for context, i’m 19 and work casual in a bakery section in a supermarket to make my living wage. i work 30 + hours per week while halfway through my teaching degree. I am currently the only staff member who can be relied on to do the work; the staff have not trained anyone to do the work as it’s an autonomous work environment. It’s one person at a time who runs and handles the inventory and ovens and sales (without any help from anyone else and no training prior). I sometimes can forget to come into work due to having to balance between university and work. My management have an extremely high turnover rate and it’s very often to only see someone for two weeks before never seeing them again; due to harassment and overall lack of care towards their workers. My management never care or understood my need to be at university and don’t understand why i cannot work full time and do my degree online.
I often spend most nights unable to sleep for a fear that i will be terminated from work and not afford my groceries and university expenses.
All i seem to think about is how we’ve caused a society of fearful working class citizens over such a short amount of time.
Is it so normal to be so fearful of the workforce at such a young age?