When I finished college last year, I got an alright paid café job just to keep money coming in while I searched for a Real Job™️. I immediately hated it. Rude af staff, bad and very unhygienic routines, and the management is absolutely useless. I’ve realised the staff were rude because they all hated working there.
When I requested my contract, the manager just looked at me and said “Oh we don’t use them here”. Frankly I thought that was illegal here, but apparently not, and I never heard anything more about the matter. I since learned that some staff in another part of the business have contracts, so they blatantly lied to me. The staff turnover is really high and they act as if nobody deserves them and that they’re always doing us favours, when in reality they’re giving the rota out the day before, holding back holiday pay from certain employees and generally being AHs.
The café sells slush and soft serve ice cream, and there are no manuals available for either machine. Out of curiosity I googled the recommended cleaning routines, and found that they should both be cleaned at least three times a week – the ice cream one is cleaned once a week and the slush machine was only cleaned twice in the last 6 months!
The business is family run, so there’s no opportunity of taking any issues to a higher level, or I would have long ago.
Now to what I need help with. See, I finally got offered a Real Job™️, and now I need tips to the manner of which I should leave my job. My current plan is to just walk out and never come back, before messaging them to say I won’t be in on Monday, but is that too little? I want them to feel the burn, as they depend on me covering quite a few shifts.