
I had a promotion by this time and was making less than before I got promoted once they started taxing the tips. But when they started taxing those tips all our paychecks went down by hundreds of dollars. On a weekend you might see $40-$50 at most in one day. Tips weren’t even good to begin with, you get $25 a day at most typically. When I first started they were not taxing tips on your paycheck (most places I’ve earned tips, it was up to me to file that on my taxes at the end of the year anyways) but recently the company decided to start taxing them. There’s no shortage of worker manipulation at Zenleaf.

Whether passive aggression, outright favoritism or gaslighting. The managers and corporate routinely disrespect and humiliate the employees. Being on the inventory side of the store, I saw first hand MANY mistakes the managers made that I would surely have been written up for if it had been me. to the point that I wouldn’t be able to finish my work which I’d get in trouble for. Routinely, I would be given multiple tasks at one time or get started on a task to be asked to go complete another in the middle of it, to be asked again in the middle of that task to complete another etc etc. As an Inventory AIC, I was never even given a description of my job responsibilities. The managers hold their supervisors to impossible standards and they’re all about accountability until it’s one of them that makes a mistake. This company perpetuates a pattern of disrespect and dehumanization towards their employees.
