Anonomous Crewman

Burger King: The King’s Report Disappoints

Hello, I'm a crew member at a local Burger King in my area, and I'm having some problems at my store. There's a manager that I work with that treats the crew rather poorly to put it mildly. Most are kids who just take the abuse, and get written up with no one to stand up for them. I however am an adult. Instead of using respect and teamwork to motivate her crew, she offers free-meals (which she's not supposed to do) and when something doesn't go her way, to 'motivate' them she threatens to take away their 'free-meal' privelages, which she shouldn't be offering in the first place. She is taking advantage of those with low-income. I call that extortion.

Unfortunately there is more... The way she talks to the crew is LESS than professional. I am a closer and recently hired, so i'm kinda new. I was washing dishes and discussing closing procedures with another crew, which I thought to be acceptable as 'teamwork', when she comes barging out of the blue, and unexpected SCREAMING at us to, "shut-up, and get back to work or I'll take away your free-meal priveladges." I was stunned. I've never had a boss that treated me like a child like this before. Even if I were at fault, or got carried in conversation, it didn't warrent all that. It really bothered me. Enough that I tried to bring my concern to her. I asked her when it was just us two working together so that the rest of the store could not hear us, so it would be discreet, "Is there another way you could have made your point across without treating us like we were 12?" She went boligerant after that, and our 'private conversation' was no longer 'just between us' but rather the whole store. She carried on, and insulted me by telling me how slow I was at filtering the fryers. The filter machine was acting up, making it very difficult to complete the task. Now the machine doesn't work at all, and our supervisor needs to call a repair man. Furthermore she said, "Maybe your not cut out for this job." I would have let this go, or even second-guessed myself, being new and all, that I may have been the one that had done something wrong, if this was an isolated incident... To my suprise, I am not the only one.

Another member of our crew went to the hospital for anxiety after a shift with her, and another crew man the next day refused a 'write-up' from her because she felt she was being singled out and picked on. Also it became known to me that the District Manager had to transfer her 3 or 4 times to diffrent stores because no one got along with her. My supervisor and hiring manager don't get along with her either. To the point where the DM was called in to 'councel' my hiring manager and the manager of topic, to just get them to talk to each other.

This woman is not only wasting company money with her free meal bribes but using it as extortion to her crew, but she is also a company liability, for any of my fellow crewman has enough evidence to sue for Mental Dirress.

Oh and if this is not enough, she openly says to other crewman when I'm not working the same shift as her, that "I'm a worthless crew member, not worth the payroll." When the crewmember with this information came to me with this, he was standing in front of my hiring manager, and my hiring manager confirmed it and advised that I should definatly speak to our supervisor regaurding this 'bad manager.'

Honestly, I'm not sure what I should do. I shouldn't have to 'feel' this way about a job, and feel like i'm being laughed at behind the scenes, as a person in position of authority mocks me and it always getting back to me. How anyone could do this is beyond me. I just wanted a job cause times are tough, I didn't sign up to be abused. It's not worth the pay, but I need it right now. Should I just quit? Then again, why should I have to? I didnt' do anything wrong... But when I go back to work, she singles me out and has me do 1 task over and over and over. 'Taking me by the hand, and critiquing sarcasticly.'

What do I do?

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