I was working part time at a particularly expensive grocery store owned by a particularly infamous company. The job itself was not that bad, but their attendance policy made me insane. I have missed a lot of work due to a workplace injury and underlying illness (at part time I’m not eligible for FMLA). I not only missed a paycheck but I actually missed my first week and a half of classes because I was totally immobile from the injury. I was getting about 20-30 hours a week up until recently, so I figured I’d bear it. But then a bunch of teenagers were hired and my hours got cut drastically. I asked for one day off for the first time I had been working since I started in December because we were finally fully staffed. It was denied.
Ten hours but I have to have open availability on weekends and can’t ask for one day off? I just quit. Now I’ve been having crazy anxiety about money. How will I pay for food, transportation, my cats vet bills, etc. i just keep reminding myself that at ten hours a week I wouldn’t feel much better having kept the job. I feel really bad, not for the company but for my coworkers.