I’m sure this sub gets plenty stories like this, but it’s the first time something like this has happened to me in the work place so I thought I would share my experience. It’s nothing crazy so I’m gonna try to keep it as short as possible.
At my work we share a tip pool weekly & divvy it amongst the employees based on how many hours worked within that 7 day period. This week, one of my coworkers asked if I could cover his shift for him. Me, starting my journey towards becoming more financially stable, agreed to cover his shift. So, in this 7-day period I worked one more day than normally. Might I also point out, it is written how much tips were in a hourly wage ($T/hr this week), so all of the math to how the amount was calculated is already their. When I received my tips, it seemed as if I got approximately the amount I would get if I worked my normal hours, but on the paper it showed the amount of hours I worked right there. I was confused because our boss is very organized and very good at keeping track of our hours. I went back to check the time sheet for the amount of hours I worked, thinking maybe there must’ve been a mistake and it said I worked 8 hours more than what the other sheet had said. I immediately went to my boss and asked him if he knew that I covered one of our coworkers shifts during the weekend and he replied, “Yes I did, I put all of the hours in.” Then, I was even more confused. I asked if he could kindly just double check for me, so he did. When he double checked he saw that working that extra day had put me into OT, so when putting in everyone’s hours for the tip period, he had accidentally overlooked it as it had been in another column. He then apologized for the mistake, calculated the amount in which I missed out on and gave me the remainder of what I was owed.
I wanted to share my experience as a friendly reminder to make sure you’re getting paid for all of the hours you are working! I hear lots of stories of people finding out that they’re getting shorted on hours. Whether that be on accident, like in my case or on purpose, like so many other cases are, so make sure to check your hours to ensure you’re not the one getting shorted. I hope that this can help a few people out.
TL;DR Get weekly tips based on hours worked. Covered a shift for a coworker and those hours went unaccounted for. Got compensated for those hours after politely asking boss to double check the hours worked.
Thanks for reading and have a great day everyone!
Submitted March 09, 2018 at 06:48PM by BrokeBoiNBA http://ift.tt/2oXzn28
