I (19F) have been working in fast food for over a year, as well as doing university full-time. I have only stuck around for this long because I am uneligible for government benefits until at least July, and I need a way to pay rent/groceries. I am also doing a traineeship as it's essentially the only way to get guaranteed hours per week, and I can't live off of working only twice a week.
For as long as I've been there, the rosters have been a complete fucking mess. Putting people on when they've said they can't work, rostering high schoolers to start at 3pm, flat-out not getting shifts covered… it'a atrocious. This all accumulated to the end of December last year, where I ended up in hospital in the middle of work (I was unharmed but I went there for precaution) and fell into a depression relapse episode for 2 months. After this, someone else took over making rosters. There were a few errors here and there, but nowhere near as bad as before.
They've now since reverted back to the old manager who used to make them, and they've been completely fucked once again. I'm sick of it. I'm extremely close to telling my managers I won't come into work if they cannot get staff in, but I don't want to risk my job. I'm already feeling myself falling back into a depressive episode that's being made worse by the stress of work. It's so tiring.
I don't need advice or anything, I just really needed a place to get my frustrations out, because I despise this place and cannot wait to get out.