I just recieved a phone call from my bf at work. He decided to look up my paycheck amount for me, which I was pretty excited about. I worked 46 hours at my new job, where I was hired at 10.43! Which is quite the increase from 9.50/hr I was making managing a clothing store. Now, I am really enjoying this new job, there is SO SO much to learn but I've put in quite a bit of extra effort and now know 90% of everything I need to know. I'm working as a photo specialist, aka, working for a photo lab. So anyways, it turns out they lied. I was not being paid 10.43/hr. Infact, I was paid min wage, 8 dollars/hr for 21 of those hours, and then 20 hours at 9 dollars and hour, and only recieved 5 hours at the wage I was hired at. I was never told this would happen, infact, when I was first interviewing there was talk of 13-14/hr because of all my experience. I know I can go talk to them, they aren't going to change it.. my frustration is that I wasn't TOLD any of this. It feels like I was lied to, great way to start a new job.
And to top that off? The photo & electronics manager took me aside yesterday to tell me they don't have enough hours for me in photos and that if I want hours I have to work in electronics. And so on the next schedule I am working there 75% of the time. I don't want to do this, mostly because of everything I have to learn ON MY OWN TIME, which was made perfectly clear to me. So my life will be my job again. Also, because they are training me, you better believe they are going to be paying me 9 dollars an hour again.
The best part? I can't tell my bf how I feel.. he wants me to work in electronics. I guess he doesn't want me to break another digital camera, which I did when I was trying to turn it on. And if I screw up anything? Apparently because he was a part of me being hired, it won't be good. No pressure or anything. I hate the world today. And I can't stop crying because I'm SO stressed out right now.
-Aimee