Hello everyone! I'm not sure if this is the right place to post but I wanted to share something positive.
Lately my workplace became very toxic. Most things are blamed on me, I only got a bare minimum raise that doesn't even cover the official inflation numbers, work is boring, I tend to become phisically tired just by arriving at the place, I have to constantly ask for shifts because we don't even schedule shifts anymore. Not once did I get a positive word from boss in the past months and nobody seems to care about anything anymore in general. The list goes on I feel like nothing is okay here.
So I decided to quit. I procastinated for a month but finally managed to put together my CV (the issue is that there wasn't much to put in it). I sent it to 9 places. Restaurants, actually, I want to try myself as a waiter because I already have experience in the field. It's also a good opportunity to hone my english (not a native speaker) and meet new people. Not to mention every single job offer promises – at minimum – double the pay I currently get.
The next day I got a call. Then another, and another. A few days pass and I already had interviews at the first two and the experience was great so far. The first place is a smaller,l but very fancy restaurant/hotel next to a big opera house led by a kind (and extremely sexy but that's beside the point) lady, and the other one is a ridiculously expensive sea food place with a chill new-ish dude at the head. A steak house also called me asked me for an interview. Next week I'm going there and do some test days at the other two places.
Now, when I go to work to the old place, I'm strangely aloof. I don't care about the issues anymore. I did not even realize how much all the bullshit weighed me down. But now my collegues (many of whom I considered my friends in the past) can talk whatever they want. Just like my boss, they mean nothing now. Even if my boss tried to withhold my last pay for example, I wouldn't care. I have enough until my new workplace pays me. I don't think he would do that, but that's the point. He could do his worst and it would still be nothing but a distant, minor inconvenience.
As of now, my boss doesn't yet know I'm gonna quit. He will though, once I sign my new papers. And I going to tell him about the unequal pay, the double standards, the verbal abuse, the apathy coming from every direction everything. Or not, maybe I'll just send him my resignation document and do nothing else. Either way I'm going to enjoy it. In fact, I enjoy everything even now, because I know it's changing for the better very soon.
If you've read this far. Wow. Thank you for listening to my rambling and also sorry for it. Have a fantastic day, you lovely stranger from the other side of the screen!
P.s.: I probably made a lot of grammar errors, sorry.