When I was 16 I was working at a store with 4 other people during my shift. These guys were super cool and we all got along and work was enjoyable. We were never overworked,we always got out on time and the manager was always super chill and was never an asshole if we made a mistake. I genuinely think that job was a 10/10 and thought that working conditions like these were basically 1 in a million with how good they were.
Well a few months in we got a new employee who was an asshole from day one. He always complained to me that I was bad at my job and I cant do anything right. My manager wasn’t the one in charge of hiring or firing and the higher ups didn’t want to do anything about the mistreatment I was getting. It got to the point that I was having panic attacks whenever I worked with him and I started considering the job a 6.5/10.
At the start of December the cool manager got fired for arguing with the higher ups about him and he became the new manager. 2 of our other guys walked out that same day and I really regret not following them. Work became a living hell after that. We were constantly overworked, got out later, I had no time to take my break and nothing I did was good enough. Every day I came into work I had a panic attack and my anxiety and depression got really bad to the point I was considering ending my life because I couldn’t get another job. The only reason I didn’t resort to that was because my lungs began to start getting worse(I have a condition) and had to take a month off to recover and the head manager at the store moved me to the deli department. I was 17 at this point(still am) so now I pretty much just wash dishes. It’s not as fun as my old position used to be but my mental health has improved greatly.
It’s really sad how a job could go from being so good to causing me to want to end it all because of who’s in charge