Story time, folks!
It was a McDonalds, not bad at all considering some horror stories I've heard. I honestly kinda enjoyed the work and enjoyed the people I worked with. We never had any rude customers, none on my shift anyway, which is a bit shocking to me since it was a small town
I opened for that store for a month straight, both service and kitchen, and even after I was given shifts when the store opened, was one of their most reliable crew members. I'd cover just about any shift they asked of me and was trained to work nearly everywhere in that store. It was honestly a good gig
Aside from one manager. Theres ALWAYS that one manager. She would take me off stops I was good at because I somehow made her mad or with an excuse of I was running up our time. Which was bullshit. Our time went up AFTER she moved but, I digress.
This manager, call her Karen, was right hand to our new GM who joined a few months before. She was a COMPLETE kiss ass. Everyone knew it, even our new GM. But she didnt care.
With a new GM, this meant Karen could be a bigger asshole to us now that our old one was gone who would shut her down. Especially since this GM stayed in the office a lot of the time instead of out helping her crew.
Karen would regularly leave the building to go out to her car to either shoot up and or smoke weed. She did this at LEAST five times during JUST the morning shift. Everyday was a roulette of if shed be sweet and kind, or a total bitch if you make the smallest mistakes.
So I was done with it one day. Gave my two weeks to the manager I was opening with during the short few minutes we had before the store actually opened and our next crew member came in. She said okay, and put it in the office.
A week later, Im working table (building the burgers and such) with that same manager I gave my two weeks to. It was lunch rush and we had a small bream to the next phase. Karen was running food to the window and it seemed to be an okay day with her. And then something just clicked. I was so tired of being so stressed to come to work everyday, not knowing if I would be yelled at for getting to give a customer a straw during a rush.
So I looked at the manager, we'll call her B
Me: B… I think I want to quit
B only nodded: ..Alright. if you want to quit then I can clock you out
Me: I think.. I'll wait for the rush to be over
Thats right ladies and gentlemen. I was NICE and worked until our lunch rush was over maybe an hour later. After that, I got a refill on my drink (we got free drinks), told her I wanted to quit, so B clocked me out and snuck out the kitchen and outside the building to my car. Snuck out, because I was terrifying Karen would yell and scream at me for leaving in the middle of my shift
Hell, my anxiety qas so bad when I got home that I locked myself in the bathroom and nearly through up because I got notifications from our scheduling app. I was worried she messaged me on it telling me to get back to work or something. My mom had to check it for me. My shifts were removed from the schedule
It went down hill from there for the store. I went there for lunch about a month later, 90 percent of the staff was managers from other stores because they were so understaffed
As badass as this makes me feel, leaving a workplace that was ruining my mental health, I'm still terrified to add it to my references, because Im worried the fact I quit in the middle of my two weeks will prevent me from getting a better job in the future if that one if still recent enough to be put as a previous workplace.
I wanted to share this though, despite the fear, to hopefully encourage others who might be in a similar situation or even worse. You don't have to stay. If you have money saved up to last a month or two, then I for sure say quit. If you're able to have another job lined up, then even better.
Your new job isnt obligated to know if you put a two weeks in at your old job(unless theyre the type to actually call, then i wouldn't recommend this) just give them a starting date two weeks from your interview and then quit your current job to relax and recover your mental health before you start a new job.