60 hours a week, still part time. Only full time employees were eligible for overtime pay, but no one ever told me they’d got any overtime. Those who’d been put in charge of a specific store section got big raises, and lots more hours, but b/c they were salaried they got no overtime. The section managers told me their positions weren’t worth it.
They’d started me in early Sept at 30 hrs/wk, then dumped more hours on me, same pay, no bennies. No raises, either. I quit near the end of the following March, so I’d been there more than six months. Despite my coming in w/loads of experience, they also paid me min. Insult upon insult.
Maybe a month after quitting, I learned B&N’s high mucky-mucks had fired that manager during her last evaluation. Not for employee abuse and breaking multiple labor laws (I wasn’t the only one screwed out of being full time, and she habitually scheduled our lunch breaks 2+ hours past what the law demands, etc etc), but b/c she never sent in any of the returns.
Chain bookstores regularly send their shops lists of books that aren’t selling at the desired speed. They’re sent back to a corporate warehouse, where they’re sent to stores where they do sell, or are remaindered, etc. There was an massive wall of shelves in the back room full of returns she’d never sent back, and upper mgmt freaked TF out. I’d asked her for a returns list one V slow day, not long after I’d been hired, and she told me, “Oh, we don’t do that here.” Having worked at another chain for ages, I knew it was BS.
