So I worked somewhere (don’t wanna tell) and I had a slight foot injury. The job required me to walk a lot and shortly after I started working there my injury started getting worse. I got a boot from a doctor to help and they let me work with that. However they would not let us sit so there were no chairs and we constantly had to stand/walk. To be honest though I already felt guilty that I was not able to be more efficient with my injury, plus I’m generally socially anxious, so I never asked them for accommodations and just dealt with it. I was too scared to tell them how bad it was really getting. Eventually I took leave of absence since the doctor put me on crutches for a month. But after the month was up it was Black Friday week. They scheduled my first day back for Black Friday and since I was still on crutches, even after a month, they were gonna put me at the register (which I had not been trained for). When I told them this they told me to come in that day for training (like 2 days before). I asked if I could not do all this but they were short staffed for Black Friday and “needed me”. At this point I was incredibly stressed out because of my social anxiety. Since it took me a while to get comfortable in my department, I was terrified of having to deal with so many customers on Black Friday when I was doing something I just learned and barely knew how to do. I had never told them about my anxiety though. I just couldn’t do it and I was scared of telling my boss this, so instead I told them that I quit. I felt so guilty that I felt like I was gonna puke, not to mention I had to tell my parents that I quit too.
It was a weird place with new hires coming and going every couple weeks. They did very poor training which made it really difficult for me to help customers with my anxiety. They also scheduled people without checking in with them a lot which led to many short staffing issues. But it was my first job so I didn’t know anything. I’m glad I’m out but also I feel really bad for how I left.