I hope I did the right thing...

[Neyasha]

Today I got up at 5:30am to be at work for 6:00am, which is normal since I stock shelves at Zellers in the early morning. I get there at 5:55am and the doors are still locked. That's not too uncommon. 7:00am comes around and STILL nobody has come to open the doors to let me and the other 8 members of the stock crew that has been there since before 6:00am in! So at 7:30 when nobody has shown up to let us in out of the 2 degree above freezing cold, I let a note with the people that were staying informing people that I was there but left after an hour and a half of waiting and that I still expect to be payed for the hour and a half that I was there.

So, do people think I did the right thing, or should I have stayed to work the 2.5 hours left in my stupid $8.41 per hour job?

[Shawn]

Any halfway decent job will pay you for your time. It's happened to me before. And yeah, they're not really paying you enough to be standing around and getting frostbite.

[Daiquiri Van-Derveld]

If Zellers is an 'uptight' company, then the smart thing to do would have been to stay.

If theyre more relaxed and willing to work with you, then I prolly would have left, too.

Are you the only one who left?

[Neyasha]

No. I was not the only person that left. Two people left with me, and one person left at 6:30am. They are not really uptight, but the manager will tend to be rather vocal with you if you are 5 min late.

[Rognan Dar]

I wouldn't say that its a big deal. If someone else forgot to let people in, then its their fault, not yours, that you were unable to work. After a hour and a half standing in the cold, most likely not being able to feel much, I would have left.

[imported_Grev Drasen]

I don't care if you did the 'right' thing or not, but in my mind you did the smart thing. Unless they wanted to up my pay I would've left after 20 minutes.

[Wei Wu Wei]

Yeah, for real. It's not your fault you couldn't work. If they want to get on to you for not sticking around, they're just plain stupid. I would have left, too. Next time, maybe they'll do better about letting you guys in.