boss trouble!!!
Hi just wondering if any of you think i have a case to go off work early or at least make a complaint against my manager?
I work in a very busy restaurant and tonight was left to serve 40 tables of customers with just one other girl who is pretty new! My manager who is a total waste of space sat at the end of the bar talking to his mates. I was so stressed out, i could feel my heart beating out of my chest, but this isnt the first time they have done this to me since findoing out i am pregnant (usually we have 4 staff in the restaurant) I rang my oh who told me to speak to my boss, tell him i wasnt prepared to carry on working if he wasnt going to help out and if things didnt change to just leave, as running around a packed restaurant for 6 hours with no break and carrying plates ect ....wasnt good for either me or the baby! anyway things didnt change but i stayed anyway because i didnt feel it was fair on the other girl.
I am 24+5 weeks pregnant so havent got long to go til i can go on maternity leave but i feel so stressed out every time i know i am going to be on with him. Do you think if i made a formal complaint to head office they will let me start my maternity leave early?
I work in a very busy restaurant and tonight was left to serve 40 tables of customers with just one other girl who is pretty new! My manager who is a total waste of space sat at the end of the bar talking to his mates. I was so stressed out, i could feel my heart beating out of my chest, but this isnt the first time they have done this to me since findoing out i am pregnant (usually we have 4 staff in the restaurant) I rang my oh who told me to speak to my boss, tell him i wasnt prepared to carry on working if he wasnt going to help out and if things didnt change to just leave, as running around a packed restaurant for 6 hours with no break and carrying plates ect ....wasnt good for either me or the baby! anyway things didnt change but i stayed anyway because i didnt feel it was fair on the other girl.
I am 24+5 weeks pregnant so havent got long to go til i can go on maternity leave but i feel so stressed out every time i know i am going to be on with him. Do you think if i made a formal complaint to head office they will let me start my maternity leave early?
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Thanks hun. Im going to go to my other manager who is also a good friend of mine and ask that i drop the shifts that he is on(even if it does mean losing money) My oh absolutely hates him and i've been pretty lucky so far that he hasnt been in and said something, so i think its for the best if i just change shifts! Everyone knows what he is like but nothing is ever done, for the simple reason that he's a live in manager and doesn't have any friends so is always on the premises, meaning my main manager who also lives in the flats up stairs, is able to come and go as he pleases! I mean they have even caught him doing drugs in the toilets! and this isnt a small back street restaurant/hotel its one of the biggest chains in the uk.
God i sound like a right moaning cow lol oh well only 4 more weeks to go then i can go on maternity leave although i was planning on staying on for quite a while longer i think i will have killed him by then lol
Don't pick up the extra work load tho... if 4 people are ment to be on and are not don't do 4 peoples work load! when customers start to complain explain you are pregnant and you are 3 members of staff down and then redirect them to your manager whom is responciable.
I know working sometimes there is a hiden pressure or expectations of what you should be doing... if you need to sit down though even if its really hard to, i just would.
have you challanged your boss about the work loads?
id also write everything down like in diary format just encase anything comes of it ie him being really difficult then you'll have evidence!
take care of your self honey - there is only one of you! x
Your are not a 'right moany old cow' hun - no one deserves to be treated that way PG or not!!!
Dismissal (or any other detrimental treatment) of a woman who is unable to work because of her pregnancy is unlawful sex discrimination.
All employers should carry out a risk assessment for women of childbearing age regardless of whether or not they are pregnant. It might be useful to request a copy of this risk assessment and see what safeguards are in place. If a woman cannot work in her current post then they need to offer her alternative employment i.e. say as cashier where you can sit down. If alternative employment is not available then they have to suspend you on full pay.
My advice would be to request a copy of the risk assessment and put in a written complaint. If you do not feel inclined to put in a written complaint at this stage then you could visit your gp who might write a supporting letter to say that for health and safety reasons you cannot work as a waitress but suggest they find alternative employment within the company for you until you take maternity leave. If you take maternity leave now then you will have less time with your baby and it seems such a shame because your boss is an idiot.
No employer can refuse to do this (as far as I am aware) and if they do then you may have a case to take this matter further.
As for your boss - what a w***** - well, you show him you hold all the cards - not him!
Love Lee
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I have been having health and safety assesments done every 2 weeks athough they dont really say much (just that i cant carry too many plates ect....)
I wish that i could just do what my job role really entails, but having worked in this job for so long, i know that customers dont care who is responsible just who is there at the time to take the brunt of there anger when there night doesnt go to plan. So it would just make my life even harder if i didnt do that extra bit! As far as asking to change jobs, i would love to but i would lose so much money. I actually earn more money in tips than my actuallly wages and if it wasnt for them i probably wouldnt even work there.
I'm im going to speak to my other manager tomorrow, i origianally started doing the shift im on now so i didnt have to work with this perticular guy, but then head office changed the managers rotas and i was stuck!
Anyway i will keep you all informed, if worse comes to worse ill just reduce my shifts til i go on maternity leave.
thanks again!
I am only suppost to do certain tables anyway but the way the restaurant is set out i have to wlk past all the rest constantly so dont really have an option but serve them (that or get lots of abuse) and lets face it, it will be me thats to blame when it all comes to a head! i've spoke to my other managers and dropped the shift i work with him, but it also means dropping about ??70 a week from my wages. (its either that or my oh gets done for murder lol) I just thinks he's got something against me, i've already got one formal compliant against him for spreading lies that i had social services on me about my son, but as usual nothing was done!. He does the wages aswell and im constantly getting paid wrong. i was off for 2 weeks so should have got sick pay but i got nothing this week, complained and all he said was he'll sort it (ya right!!!!)
Katiewoolly
have you checked if your entitled to maternity pay i.e you earned enough in your qualifying weeks? if you did then they have to pay you by law and the government wont pay you because of this! Some people are just born to be evil. try not to let it stress you out and if you feel like you cant do something then dont (says me who runs around like an idiot lol) i've had a really good pregnancy and without any complications adn wouldnt do anything if i thought it would harm my baby! just tell them you cant carry thing up and down stairs and they have to make arrangement for things to change. x