To preface im sorry for how long this is. Also im posting this on a side account that I havent really used yet
I worked in the dishroom of a country reasturant for around 5 months. when I started working there I worked 3 days a week on various shifts. This may be important but I am 16, and I do not go to school. For the last 3 months or so I was working 5 days a week for 8 hours a day. No breaks. Im not sure if thats normal or not. On our busiest days the managers would just leave us to drown. No one would be in the dishroom to break down bustubs, or spray, or anything for an hour or so at a time, and they wouldnt call anyone in. They did this, I assume, to save money.
EVERY. SINGLE. SUNDAY. when I would get there it was a mess. Dishes everywhere and we would be there till 11 or 12pm sometimes when we were meant to get off at 10. You dont get paid overtime either until you get over 40 hours and i hardly ever reached 37 hours by the end of the work week.
Well I hit my breaking point last thursday. I had been receiving updates in the dishroom from coworkers on the state of the dishroom, no one was in there for a good hour and a half. I was already panicking when we were driving there, but when I went in I felt my blood run cold. The floors were covered with food and broken dishes and bustubs packed with dishes. I went to the managers office (they were in there chit chatting ofc) I asked when someone else would be coming in. Now at this point it was 4pm. They told me the other dishwasher would be coming in at 5:30… That was after i had to ask her multiple times before she would give me an answer.
At this point i was done. I was crying and done with eveyone and eveything at this point. The manager had offered help but she was just making things worse and not properly washing the dishes. So I left. I grabbed my bag, clocked out, and left. I cried really hard, I sobbed.
I still feel horrible, I love my coworkers. I had friends there, but i couldn't handle these grown ass adults relying on me to run a dishroom by myself. I just needed to get this out and see if someone could tell me if i over reacted or if the are asses. I still feel like an ass, I always imagined quiting in a good way with a 2 weeks notice and everything, so I feel like i fucked eveyone over.