This is going to be long, fair warning. I had been working for Pizza Hut for just over three years. I finally had enough and quit. I live in the northeast where it snows during the winter. we had a really bad ice storm at the beginning of February where it was literally raining ice, on top of a couple inches of fresh snow, for about 7 or 8 hours and the roads were absolutely horrible. Everybody called off due to this so we had to close for the day. I go to work the next morning (Friday) against my better judgment because I was sliding all over the place, roads were still bad but I made it.
Well, I got there and did opening cash and all that (I was a shift manager who opened 5 days a week) and the closing manager for that night called off about an hour after I got there because her car was stuck in her driveway and it was encased in ice. She has a broken back and can’t shovel snow for very long without hurting herself. Understandable. Told my boss and she threw a fit and said she’s just making excuses and the roads are fine. They weren’t, and I know she wasn’t lying, but whatever. 20ish minutes go by and two more people call off, my opening driver and CSR for the night because they were also stuck in their driveways and didn’t want to wreck.
Okay, cool. We’re now down 3 people (there were like 8 people who worked in my store total and my GM is never ever there so they dont count) on a Friday. Told my boss again and she completely lost her mind and said they need to “shovel like the rest of us” and when I brought up the fact that the manager who called off has a broken back and can’t (she knows this) she said “she has two kids, she needs to make them do it” I was pissed at this point because I actually care about my coworkers.
We’re down three people on a Friday, it’s been snowing since I left my house, and I would have been completely by myself until 4 when the night people came in. Yeah, no. I texted my boss and said I was not working in a store with no staff on a Friday when it’s been snowing all day and that I’m going home. She then calls me to tell me my area coach said not to go home and to wait for her to get there but she had no idea when that would be because she was working another store. We open in 30 mins at this point. I sighed and said okay. Couple minutes go by and I say, screw this. I’m not working this shit by myself on a Friday. Texted her and said I’m sorry but I’m not working with no staff so I am going home. She read it but ignored me.
So, I closed everything down and went home. Like three hours go by and she sends a very passive aggressive and condescending group message to everyone who called off and myself saying we are all making excuses and “they invented this amazing device called a snow shovel” and how the roads are fine and that “no one called off” so we all need to show up to open the store at 4pm even though I told her about the call offs as soon as they happened. I called her out on that and she said “yeah, you did, but that’s not how it works and you all know it” although any other time someone calls off to her when she’s not there she tells them to tell whoever is working because it’s not her problem. I was livid. Next thing she said was “No one has called off so I expect you all to be there at 4 to open the store. Area coach wants to talk to every single one of you. Call him.” I was beyond done at this point.
I sent “I am not working for someone who doesn’t care about the safety or well being of their employees. I quit.” and that was that. One of the other shift managers followed suit and quit through text too and so did the manager with the messed up back. We were her only shift managers. I felt really really bad about quitting like that but I could not take it anymore. Anytime anyone called off for any reason, even if it was a death in the family or an emergency, it was a problem and all she did was talk shit and accuse everyone of lying. My AC ended up trying to call me and texted me a few hours after this happened as if that was going to change anything. Almost 3 months later and I regret nothing. That place was draining me and I did not get paid enough for all the shit they expected from me.
Quit that job if you hate it. It’s not worth it. They most likely do not care about you.