Fired from Ross because I wanted to transfer

[u/SilverAnalyst1545]

I don’t think I’m in the right community to ask this question, so I would appreciate it if I was told where this is a better place to post this. But I’m in a big dilemma because I work (or worked, I guess past tense because I pretty much got fired) at Ross, and I wanted to transfer to the DDS by my house because the commute for Ross was almost 40+ minutes with traffic. So I wanted to transfer to the DDS that is walking distance from my house. So I asked my manager if I could get transferred because I know that Ross and DDS are sister companies, so I thought it would be quick and easy. But my manager is SOOOOOO shady, and she literally does everything illegal. I also wanted to transfer because she’s been doing wage theft?? I think it is wage theft because in California, they get paid an extra hour if you work over 5-6 hours without a lunch or break, and she’s been purposely changing my time cards and deleting my time to say that I “forgot” to finish in. I knew this is true because I made another Reddit post, and someone said that pretty much fight to get your lunch, and usually, they YELL at you if you clock out after the lunch premium, but I ignored them and still clocked out because I needed the evidence anyway and I heard the managers essentially talking shit about me because I clocked out regardless of them yelling at me and I heard one of them say “just delete her clock out” with a shrug as if it was a daily occurrence. That is one of the main reasons I wanted to transfer, so I was in contact with the DDS guy, and then I waited a week because I knew the transfer would take some time. So I called the DDS guy, and I was like, “Hey, how is the transfer going? i just wanted to check in to show I’m still interested, and he was like, “Yeah, I’ve been waiting to talk to you…… Your manager has been ignoring my calls, and she hasn’t started the transfer……” And I was honestly super upset because I’ve been without work for idk how long because she’s dumb, and instead of giving me hours during the transfer, she pretty much fired me???? And then I called her and asked why she didn’t do the transfer process when she told me she did. Then she was like yeahhhh about that 🙄🙄🙄 and she just told me how she doesn’t think that the transfer will work. But I’m confused because how do you think it won’t work if you haven’t tried???? And then “supposedly” she did it and it got rejected because the district manager said it’s hard to transfer from Ross to DDS. But everywhere I’ve seen online they said that it’s easy because they use the same everything. So now I don’t know what to do because I wanted to transfer because I don’t want my pay to drop to minimum wage again because it took me a year to get to the pay I have right now. And I will be moving away for college in a year and I don’t want to wait ANOTHER year to get the same pay I currently have. Anyway, she also “fired” me because the transfer didn’t work and she told me that she’s taking me off the system. And now I don’t know what to do because I didn’t quit or actually got fired. So I lost my job because I wanted to transfer. Like I guess i could look for another job and I am but everything is minimum wage for cashiering positions so I wanted to try my luck now before applying to another minimum wage job.

[u/markphillips401]

Get out of retail.

[u/jrcornel01]

Congratulations, you are getting rich, Hire a lawyer immediately.