My employer didn't schedule me for an entire whole ass week, and only put me on one shift this week. I'm leaving for a surgery next week so this could be why, I'm thinking, plus new employees. But still. This leaves me with a shitty cheque while I'm coming back from surgery.
The second thing, after that entire week of being off (uncalled for?) I realized just how much I hate the job, the customers, and not to mention the workload has increased tremendously. We have to upsell to the max. There's a new thing to upsell every damn day. There's 8 books to find the time during busy shifts to sign off on now. Also, a new, labour intensive menu item that isn't worth the money that they're peddling out to customers. None of those items are.
I'm just tired of being treated this way. Thankful that I'll be away for a minimum of six weeks, but I know when I come back I'm just going to hate it so much more and probably feel like I need to be re-trained and be an inconvenience to my co-workers. Like you all, I don't want to work, but I also don't have much of a choice because of this shitty system. I've still got bills and rent to pay, I don't have savings and even if I did, it wouldn't last very long. I used to not mind this job for it's simplicity for my mentally ill brain, but with all this increased workload for the same pay? It's just not worth it. I'm not even allowed to have a proper lunchbreak without clocking out, and a lunchbreak is going to be so crucial to my health after this surgery.
I plan to look for different work while I'm recovering but I know deep down it's all going to be the same. I guess I just can't be in food service anymore. What they expect from us just tears me apart and it's all so hard to handle. I shouldn't have to feel like this, like I want to use my recovery time to look for new work. I don't want to use it like that. I want to use my recovery time to do exactly that, recover. Nothing is changing about work in this society and it's depressing.
EDIT: Also, the concept of communal aprons at work is fucking disgusting. Why does this exist?