so i’m (m20) on my 4th job and been here for a month it has been amazing compared to last jobs so far! pay is shit ofc but that’s america, and i just make food for a theatre. free movies a nice perk too. fortunately the gm is the only manager people really don’t like, but i had an annoying no communication thing happen w my fav manager.
i am a full time student online, have a gf i love more than anything who lives on campus 30 min away, and a lot of shit that has happened my life to contribute to my anxiety i am medicated for. so i have a lot on my plate alongside work. on my availability sheet i said i can only work 4 days a week max, as i am a full time student and have to work most weekends because it’s a theater.
this week i was scheduled for sunday monday tuesday and today, so i assumed i had thursday friday saturday off! i even talked to my fav manager and asked and she said yea you shouldn’t work those days then. schedule gets posted and i close friday and open saturday making virtually all my plans impossible to do. also means i work 6 days this week. i ask her about it and she says we go by pay week period so 4 days a week for friday-thursday is my schedule. i was never aware of this until today and any normal human assumes 4 days a week is sunday – saturday.
so now i have to either take write ups or sacrifice my mental health and make ppl cancel things because of something i can’t control. also to mention we are short staffed as a couple ppl have been fired. i just can’t stand the fact i and others have to suffer and work more because of something we didn’t do? all for $14 an hour? i didn’t know where to post this but haven’t been this stressed in a min, this is just cherry on top of everything else making me anxious in my life rn