For the most part, I like my job. When we are fully staffed throughout the late night, it’s a breeze. I go in at 10pm, do what I need to do and get out at 6am. I even get paid extra for working overnights, not that it’s a lot, but it’s something.
Lately though, we’ve been bare bones when it comes to employees, and it’s wearing me out. Since we are the only 24 hour convenience store/gas station in my city, we are constantly busy and barely have enough people to run the cash register, cook, bake and put away the nightly truck. Most of the time I’m the one doing both bakery and kitchen, while it’s only one person out on the floor.
Doing this 6 days in a row with, sometimes, a single day off in between is getting to me.
I know there really isn’t a lot I can do. I want to stay because I like my coworkers and my boss is fine (for the most part), plus I have rent and bills to pay. But the stress of high par levels/sales expectations and dealing with rude/drunk customers all while making barely above minimum wage, it just makes me depressed.
This company constantly brags about how much profits are up, why can’t they pay more employees more? I apologize for the rant, I just feel like this job is robbing any sort of motivation I may have to enjoy a life outside of work. It sucks but what can you do, yk?