I (30m) feel very done with the gas station I work at. Many of the coworkers there are some of my best friends and I know the work very well-I just can't take it anymore.
The shifts gossip about other shifts all the time, people don't show up for their shifts frequently, turnover can be high and I'm constantly having to deal with ornery customers. Plus, there is a new assistant store manager that actually threatened several people with “contacting HR” for extremely minor things. One of those employees was on the phone with her mom for all of 5 minutes in a dead traffic moment of the shift. The other has a legitimate, documented medical condition that the manager weaponized to say they could be fired over it!
I make $16 an hour there but I am not considered a manager. I've been offered but I just don't want to move up. I don't even know if I want to transfer because whose to say this situation won't happen again?
My question is, how do I leave? From the outside, I have a good job. I don't have a specific incident to cite like others and I am well liked at the job. I just can't stand the passive-agressive, bossy atmosphere anymore and want out. These people that are getting picked on are my friends.
TLDR: My job of 3 years is driving me crazy with its culture and the anxiety the atmosphere gives me. But I feel like I don't have an actual reason to leave. Not one that I could explain to the store manager.