For context, I’m 17 years old and I’ve had this job for almost a year. The owner of the cafe that I work in is a family friend, but recently we have moved to a bigger to a new location. It’s much larger and we are really understaffed especially since 3 people quit. One of them was pregnant and the other had a major surgery coming up but I don’t know about the third one. Another person is going to quit in the next month or so due to graduating from college. I really want to quit, but right now pretty much all of the people are new. They need training, etc.
During my last shift the owner pulled me out to talk to me. When things get slow and there’s no cleaning to do, I thought it would be okay to do my homework. I did that for a week or so until one of my coworkers told him. I genuinely didn’t know that it was a big deal and that it wasn’t allowed so I was like okay. Then he said that my coworkers have been saying that I don’t do what is asked of me and he said basically along the lines of “I knows our parents know each other, so my mom would want you to work here, but we are hiring new people”. It didn’t register to me right away, so I completely ignored that line and asked when did I ever not do something that I was supposed to. He couldn’t even give me an example. Nonetheless, he was like okay then it’s all sorted out, don’t do your homework and follow the rules. However, once I got to my station I just started bowling my eyes out and clocked out without telling him because I was done, I was thinking that I’m going to tell him that I’m quitting. I realized that the thing he said about our parents basically meant that he would fire me if he could. I asked if I could talk to him and mentioned what he said. He got defensive and said no I need you to work here, you are one of the few people that have been working here for long so you need to train them and that he doesn’t want me to quit and blah blah. He let me leave early nonetheless since I was just a mess and couldn’t stop crying plus I had a 2 AM flight next day.
On Monday I have to go back to work since I return from my vacation, but I genuinely dread it. I HATE being a cashier: I hate talking to customers and having them yell at me about their order not being ready yet even though its out of my control how fast they are made. I am really saddened that I found out that my coworkers all freaking hate me. The one person that I actually like there is going to quit soon too… I really want to quit but I don’t have the guts.I don’t even know how I would do it. What if he doesn’t let me?