I worked through the pandemic. I was yelled at, threatened, spit on, and had people pushing me. I cried myself to sleep I was so stressed. People came in yelling about “their rights being violated” and “how date we make them do anything.”
On top of that, no pay raise. Yet, I am a “needed worker” and keeping the economy afloat but I get minimum poverty wage?
So I am done.
No, I will not cover a shift. YOU make more money than me, as a manager, so YOU come in early and stay late. You ruin your sleep schedule and social life.
No, I am not staying because someone called in sick. I don't care if it is expected, you had me from 9 to 5, I am going home no later than 5:30.
No, I will not work a double. I will not ruin my sleep schedule because you don't have enough labour.
I WILL lock up the store.
I will go home.
I WILL NOT stay late, come in early, or do more work than what you pay me for.
I am absolutely done. I am emotionally exhausted. I am burned out.
I no longer care about professionalism, I no longer care about pleasing the customer.
I have ditched the customer service voice and will speak to customers the way they speak to me.
If this job is so unskilled, then you get an unskilled, lazy worker just like everyone claims we are. You get the human person, with the human reactions, and the human voice and the human attitude.
I am just personally done.