I WAS a back of house at a pizza place where i live, but it got to the point where i was working every day on a consistent basis, and i got so stressed that i was regularily getting ill. Colds, fevers, nausea, vomiting, etc. I only ever got monday off because we were closed. Otherwise i was always working.
This store had an issue with bad ownership. I had to wait through four months of wasted biscuits for them to finally replace a freezer.
But their biggest mistake was joe (fake name).
Joe was the new gm. He worked at this pizza place since he was thirteen. He was brought in because the old gm quit due to the stress causing her to have thoughts of ending it. Issue is Joe is 20. And racist. And homophobic. And knows nothing about running a restaurant. Because if he did, he would have known that no matter the cause, in my state it is ILLEGAL to have someone who has been throwing up handle food.
Because he had me cooking chicken. And told me to “suck it up”. The leads were no better because “i needed to be there” and i “take too much time off”.
When i literally threw up on myself, joe literally essentially said “tough luck.” I put in my two weeks the first time then walked out the second.