It's been a while since I've had to deal/work with teens.
Today I got a call from a parent, 30 minutes before she was scheduled to work, telling me that her daughter wasn't going to be able to work her double because "her dad is out of town, there's contractors at the house, and she's with me running around town all day".
I straight up said, "One of us can meet you to bring her to work." Obviously there were excuses so I said, "If you're running around town, that means you're out and about so you should be able to drop her off at her job, right? If not, we can have someone meet you somewhere to pick her up." Then the mom started stuttering and fumbling for even more excuses. Shocker. I cut the mom off in her ramblings and said, "I'm sorry, but this is your daughter's place of employment. Not yours. She needs to be the one to call out and get her shift covered. If she's not willing to come to work, then she needs to be an adult and call the general manager to figure this out because this is her job." Of course the mom asked for the number of the GM so she could call him. I flat out said, "Is she in the car with you? If so, I need to speak to her. Again, this is her job. Not yours."
She put the girl on the phone and immediately, because she heard the conversation, started apologizing. I finally said, "But you're not sorry. You've known for a week that you are supposed to work a double and be here in 20 minutes. There is no one to cover your shift and you don't care. Its definitely not fine, but you know what? I don't care. You need to call D so he can find someone to cover your call out last minute since you've decided not to work. Here's hiss number." I gave her the number twice. Twice. She even repeated it back to me.
Guess what? She never called him. Again, shocker. So when he called me to ask if I'd fed the dogs I asked him, "Hey, so who is covering Z's double?" He was like, "Uhhhh, what do you mean?" I said, "She was supposed to call you so you can get her shift covered because apparently she can't work today. That was about an hour ago."
Needless to say, he didn't know because she never called him and she didn't call because Zoe is a scared of D. So myself and 2 other employees were calling other coworkers on their day off to see if they could help out. Only one of them could work, but it was only the night shift.
The reason that A and I were so mad was because Z had her mom call and make up some bullshit reasons about why she couldn't work. Especially after D overheard Z and M (an ex employee) making plans for Saturday and M (stupid, loud and obnoxious) was encouraging her to call out or get her shift covered Saturday.
I hate working with teens.
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