My job is making me depressed
I wasn't sure where to put this!
Hello I would be very grateful if I could get some advice here, sorry this will be quite long.
I started my 16 hour contract with a retail company in 2015, I didn't really want a job that was part time as I've always been after a full time job and have been looking for 5 or more years. So when the position came up I decided to go for it for the time being so I could have a bit of extra money to get me by while I carried on looking for a job with more hours. I haven't got much more but I have always believed in paying things by myself.
The first problem is that they keep putting me on silly 3 hour shifts and making me work 4/5 days a week, I strongly believe that this is a bit over the top! I live quite a long walk away as well and can't afford to get public transport and I don't drive so it's a bit rubbish in bad weather. I feel like I have a full time job sometimes with all the getting ready and travelling but without the money! I also would like to enjoy working part time while it lasts by having more days off because really I want to work full time! I'd of thought it would have been like 2 days a week, 8 hours each but nope!
Another concern of mine is that we are supposed to get one weekend off in every 4 but for some reason I seem to have to wait longer to get a weekend off. I got so mad about it, I decided to opt out of Sundays just so I could enjoy at least one weekend day off. It didn't change much as I am still on more Saturdays than everyone else.
I finally ended up getting a 28 hour job offer, I handed my notice in and was ready for it. My current employer started trying to scare me into staying with them by saying I could stay with them for another month on Sundays (surprise surprise) as well as start my new job to see what it was like and I could have my old contract back if it didn't work out. I also had my of a supervisor (she's really got it in for me) saying in all the years she's worked there no one has ever been offered this opportunity you know trying to mess with my head. I agreed to it just in case even though I really didn't want to do it and knew I needed to leave because of how depressed they had been making me feel.
Unfortunately the new employer rang me a day before my notice ran out to tell me that they would be a delay in my start date, I was going to start the week after but they wanted me to wait another week after that. I decided to ask my current employer if I could stay for an extra week as I would be without a wage for 2 weeks and the supervisor made out that she couldn't put me in the rota because she had shared my hours out between the other employees. Obviously I started really panicking at this point and decided to ask to retract my notice and as simple as that they threw my notice away and offered to keep me on but still made out they couldn't put me in the following week.
My manager, supervisor and myself had a meeting about me staying with them so I asked to have the week I wasn't working as a holiday so I wouldn't be out of pocket and my manager was a bit funny with this and said all he's heard about all week is myself going on about leaving then staying then wanting the week I was off as a holiday.
Anyway he brought up me opting back into Sundays and was like "If you do i'll give you this week you're off as a holiday I can't be anymore fairer than this". I told him I didn't really want to cause I was busy on Sundays and I already worked loads of Saturdays without my entitled weekend off! My supervisor decided to butt in and said she does try and give everyone their weekends off but it doesn't always work like that. Funny thing is though some people get more than one off so why am I working so many? My manager told me if I opted back in it wouldn't be all the time so I reluctantly agreed to it.
Guess what my rota is even worse than ever now, I'm already in 2 Sundays this rota and I will be missing my weekend off again. It's really starting to get to me now, I feel like I have no social life and I have just moved in a new home with my boyfriend and we haven't even had chance to enjoy it together yet because when I'm off he's at work. I just feel like I'm being taken for a mug and wish I went for this new job I just couldn't afford to mess around with jobs!
One of my rotas for this month is Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday so I have one day off on Wednesday. I wouldn't be so bothered if I got more hours for working all these days but they are all like 3, 4 and 5 hour shifts. I just feel so crap that I'm so poor and I'm expected to have no social life on the top of this :(
Is they any kind of place I can go to, to discuss myself being treated unfairly in the work place, honestly it is making me feel so miserable.
Thanks for reading :)