My boss is terrible. Should I do anything?

I agree, Best Hardware in Tulsa really is the best.

One day back in '88, I went in there looking for something unusual. I asked the guy in charge if they would be interested in running a DIY column in a newsletter I was editing for an older neighborhood full of renovators. Good publicity for them. He didn't miss a beat. "Actually, we have someone here, and this'd be right up his alley. Come on back here, I'll introduce you," he said.

They really do have everything. Literally.

You could have a case for constructive dismissal, but it's probably not worth the time or money. That case would be related to the decrease in your working hours. You had an expectation of a particular # of shifts, that was unexpectedly changed, and they are, in effect, forcing you to seek other employment.

You don't have much of a case in regard to what he is paying/not paying his relative - unless the relative is working there under duress.

Move on, and then decide if you want to pursue wrongful dismissal.

You can contact your provincial Ministry of Labour/Employment and Labour (different names in different jurisdictions) to see if they've got some free advice - but what you've described here doesn't sound like anything illegal has been done.

that's where your constructive dismissal action could come from - but you can pursue it after you've got a new job (keep excellent records of your hours over the past 6 - 12 months ready to produce).

Who said that all Canadian immigrants weren't "white?"

Apparently you.

You're stereotyping of immigrants is showing, and you know how ignorant that is.

See how one's mind works when one has grown up in a Statist country?

Who brought up immigrants? It was your twisted mind that went there. Your twisted mind that brought up multiculturalism. And now we are supposed to buy that you weren't referring to immigrants of colour or anything other than lily white skin?? Please, I'm not the only person who sees through your racist screed.

So, the average farm family in the US pays it's kids for work done, eh? Or the bars that pay no wages don't exist in your country? Or that every single person in the US is paid a decent wage? What is the average minimum wage in Texas? That's right, it a whole $2.00 less than any place in Canada. Where the standard of living is higher, and health care and birth control is free. And we don't have ****'s like Perry telling us what we can do with our Uteri.
Please explain Statist? We don't have states? Perhaps provincial was the word you were looking for. lol
I've just read that half, HALF - 50% of all the garment shops in NYC are sweatshops. That's just NYC, how many unfortunates work in your fields? How many American companies employee Asian workers who are so overworked they have to put nets around the building so the underpayed staff don't jump out of windows, or how many companies hire children at pennies a day to make your shoes, or t-shirts. Go Texas!!
Since we don't know the details of why this guy works for nothing, and since it's not against the law to volunteer... I think you've once again jumped the proverbial gun.
Then again, I can see why the idea of slave labour is so repellent. After all, your country actually had to have a war to stop that practice and some of you still can't get over the fact you can't grow cotton and have some "Immigrant" pick it for you, all for the price of a lash from a whip.

It was a twisted mind that imagined that a company relying on the free employment of relatives might be one owned by recent immigrants?

Really? I thought it was pretty logical, but I guess you have different notions about immigrants.

For instance, suggesting that this coffee house is now owned by immigrants is in no way derogatory as respects immigrants unless you buy into the tripe of the original poster that they are evil, which clearly I do not.

I didn't make any mention of what the ethnicity of the immigrants might be. If you assumed I did, I'm supposed to be at fault for your biased assumption? Am I supposed to declare for folks like you "And when I say immigrants, I mean immigrants of any color"?

Admit it Ceili, it was you who reflexively associated immigrants with non-whites. It was you who offered that you knew "whites" who might do the same thing. Of course you were suggesting that both the non-white immigrants and white nationals were guilty of the same sin.

All of your efforts to turn in back on me are quite pathetic, albeit predictable.

The rest of your rant about the US and Texas is irrelevant to my post and quite silly, but you will blather on.

Throwing in nonsense about slavery in America that ended more than a hundred years ago is yet further evidence of the fact, you have so compulsively tried to deny, that you are anti-American.

It's in your spleen. You can't help it so embrace it.

I'm the kid of immigrants you dumb ****. I don't assume anything. Again, I didn't automatically assume immigrants, you did. Start back pedaling....

What a sweetheart you are.

Of course you didn't automatically assume immigrants, but once the term was used, you did automatically assume non-white immigrants. This is a fact that you can't deny.

All the "dumb fucks" you wish to lob out there to cover your embarassment can't make it otherwise.

BTW - So you're the kid of imigrants; big effin deal. My grandparents were imigrants who came to NY and they were unapologetic in hating their fellow immigrants of different ethnicities. They were among the vast majority of immigrants who did so.

Maybe if you back pedal you could still save some face.

I'm not from ignorant stalk, by your admission on several accounts you are and have not learned from their ignorance. Good on ye.

I think you mean stock,and if you are truly not, how disappointed they must be in you.