Like the title says, I haven’t had an actual on the clock job since before the pandemic. I’ve done housekeeping and other side jobs and been able to be at home throughout most of the “great resignation” and now, I’m officially traumatized. I’m not even kidding. I worked for a company that is well known for treating the disabled bad, and I too was treated bad. I thought maybe this is all in my head, maybe it’s me, maybe I’m not working hard enough. But the demands, the schedule, the non existent breaks, the hateful people. It was too much. The place shut down due to Covid, so I found another job.
This job was so horrible, I thought of not being on earth no more and hurting my entire family and anyone who loved me, after only five hours. This happened tonight.
The general manager wouldn’t even speak to me, and yet this was the person I was told as I punched in, would be directing me tonight. She wanted nothing to do with it. I was told, I wouldn’t get a break for possibly 6/7 hours. I was to work 8 hours. I don’t know how anyone works that long without eating or at least regrouping. And any place doing this to their employees deserves to be shut down. Had it not been for a family member getting me this job because they worked there too, I would had thought I was the issue.
I’m taken back by what the workforce has become. I’m sad over the fact that people are being worked like slaves, for peanuts. I don’t know how people cope mentally for an entire 8 hours in either environment I worked in. I’m sorry for all of you who post here and those of you scrolling for the same reasons I come here. Simply just to try to find a way to get and do better. If it wasn’t for this sub, I’d had never even tried to find a job. This place gave me the confidence to get this far because the work world, and debating your worth to people suck. But not having a damn thing because inflation, sucks too. I don’t have the answers to nothing anymore, and feel defeated and have no hope there are decent jobs out there. It’s not even the pay for me anymore, it’s what the hell can I cope with for 8 hour shifts, because the shit will drive you insane.