My husband and I are both shift managers at a Pizza Hut. For the past month they’ve been intentionally understaffing our shifts because we are the most experienced and are both hard workers and they know we’ll “figure it out,” which we were, but at great cost to our mental and emotional health. Last Saturday, at the end of one of our busiest nights with no supporting staff, we snapped, called our (boomer) boss and, once it became clear he didn’t understand the problem with overworking us, we threatened to quit, to which he backpedaled hard, and basically said he’d do whatever he could to keep us. Now we’re no longer managing, but we go in for a few hours in the morning to help set up the store and spend the rest of our time recovering from being so overworked. Mental illness and capitalism do not mix well.