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My mom apparently thinks middle school students don’t need to relax sometimes

When I was 14 my mom made me get a job working under the table for minimum wage. It was weekends and a few weekdays which meant I worked right after school most days and didn't get home until around the time I go to bed. School started getting difficult and I had almost no time to relax so I was constantly stressed out. The 2 days off I got were just spent laying down and watching TV since I didn't have the energy to do anything else. The worst thing she did was volunteer me to work on my days off without my prior knowledge or consent multiple times and tried to gaslight me into thinking that I was being ridiculous for being upset about it. I dreaded every shift and got severe burnout which really killed my work ethic which before this was actually pretty decent. I argued…


When I was 14 my mom made me get a job working under the table for minimum wage. It was weekends and a few weekdays which meant I worked right after school most days and didn't get home until around the time I go to bed.

School started getting difficult and I had almost no time to relax so I was constantly stressed out. The 2 days off I got were just spent laying down and watching TV since I didn't have the energy to do anything else.

The worst thing she did was volunteer me to work on my days off without my prior knowledge or consent multiple times and tried to gaslight me into thinking that I was being ridiculous for being upset about it.

I dreaded every shift and got severe burnout which really killed my work ethic which before this was actually pretty decent. I argued constantly with my mom to let me quit and focus on school but she refused. I was barely passing any of my classes and wasn't doing well at work either.

After 9 months of that I finally snapped and had a severe mental breakdown at work which I was fired for and got yelled at by my mom afterwards who called me lazy and said I couldn't hold a job and that I wasn't going to survive in the real world like this.

I didn't even get to keep most of the money after this was all said and done and I wish I had resisted her and left the job on my own because even now I struggle with anxiety from having to go to work.

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