McDonalds is not the only one

I see McDonalds is getting shamed for illegal practices.  A manager was interviewed saying she was asked by higher ups to take hours away from employees when they reach overtime, or when things didnt balance, how she was forced to have employees sign out an hour before leaving, employees working for free and knowing they are but loyal enough to stick with her, understanding it wasn't her fault.  She was with the company for ten years, quite an accomplishment under those conditions.  But McDonalds isn't the only guilty one.  Every low rung job I ever had was like this.  It was my first job like many other teenagers but  I soon had to quit because they would make me close on a school night which means I came home at 3am and then they would schedule me the next day right after school.  I came down with mono in no time.  Next I worked at Lerners at Randhurst Mall.  They too had us sign out promptly at 9pm closing but then we went back into the store and spent thirty minutes straightening racks on our dime.  When I took a job as a nail technician at Mario's Tricoci's we had mandatory meeting we had to attend.  They would suddenly wipe your day clean which meant you were losing a days pay because we were paid fifty percent of every clients service.  No clients, no money, no pocketful of tip money at the end of the day either.  These meetings would be places you would have to drive to and the nail techs and I would carpool to some other suburban location where nail techs from other Mario Tricoci salons would gather to listen to a presentation about there many products.  Once after several hours of this, there was a break were everyone stood up thinking it was time to leave and out came Mrs. Tricoci, asking us all to stay while she started her presentation on how to sell more of their products.  We wouldn't get paid for the four or five hours we took out of our day so how could it be mandatory?  I was outraged and left for the bathroom, soon the other three nail techs I came with appeared and said they had enough and we bailed out of there.  My mom would say how she sees Mrs. Tricoci all the time at the holistic doctors office my mother always went to and would drag me to for treatments insurance would never cover.  Then one day I saw her there, in her fur coat.  Till this day I'm still angry with myself for not pointing out to her that coat was earned off the backs of many employees who were forced to give her their free time.  Friends have similar stories .  I think it's common but I guess it's progress that it's becoming public.  But McDonalds is far from being the only one.