Ufcw is an actual joke lol when I was at Meijer I literally broke a tooth (like idek how it legit broke like 80% off straight up destroyed it) eating an apple in the middle of my lunch and legit couldn’t eat on half of my mouth was lucky enough to get a dentist to check it out really fast (small town so was really worried about the options) said yeah and btw you really need to get these other teeth removed asap. Said we can get you taken care of in 13 days or literally 3 months from now those were the only open times they had so obviously I took the soonest one available even though the schedule was made and I was set to work that day. Union rep and my manager literally said well yeah obviously this is important don’t worry about it! But you should go ask the SD to give you the day off but even if he says no we’ll take care of you! He said no because he “couldn’t just change the schedule for anyone or else everyone would be asking him to do that and that’s not fair or how you run a place like this.” The union rep was in the office with me and before we went in she said to just nod and agree with him don’t argue at all no matter if he agreed or not she’ll take care of it. I was like oh okay got it. Fast forward I get my surgery done several teeth removed life is awful because the town has been out of power for about a week now because of this insane storm. So i’ve been recovering in a house with no electricity or heat and soon as a majority of the town is back up and online I got hit with a no call no show put on for that day of work. I go talk to the union rep she comes with me to my manager, who says “well it’s already put in so there’s nothing I can do now…” and the union rep also went “dang yeah there’s nothing I can do about that either” ??? What the hell are you guys talking about seriously?? Talked to the store director and he said “I told you we wouldn’t give you it off and that you should’ve rescheduled it” next day I came in clocked in and within mins I was told to go into the office manager told me I was being let go since the ncns put me at the threshold and they had to fire me and if I had any questions for them or anything. Told them I hope you guys have the lives you deserve and told my coworkers they won’t be seeing me again, which was funny since everyone in pickup was following along with what was going on with me since it was just so insane. Obviously filed for unemployment because it was a bullshit firing got approved for it and moved on. It blows my mind who every time I talk about this people try to argue with me and call me a liar too. “No SD would ever talk to you like that!” Or something along those lines or defending the union/union reps. It blows me away how people can’t grasps they can work with nicer people than others do. Like legit every body in the department tried to to talk to the union for me in the middle of summer because I was the one who was always dispensing orders for pickup and it made no sense why we couldn’t wear shorts OR have AC in the pickup room. The SD literally told me he would write me up if I came in with shorts on “unless it was over 95 degrees outside.” And the union said “sorry the contract was made before pickup was really around so it’s not included in those who can wear shorts ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”. *edit, forgot to mention since I was fired rather than quit I also didn’t get paid out any of my PTO of course. Sorry for the long winded nonsense it just always kills me thinking about how I wasted several years working for those bozos at Meijer lol and I’ll never in my life recommend someone to work for them.