Up until four months ago, I worked at a pizza place that changed our individual working hours every week.
Two months before I ultimately decided to turn in my two weeks notice, I caught covid and had to take five days off. Upon ending my quarantine, I got a booster shot, which made the next day of work feel like hell.
The week after, I noticed that my hours went from 25 in a week to 15 in a week, meaning that I'd just barely make enough in a month to cover my rent. I asked my gm why my hours took such a dip and she said it was because my performance took a dip and that she heard this from my coworkers.
I thought it was ridiculous that she was basing this on a time where I was clearly incapacitated but I busted my ass over the next couple weeks to get my hours back anyhow. I asked my coworkers if I could improve on anything and it turned out my gm had been telling them each the same thing as justification to trim their hours too.
One night, business is going really slow and an employee who wasn't scheduled to work comes in. Labor goes up as a result and someone has to be sent home. I'm almost singled out for it but I basically begged them not to because I need to get my hours back, so they let me stay a bit later.
By the time I did get my normal hours back, I had already interviewed for my current job. My gm made a joke about how I had a “meltdown” when they told me to go home that night so I outright told her that I was scared that the number of hours I was left with wasn't going to yield enough income for me to get by.
By that point, it's looking like I'm about to get the new job and I'm just waiting for the green light to put in my two weeks. Two days before I got the confirmation about my new job though, my gm called me crying that the place had gotten shut down because of an out-of-nowhere business decision made by our owner in another state. All of my former coworkers got laid off without so much as a 24 hour notice.
4 months later, I'm far happier with my new job but still pissed off about how I and everyone else there had to suffer the constant double standards and ultimately got screwed over for it. They all deserved better.
Also I feel like I was robbed of the satisfaction of quitting, even though my boss' fate ended up being much worse and possibly more satisfying.