u/OctoFish1234

(Not part of the question) 2 days ago I made a huge rant about hating working at Greggs and complaining about literally everything whilst using alot of unusual language so if anyone replying to the question is from that post then I apologize for the absolute nonsense I wrote on there.

(Sorry for rambling I kind of talk nonsense and it may seem like i'm repeating myself)
(Info)

I am on an 8 hour contract at the moment due to this being my first job and i'm planning to quit soon (I have a holiday between the 1st and the 14th of June and i'm planning to quit after my holiday to look for a job with more hours)
In the past 5 weeks i've been on a single 4 hour shift that was a "company error" which made me turn up at 5am, and my manager opened the building at 5:30am asking why I was even there (the shift had been on the rota for 4 weeks at that point so it was easily changable and noticable that my 5am shift shouldn't be there)
Although i'm on an 8 hour contract I have not been paid for the 8 hours that I am contracted, which I could be wrong but I thought by law i'm supposed to be paid for 8 hours even if I haven't been given a shift for those hours in total, and keeping this in mind I have missed probably £450 just from the past 5 weeks alone. (My manager very often doesn't give me 8 hours per week)

(Question)

At this moment in time I kind of have a "plan" in mind and was wondering what other people's thoughts of this are, and if i'm just doing too much unnecessary stuff since i'm quitting soon or if I should proceed with what I am planning to do:

1. I am going to message hr exactly 2 weeks before my 2 week holiday and message about not being paid and stuff about the hours on my contract, and then see if I can get paid the money that I should have been paid contractually (In the past 5 months i'd guess it's £450, but overall I think it is about £800+)
2. Then after I message hr i'll hope to be paid at least a bit from what I haven't been paid. I assume my boss will talk to me about me messaging hr or paying me or something along those lines.
3. I assume i'll start being added onto shifts weekly but with very little notice, but my contract states I should have 4 weeks notice (which I why I planned to do this 2 weeks before my 2 week holiday) so I will decline these shifts and state that I cannot do them and haven't been given the required notice, and then I will quit after being paid 8 hours a week for the next 4 weeks

PLEASE tell me if i'm just really stupid and my idea is really dumb, I don't want to do something where if I do this and my next employer asks for a reference then my manager will give me a really bad one or something like that, realistically i'd only be getting £1200 maximum throughout this whole "plan" I have (if it can even be called that) and I know that I would easily be able to make that with more hours and it's about 95 hours of work which I could make withing 2-4 weeks depending on the next job I may get

1. WHY THE HELL ARE CUSTOMERS SO STUPID LIKE WHAT. Like why they always on my dick about something like why do they say they want a black coffee just to tell me that I haven't put milk in it, why do they always be on some weird bs like they entitled to the work. Literally had some mf come into the place demanding for some random fuckass item that we've NEVER sold and had to argue with him for 10 straight minutes this place deadass drains me like what the fuck.

2. WHY'S MY MANAGER A WHOLE CHUD BRO LIKE WHAT. Like why am I contracted for 8 hours and I haven't been in work for about 3 weeks, and the contract states that I should be getting 4 weeks notice or sum but i'm ALWAYS getting MAXIMUM 2 weeks notice and USUALLY 4 days notice like what. AND I'M NOT EVEN BEING PAID FOR THE 8 HOURS THAT I'M SUPPOSED TO BE CONTRACTED LIKE TS NOT A BREACH OF CONTRACT.

3. WHY ARE ALL MY COWORKERS FUCKIN WEIRD AS HELL. Like tell me why i'm just working and some random girl ordering asks for my Instagram (so I give her my ig duh) but then by my next shift (the day after) literally EVERYONE I saw somehow found out and started talking about how I was "pulling" and had "rizz" and I deadass just wanted to run away and cry (not out of sadness just because I hate everyone) (ts is going on TILL THIS DAY BTW and it happened a soliud 3 months ago)

4. WHY DO I GET THE CHUDDY SHIFTS LIKE WTF. Like okay i'm not complaining too heavy about this but my past fuckin 10 shifts have been on about 2 sdays notice and they've been closing shifts where it's me and 1 other person. AND THE MF I'M ON CLOSE WITH DOESN'T DO BS OTHER THAN COUNT THE AMOUNT OF MONEY IN THE TILL AND THAT'S IT. LIKE IDEADASS CLEAN THE WHOLE SHOP AND EVERYTHING ASHGUADRSGHUASDUGHBJJGHBFADHJB

5. On a real note I deadass like the job TO AN EXTENT but I deadass only like 3 coworkers that I never see, and i'm fully thinking about quitting just to get more hours elsewhere and am I deadass gonna work at Greggs past the age of 20 like huh.
   However i'm not sure how to go about me quitting since I know i'm planning on quitting after my holiday (1st June - 15th June) but I don't know if I should just quit quietly or press my manager about all the bs he's on, since contractually i'm obligated 8 hours of pay even if he hasn't given me the 8 hours of work, and since i've worked there I could say i've lost upwards of £500 from not being given the contracted hours.

Should I just demand that he pay me and start spouting about how it's a breach of contract if he doesn't, and start just spouting random bs about how the employment rights act 2025 and whjatever obligated notice time idk. OR do I just not say anything about it and get a new job and if they need a reference from him then he'll be like oh he's tuiff ig instead of saying i'm the worst monster to grace this earth?