks i should quit but i need the job.

My manager that told me this said, "i dont think the punishment fits the crime" but i clean alot more than some of the younger lazy workers here...and all this is for minimum wage..

What should i do? And should i take this to corporate?
it took me a year to find a job and i still have another year of college or so to go through. I like the job and people but i have been ticked all day and think its just so unfair.

Thinking i might put up with it but if anything else happens ima take it to corporate and have more than one instance where they abused me

Best answer:

Answer by gardenoflia
That’s a job (Journey Of the Broke).
You either go along with the B#*@@!!!T or you quit.
Start thinking about what you can do to build something for yourself, a home business or network marketing. Be your own boss. something no-one can ever take away from you. If you continue to work for someone else, believe me, this is not the worst thing that will happen to you on a job!

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