I have been at the same job for almost 6 years, and I've only really worked 2 other places. I got lucky with getting good managers, my first job had terrible hours, never met my manager outside of the interview and handing in my resignation.
The second job I had a great manager, but they lost half the 6 person staff at once due to various unrelated events (one moved back home to care for their ailing mother, one got a job in their actual field of study, and one left to go back to school full time.) The increased workload just became too much for me so I moved to my current job.
I absolutely love my managers, they do their best to keep shit from falling down onto us at a lower level, they work closely with the union to make sure there is no disconnect between what the management wants vs what the union wants, and are just all around great people.
My partner recently graduated and has had 5 jobs in the last 6 months. All of them had terrible management and treated her like shit.
1) hired her when she let them know she was getting surgery, was open about the process and healing time and they hired her. Then a new manager stepped in, the day after the new manager found out they let her go. And then became super cagey about why.
2) one hired her, then rescinded the offer the day before she started, after she had already turned down other jobs.
3) 3 was a wild ride. So they have 2 locations, one about 30 minutes from where we live, one about 2 hours. They said she would be hired at the location 30 minutes away, but wanted her to train for the first week at the location 2 hours away. Once she got their for her first shift the manager told her she would not be moved to the closer location. They also scheduled her for a “clopen” for her first two shifts, knowing her commute was over 2 hours. The threatened to write her up when she yawned on the floor.
4) 4 seemed fine for a bit. But after she had a covid scare and called in for it. Let them know she was getting tested, and then when it came back negative they refused to let her come back into work for the full 10 day isolation despite her no longer having symptoms and having 2 back to back negative tests after 4 days. Once she was back they told her she wouldn't be getting a raise from her training at 4 weeks like they said, but instead would have to wait until the 6 month mark because she “missed too many days, and appears to be lazy”.
5) the most recent one. They are a brand new restaurant. They opened 2 weeks ago. My partner asked for 2 reasonable requests: to get placed on more early shifts than late shifts. And to have every other Wednesday off for her psychiatrist appointment. The manager said that they wouldn't do that, because there is nothing she should care about besides work, and they don't care about her mental health because “it isn't real anyway”.
I don't know what I am getting at with this, but I'm just fucking exhausted on my partners behalf and also grateful for not having to deal with terrible management.