this is my first job and i’m working at a fast food place. i got hired before school started and would work five hours a day. i used to have four days out of the week off but i believe that’s because i wasn’t permitted to working long hours. my birthday was yesterday. they changed my schedule. not sure when. my manager called me today and said i had to come in to close and threatened to write me up if i didn’t show up. now i work five days out of that week for five hours, but that feels too wrong.
i know there will be some people saying that it’s not that big of a deal, but hello i just started school. just started building my social skills after i fell off the face of the earth during the pandemic. my friend group planned to go to the movies next week and invited me but i unfortunately work those days. those are missed opportunities to making everyone else comfortable with my presence. i know it’s simply two more days added onto my week but it’s too much to me and i’m not afraid to admit it. unless it’s to my manager of course. i don’t want to wake up dreading going to work. i want to enjoy working, not experience a burnout and quit within the first month.
maybe i’m just new and i’m not used to the horrible reality of living to work, but i read a couple other people’s views on this and it seems i’m not the only one to think this way. i’m not sure if i should tell them that i won’t work those many days. i’m a newbie. she threatened to write me up yesterday. what if she stops treating me kindly because i’m “asking for too much?” i feel like i’m not in the position to make demands even though i sure as hell am. i want to be able to take care of myself and continue building my own life up, not go to work immediately after school, work with pessimistic coworkers, then come home, not knowing what my family and friends did today.
i know reddit’s probably not the place for this but i see a lot of good answers from folks here so this is what i’m choosing to do. hopefully you wise people can give me good advice.