So I work for a locally, family owned restaurant as a Hostess and Busser. I am supposed to be making minimum wage, which is $11.50 in my state, but I am only making $9 at this restaurant. There was already a ton of red flags when I first started. The first day, the owner of the restaurant made one of the servers cry. She made her cry just because the server was training us new hostesses. She actually quit that day. The owner said, “I don’t want you to train them. I want the other girls to train them.” But the other girls that were supposed to be training us didn’t even train us at all! They were just standing around, doing nothing. Talking to each other when they were supposed to be helping. The new girl and I were so confused, because they just threw us in without any explanation. After that, nobody taught us how to do anything. We had to learn everything ourselves and we were busy that day. Everyone also talks about each other, all the time…. I get sick of hearing it. Apparently the manager thinks I “clean too much.” Saying they’d rather have me up front than cleaning. But when I’m up front and there’s nothing to do, what else am I supposed to do?! I don’t like to stand around and not do anything. I feel like cleaning makes time go by faster. I get so stressed out thinking about going in, it actually makes my stomach hurt. I’ve already talked to my old manager about getting my job back because this is ridiculous. I only quit because I thought there would be better opportunities. My old job is so much better and easier than this crap, to be honest. My old manager said she has my number saved so I’m hoping to hear back from her soon. I’m honestly on the verge of just giving up and quitting. That place emotionally stresses me out, to the point where my stomach hurts. What do I do? Should I try to tough it out? Or just quit? Because that place gives me a headache… Oh yeah, and there’s new people coming in for work all the time. People just come and go. The people that been there for a long time make full time hours while the new people make only part time. I don’t think it’s fair IMO.