I don't know what to do · 3:37am Apr 3rd, 2021
I need to rant right now. I am sore, tired, and stressed out. I fucking hate my job. I put in to work part-time which is a 4 to 6 hour shift so I could focus on school while making some cash on the side. Well, almost every single time I work they have me working 8 hours sometimes a little bit more. They can only do this for the cashiers working part-time but they milk the shit out of it. Literally, everyone says that you should just come in expecting to work 8 hours when I said I wanted to work part-time so I wouldn't get stressed out with school but because they always have me working 8 hours, I am getting stressed out because I'm always working. Whether it's on schoolwork work homework or actual work, I just never have a goddamn break.
The thing is that they can schedule me to work for 4 hours but would have me actually work for 8 hours. Now according to the contract that I applied for says they have to give me at least half an hour to an hour notice but there are times when they don't give me that but yet I still have to work those extra hours because they claim that they don't have to tell us even though it's stated that they do but none of the managers will ever do anything about that because they don't have to. So I just get stuck working these extra hours. Yet with how much I work and get paid every week, I still feel like I barely get anything.
And I was considering transferring to another department that I have a lot of experience in which is Deli and produce but a friend of mine who works at the deli told me that her manager there won't accept anyone including cashiers that have already tried to transfer because he just doesn't. He never gives a reason and she's getting tired of him because she and only three other people work there so she has to work a lot too because they don't have anyone but they won't take anyone who wants to transfer or anyone that tries to get hired for deli because they can't work on Sundays because they are either part of a religious family who goes to church on Sunday or are church leaders themselves so the manager never wants to hire them because of that.
I guess you can say that I am just a mess that is tired. I don't know if I should quit or not. I wanted to quit but I have no job to fall back on but at the same time, I don't even fucking care because I just hate my job that much. I hate being a cashier. The job itself is not fun and it's very annoying and frustrating because I have to deal with a bunch of annoying rude ass customers who complains about me for stupid pity reasons to my managers. And I'm always wrong and no one ever wants to hear my side of the story so I never know if the managers think that it's actually my fault or knows it's just Karen being a Karen.
Maybe I'm just frustrated because I was supposed to get off at 8:30 today because I came in at 3:30 p.m. but then was told that I would most likely have to stay till 9 which is 30 more minutes so I wasn't too irritated but then ended up working till 10:30 and because Iām riding on a bike I didn't get home till 11. Also, I tried to request a day off tomorrow through the app we have but it didn't work so I tried to speak to one of my managers to see if I could have tomorrow off because my brother wanted to see me and she bluntly just said no because it was something I had to do two weeks ago. So I'm just pissed. But mostly tired.
Retail really sucks, had my vacations canceled for four months, not to mention they blatantly ignore my availability and schedule me to do the crappy jobs because they know I'll actually do them unlike some of my lazy coworkers. Can't offer any good advice, but I know how sucky it is, sorry.
That sucks. I've never worked in retail hell, but I have many friends who have and they all tell the same horror stories about the Karens, stuck-up white people who won't watch their crotch goblins, entitled people who tell them "why don't you work at a 'real job'?", and 7 and 8 year-old kids apologizing for the actions of their grown-assed parents.
Ouch. As if I wasn't bad enough just dealing with the Karens. I know it's never this simple, but I have a suggestion: Slowly start looking for another job. If you get a little bit of time, just Google it. 5 minutes a day. Eventually you'll find something. Until then, hang in there. *hug*
I wish I had some advice for you, but all I can really say is hang in there and try to find something else better and once you've secured it, quit your current job.