Just finished my first 8-hour shift early. I'm in so much fucking pain. I have stood and walked for eight hours straight, I'm literally in the staff room crying right now waiting for my lift home.
My knees ache, I have shooting pains in my hips. The arches of my feet feel like they're folding in on themselves. My toes and heels are bleeding. My feet feel like they've been through an industrial crusher.
I'm sticky and covered in beer, and I literally cried in front of my manager from the sheer amount of pain I'm in. Half my job is taking orders at a fucking till, and there are no chairs for any of us. Past 10, there's no-one here, and we're still standing even though there's nothing to do. I got to sit up here because my arches gave out putting glasses away and I swear I crumpled like a Coke can in an Oddly Satisfying video.
And tommorrow I do it all again, because I need to fucking eat.
I want a goddam chair. I want more than 30 mins paid break to sit down. I don't want to have to take five minutes pretending to piss because I'm scared I'm going to collapse. I don't want to end my shift almost puking from the pain.
This isn't worth minimum wage. I just don't want to stave and get evicted at the same time. And there are people who get to sit down all day say they think I should be grateful.
I hate this.