I've been working at a drive thru cafe for a few months. It's been nothing more than a 15-20 hour a week gig to pay the bills while I study.
The pay is woeful and the conditions are a joke. For example, the AC broke (I live in a tropical climate) and it's easily 50 degrees C in the shop. We're expected to transport the rubbish in our own car.
It's exactly the kind of job that people would leave pretty frequently because there are a million similar but better jobs out there.
Last week, I was unexpectedly offered a student support job at my university. It's essentially a 70% pay rise with better conditions and hours so I won't have to work so much and have my study schedule interrupted.
As soon as I found out, I gave 2 weeks notice at the cafe and explained that the new job will just be a better fit for my life. Nothing personal.
A couple of people have resigned since i started and there were no dramas. However, since I resigned, I've been treated with disdain by the manager and the owner. When I'm not getting the silent treatment, I'm getting blamed for things that happened when I wasn't even at work.
What is so different about me resigning? The manager has never really liked me since she started a few months after me, so inthoight she'd be happy to see me gone! And how can it be such a shock to leave a minimum wage job with such obviously shitty conditions when there are so many better jobs out there? Ugh.