I work in a charter school. The school itself is a chaotic mess(like most of them). I've been working in the cafeteria for over a year and I love many parts of it, but this school year has been a nightmare compared to last.
Our cafe boss is a self described harsh and cold hearted person. I think she takes pride in that. Last year, a week into summer break, I saw her job posted online. I was shocked as she never said anything before the school year ended about her leaving. I waited the whole summer expecting some type of announcement from her, I talked about it to my coworkers I saw during the summer & some didn't believe me initially. But then on the first day of school, our boss wasn't there & we had a new supervisor with very little food service & management experience. Most of my coworkers found out our boss left on the first day of the school year.
However! She has still been our boss remotely from a different state. They could not find a replacement for her & apparently stopped trying after the summer.
This is not working out, our kitchen is being run horribly & there are so many issues happening. Most of the staff are friends at this point, we've gotten together to talk about the issues, some of us have expressed our complaints to our remote boss. We sent emails detailing specific problems & then had a team meeting with our boss on the phone who talked down on us for sending the emails.
I am relatively young, in college, and I am wasting time and energy getting worked up over these issues. I love my coworkers but I don't want to care about the cafe anymore.
I asked for a custodial job a couple weeks ago, as that's what I do in the summer & I enjoy it. The custodial manager was very excited to take me, and just told me yesterday that I officially have a spot for next school year. She told me I can put my notice whenever I'm ready. I said I'd do it next week, and then she said I should wait until closer to the end of the year. There's 2 weeks left. She is very worried about how my remote cafe boss will react to me leaving.
We have 2 weeks left of serving kids, and then a cleaning day after the last week. I think I want to give my notice on the Monday of the last school week. A coworker said I should do it on the very last day. I wouldn't be so confused and anxious if the custodial manager didn't seem so worried about it. What is the worst my cafe boss could do, get mad at me?? She treats me like a child, and has told me to my face that she's harsh with others and not with me because other people can handle it. I don't know what to expect from her.
I'm curious to know how others would handle this, I'm very anxious about doing the wrong thing here. It's a very weird situation for me.