I just need to vent. I’m a student at university and I’m in my third year. I worked in retail for the first 1 and a half years, and then I left to work for a firm. I couldn’t hack it with uni so I left and took a break. In that time I devoted myself to doing other things, getting involved with the university and things like that, so I had something to write about for the gap.
Fast forward to last month, I decided it was time to pick something up as I needed the money. I had an interview for a “team member” and it was posted online with a vague automated description. I get to the interview and I’m told I can go in a few different departments. I pick one and she offers me the job there and then without even giving me time to think. I was happy with this at the time though so I accepted.
Then I do all the onboarding stuff, and I get my rota. I see my shifts start at 4am. I’m like surely this is a mistake. When we discussed my hours she said I’d be doing 12 a week and the pattern was 7:45-12.
I email to say there’s an issue, my shifts are showing that I start at 4am. They say no no, that’s your start time.
I roll with it. Let me preface this by saying I’m not a morning person, never have been, never will be. But I’m thinking the woman who interviewed me was so nice I don’t want to let her down (BIG mistake- they don’t actually care about you).
I get into my department and things start going south. The actual work was good. The management are not. My manager is extremely rude. The first time I met her I greeted her with a smile and said hi I’m (name). And she just stood there. Staring at me. I say bye to her at the end of the shift, and she just GLARES AT YOU. Like what?!?
Anyway, I start requesting time off for exams. This was discussed in my interview. They are all rejected. I query this and I’m told it’ll be sorted. It’s been a week and nothing has changed. Same for a weekend I needed off for a ball that I have organised on behalf of the uni (this is the type of thing I was doing during my gap). Again, discussed in interview but rejected immediately after requesting it.
Between being told the wrong information about my start time (and considering it’s 4am this is a big deal), my manager being rude as hell and having all of my important holiday requests rejected, I am done.
So I put my notice in and called in sick for the next week so I don’t have to go back. I can’t face the management because I feel like I’ll genuinely get into trouble. They shouldn’t get away with this. And yet here I am, feeling like the world’s worst person for leaving a job after 1 month.