This happened at the end of a day shift. Now, the way I see it, once my shift is over, that's it and I'm going home. While a manager can stay later, they can claim back the extra hours and go home early the next day. I can't, and I wouldn't get paid a thing for staying late.
Basically, I was at the end of my shift. There was a humungous queue, partly cuz of the time of day, but also cuz one of the colleagues doing the late shift was outside helping a disabled customer. When it came to the end of my shift, I put a sign up, cashed up my till and left. As I was walking past the queue, I heard an SC mutter, "Why can't she just stay til the queue goes?"
I didn't answer, but had I been able to I would have informed the SC that a) I don't work for free, and had I waited til the queue went down, I would have worked half an hour at least unpaid overtime; b) my colleague is coming back in as soon as he's finished helping the customer (in fact, as I went out the door, he came back in) and c) if you don't want to wait, then don't come in at our busiest time.
Basically, I was at the end of my shift. There was a humungous queue, partly cuz of the time of day, but also cuz one of the colleagues doing the late shift was outside helping a disabled customer. When it came to the end of my shift, I put a sign up, cashed up my till and left. As I was walking past the queue, I heard an SC mutter, "Why can't she just stay til the queue goes?"
I didn't answer, but had I been able to I would have informed the SC that a) I don't work for free, and had I waited til the queue went down, I would have worked half an hour at least unpaid overtime; b) my colleague is coming back in as soon as he's finished helping the customer (in fact, as I went out the door, he came back in) and c) if you don't want to wait, then don't come in at our busiest time.
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