My grandma got me hired as a dietary aide for a nursing home. I hate kitchen work so already the job was stressing me out but as soon as I hired a couple people quit/got the boot. We’re severely understaffed so its really hard to get any days off if you don’t plan them months ahead and even then its a swing and miss. My grandma guilt trips me for not taking on extra hours and I know they’re always understaffed but the job is stressful enough for my own shifts. Recently, mothers day to be exact, I was scheduled a 11-7:45. Simple enough. Well the nursing staff mostly called out that day so the trays from dinner weren’t brought back down. I told my boss over text that my shift ends at 7:45 and I shouldn’t have to stay on mothers day, when nobody else did. She said to watch my tone if I didn’t wanna be fired. I was furious since I was just explaining I wanted to leave on time. She said “a year ago the staff would have pulled together and made a miracle happen with team work and that I wasn’t showing a can do spirit.” Im paid 12 dollars and thats not enough for me to care about a corporation. It feels illegal sometimes how often they want you to come in and pick up shifts from all the other people there who just always call in. I had to do two shifts in a day one time because they said there was no one there. They gave me a bonus but still, Id like my work life to be separated from my personal one!! This is more of a rant but I had to share how awful of a job it is