I’m a 17y/o high schooler who since the day I turned 15 has worked at this small grocery store in a medium sized city in the US. When I first started working I worked one day a week and slowly built up to 4 days roughly 24 hours a week while being a student full time. I was able to handle it well while maintaining good grades. When I first heard that the minimum wage was getting raised I ecstatic I planned on working more in the summer then I did in the school year. But today the manager of my Friday shift came up to me with the new schedule. He said “hey, because of the minimum wage raise [owner] is prioritizing adult employees which means we’re gonna have to dock some of your shifts. We’re only going to give you Thursday 4-7 and Saturday 1-7”. I was shocked to say the least. I had been working at this store longer than the majority of adult employees. And not only that I had been trying harder. Trying my absolute best to be as nice as possible to all the decrepit, spiteful, old assholes who bark orders at me all day like I’m a dog just because they’re the customer. The day before my boss told me this I had to pretend to be chipper while counting out a customers 6.99 in pennies, AFTER CLOSING because my manager doesn’t kick customers out and instead lets them finish shopping. I’m so sick of this bullshit. I’m practically out of a job for this summer and all this hard work and pretending to be nice to customers who don’t deserve it was for nothing. Should I just quit and find somewhere that won’t throw me away like human garbage for the summer?