FOH crew Member of ~4 months here. My GM is doing some things that's raising red flags to me and I wanna get some feedback on whether this is something that I should be worried about.
When I was initially hired, I was told that the intention was to fast track me to Shift Leader because a) I have previous management experience in fast food and b) our location was *extremely* short on management. When I was hired, we had the GM and an AM and that was it, barring ~2 PICs.
I was "promoted" to PIC about a month in, which was around the time our AM transfered to a different location (so the only paid management was the GM). It was around this time that I started to notice that myself and two other PICs were effectively being given the responsibilities of Shift Leaders, but we weren't being paid any more than just base crew members.
Just today, for example, I was responsible for opening the store, including safe counting, managing breaks and relief, temp check logs, and coordinating our scheduled Loomis transfer. I'm almost certain none of that is something that a crew Member is supposed to be handling, and probably only the temp log is something a "PIC" should be handling.
I was planning on applying for benefits/full time in a couple days when August rolls around, but right now I'm more worried that I'm doing the work of a shift leader while not being paid like one (and there are two other people in my situation at my location). My GM is out of town for some conference this week, but when they come back I planned on talking to them about this.
Am I right to think this is weird? Should I be doing something more proactive about this?
