I've had a job for a while and always got on with everyone, my previous manager made me feel really appreciated, she gave me pay rises for work well done, bonuses, gave extra holidays and paid sick time. I work in an office owned by someone who leaves all those decisions to the management, so she was budgeting with profits to give us all extras and it made us all work a lot harder.
She left not long ago and we have a new manager who said our old manager was stupid to be cutting her own profits to give us more and has basically stopped it all. We don't get paid sick time, had our holidays back to basics and we've all been put back down to minimum wage, some people have lost £5 an hour because of this.
Naturally people have started leaving. It's a stressful job and if we're getting minimum wage we may as well go anywhere else for the same rate of pay. We started getting really short staffed and now are down to hardly anyone. The owner came in and asked us last week what's happening and we told him, but the managed is standing firm he's simply lost the "dead wood" and it's a positive step. One of the women I work with got a job in a supermarket for more money and she's got me and 2 other people a job there, but my notice period is a month.
The others have all just left straight away. Now I feel bad. If we all go together I don't think the business will carry on since it's lost too much money. I told the owner and he seemed concerned but trusts the new manager. When I told the new manager I had another job he told me he'd refuse to accept my resignation and he'd dock my last wage if I didn't work the notice period anyway.
I've been looking it up and it says that's now allowed. But I do feel bad. What would you all do? Should I just go?
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Randomondo · 23/07/2021 17:43
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