God I am so frustrated right now!
Back story, my work place is EXTREMELY under staffed because my boss is a push over and never says no to the people he really likes. I have 4 co worker off for the whole month of February which has left our shop unbelievably understaffed. I have 6 other co workers I work with, 3 of witch are students that can ONLY work after 3pm during the week and 3 that work full time any time. Because of how short staffed we are my manager came to me and asked if I'd be willing to up my shifts from 5 a week to 6 a week and extend my hours from 7 hours to 9 hours (8.5 taking away the 30 min UNPAID breaks we get that I never take because we are only ever schedule with one other person and my job is a two person job). Anyway long story short we are aggressively under staffed and that has left me burnt out so I'm trying to do things outside of work hours that bring me joy to prevent my self from exploding. I have been saving and training to get in to a sport I like for about a month and a half now, I found out that there's a free beginners meeting this Wednesday but sadly I work that day. I SPENT 45 MINUTES trying so desperate to rearrange my one day off a week so that I could do this, I finally found a coworker that agreed to change shifts but because he's a student I had to convince another coworker to hang around for an extra hour so that the student could actually make it in to the shift on time and my other co worker wouldn't be alone for the hour. Everything is worked out so I take my idea to the boss I tell him it's very important to me that I go to this and that I've been doing him a really big favor working so many long shifts this month and you know what this MF says. HE SAYS NO! he said switching shifts makes me look irresponsible and that If I didn't want to work my shifts I should just quit… If I wasn't living paycheck to paycheck I would have left right at that moment but you BET! As soon as I find another job I'm out. No two weeks or anything I'm just leaving!