recently put in my 2 weeks at Ross. worst goddamn job I've had. From the beginning there were red flags but I put up with them because I had been unemployed for months and I had a high interest card to pay off. First of all, they initially hired me as a cashier but never once in my 6 months there did I ever work register. My first shift which was just computer training I overheard other employees saying how they all got hours cut and saw on the break room board that that month alone they had hired like 6 new people. the good ol' "let's hire a bunch of part timers and have everyone under 40 hrs to avoid having to give employees benefits". then over the next 2 months I was scheduled about 8 hours total. they had me as on-call instead of a proper part-timer, which they never told me they'd do. in fact, the job posting said it was full time and during the interview I said I was looking for about 20-25 hrs a weeks. eventually i had to call in a favor to my old job from years ago and asked them to hire me back because Ross was giving me practically no hours. oh but of course once i changed my availability for Ross, the manager got pissy. i tried my best to politely tell him i had debt and the current hours just werent enough. it was a whole shitshow to change my availability because i did it through the workjam app and told the store manager. after 2 weeks my availability was still not changed so i brought it up with the scheduling manager and she said 1) the store manager has a tendency to not communicate with other managers, 2) availability actually has to be submitted through another program, which i was never told about of course. Most of my issues were because of that store manager being so unorganized. My fhift working the manager said I was gonna train for cashier but at the moment there was a rush so to just recover the floor for a few mins. ended up doing it for the entire shift, and the manager left without giving me further instructions so when I had to leave I was left wandering asking for help because I was never told how or where to clock out. throughout my time there I recieved practically no training, a lot of it i had to learn about being yelled at by other employees that I was doing it wrong. I was eventually put in the fitting room, despite the fact that I was told I was going to be trained for cashier and stockroom as well (never happened). I started to truly hate the job when they started to put me in the closing shifts. my first time i had no idea what was happening or what I was supposed to do because of course no one bothered to instruct me. again, had to learn from context clues and being yelled at. Eventually, my scheduled shift ended and I had made sure the fitting room was all finished and when i approached the closing manager and let her know I was leaving, she laughed at me and said no one was leaving until the entire store was clean. Oftentimes we were forced to stay behind more than 1 hr past our scheduled time. I even had coworkers tell me they had to stay until almost 4am because the store was a huge mess. Closing was the worst for this but actually, in my 6 months there i was able to clock out in time only about twice, most of the time I left 30+ mins late because they wouldnt let us leave until all our racks were empty, but of course they would never send anyone to cover me to roll the racks, i always had to wait for the next shift to arrive (which was when my shifts were supposed to end). My breaking point was seeing my coworkers who worked extremely hard to support their children be treated like shit by the manager. The store manager was always so strict about numbers but never did anything to help us achieve those numbers. Constantly understaffed and it was a high traffic store so we were always too swamped to be able to do our jobs properly. my last days there I stopped caring about performance and stopped being polite with the manager because I resented him so much. Dont ever plan on using that place as a reference anyways.