Three months.
It was three months of working for this company before I finally hit my breaking point, although I should have left far far sooner then I did.
This was for a company that owns many many convenience stores and car washes in the northeast. I was hired on as an MIT (manager in training) at one of their car wash locations. As of day one I was training myself because the “manager” would find every excuse to clock in then go home and not come back until time for him to clock out. I was routinely scheduled for 60 hour weeks, and got maybe one day off every two weeks if I was lucky. All for a whole 15.25 an hour.
Then about a month ago the manager who was supposed to be training me on how to do the managerial stuff quit, so suddenly I’m manager of this location. Pay bump of 75 cents… maintenance refused to ever do work at this location saying that “I should have been trained how to do it” so for 16 bucks an hour I was expected to be plumber, electrician, mechanic, and do all the day to do.
People kept quitting left and right because of low pay and horrible treatment, so it got down to me having two employees. I was expected to work 10 hour days 7 days a week and just get over it.
District manager would email me constantly telling me that I wasn’t doing paperwork correctly yet would ignore every email of me saying “you know I wasn’t trained, how am I supposed to do it then?” So I was being set up to fail.
my breaking point was when they finally sent someone to help me for one day so I could have a day off, and I find out that all he did that day was read every email I’ve sent and ask my employees everything I’m doing wrong… not so they could train me better but so he could try and replace me.
That was my breaking point. I fired off an email to HR, left my keys on the desk and left.
Value yourselves more then the people you are working for. I’ve never felt such a relief from stress in my life as I have the past few days since I left that place.