Movie theater manager demands workers have availability 24/7, sees school as only valid conflict: 'I DO NOT accept you not being able to work a day because you want the day off to rest'

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• When you're dealing with management at work, you have to strike a balance between asking for what you want and working within their demands. No job is perfect, so you're probably going to have to compromise to some degree, but you can find your way to make it into something you want. You can communicate your wants and needs, and hopefully something will come through. But this only works when you have a manager who is open to critique. The best managers are, but not all managers are the best managers. When you're working retail or any other service industry job, you are sometimes put in positions where you're likely to be taken advantage of. It's demanding work, and it doesn't always give you what you want in return. Not only do you have to deal with demanding and sometimes entitled customers, but you have to deal with a hectic schedule that you might not have a ton of control over. This can be a difficult place to be. And if you're avoiding conflict, then you might end up taking on someone else's pain for no reason. 

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• That's what happened in this story, where a worker learned the hard way that their boss was not the kind of person who should be in charge of managing people. They approached the problem of scheduling incorrectly, and expected way too much out of their (likely minimum wage) workers. What they failed to understand is that retail work is not all that hard to find, and people will go to a different boss if theirs is unreasonable. Nobody wants to work with a manager who doesn't respect them or their time. But that's what was coming up here. Keep scrolling to read what happened in this story and see what you think.

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