I FINALLY FUCKING QUIT MY JOB

I finally quit my shitty job at Smoothie King. I can’t believe I did it. At first, I felt like a piece of shit for abandoning my coworkers and making the schedule difficult since I was scheduled for 28 hours, but after several sychronities and signs I’ve been seeing that were screaming at me to quit, I finally did. Well, technically, my bosses don’t know yet. But they’ll know once I stop coming to shifts. I know the normal thing to do is to give a two-week notice. But I don’t give a fuck anymore. I’ve been treated like absolute dogshit ever since working this job and my mental health has taken the toll. I’m finally doing something for myself and not cowering to everyone’s beck and call. I feel so free. Yesterday, I clocked out of work, and that’ll be the last time they’ll ever see me. I even blocked my bosses' numbers and the work landline phone number so they have no way of contacting me. Sure, this’ll fuck over everyone working, but I need to be selfish for once. It’s not like my bosses gave a fuck after all they’ve put me through, so why should I care if they can’t find anyone to fill in my hours? I’m sick of people pleasing and this stupid martyrdom bullshit I’ve been doing for years. I’m finally doing something for myself and making my own choices. I’m finally taking the reins of my life. Right now, sure, I still feel anxious as fuck. But I’m not going to care what they think anymore. Sometimes, I forget that I have free will. And I'm exercising that right now by just quitting without saying anything. They can figure it out on their own. 

So let me explain all that has happened that led up to me going MIA and quitting my shitty food service job. So, the first warning sign was from one of my bosses, James. He was just really nitpicky about everything. It’s one thing to just wanting your employees to be well-trained, to just being a picky asshole and mansplaining. This will literally happen during almost every shift whenever he’s around. The second red flag was his constant monitoring of the cameras and lying to my face that the cameras don’t have audio, when me my coworkers and clearly all know that it does. He’ll even use this to his advantage to threaten his employees or stir up drama despite him wanting to keep a “drama-free” workplace (which I will get to later).

 Third red flag was when I found out that tips weren’t distributed evenly. They are rather distributed to whoever was “working the hardest,” which just enabled favoritism, so I always got the scraps despite how hard I worked while this one other coworker of mine did the bare minimum. The fourth red flag was something that I found out about the tip prompt on the card reader when taking card transactions: the tips don’t go to us at all. They go to my bosses. Since no one really carries physical cash anymore, people just tend to tip on there. And they think that money is going to whoever served them. Plot twist: it doesn’t. 

Fifth red flag was when he’d have no shame in yelling at me for the simplest mistakes and the lack of information they gave me, leading for me to mess up. It’s like they love keeping me uninformed almost, despite me asking repeatedly to be properly trained. Sixth red flag was when one of my coworkers, Soleil, was working one day, and this guy from the DARE drug prevention for kids guy was telling her that they’re going to set up somewhere NEAR the area, to which she didn’t see a problem with since it wasn’t like they were going to put their set up at the front of the store right?

 Wrong, the guy practically lied to her and by the time she noticed the set up at the front of the store, she and my other coworker, Larissa, were working on a long list of orders to be made. Then, James calls the store to which Soleil picks up and starts yelling at her, telling her to tell the DARE guy to get the fuck out or else he’s calling the police. Soleil was busy making smoothies, so he got Larissa to do it. Then, this was the catalyst: once Larissa got the DARE guy to do away, James then starts talking shit about Soleil and starts calling her a dumb bimbo behind her back, to which Larissa tells Soleil that he said that. Soleil then quit and tells me over text what happened when she texted James that she quit over what he said about her. THEN, James starts going off on Larissa, blaming her for Soleil quitting and saying how he could’ve pressed charges for Larissa ‘stealing’ (she literally only added extra stuff to her free team member smoothie)  and all that nonsense. Larissa didn’t like being talked to like that so she quit.

 For context, Larissa was my work best friend since we always did closing shifts together. So, her quitting was just devastating. Since we were already understaffed, them quitting made it all the more worse, so, naturally, all of those hours went to me and the last two original coworkers. Sure, we finally got two new people, but they’re really inefficient at their job and poorly trained, so I had to take the bulk of the work and responsibilities.Once they quit, my bosses then start telling me their warped version of what happened, and I just listened, pretending that I didn’t already know the truth just to see what they’d say. And wow. They are fucking horrible people. Plus, I already hate my job as it is, and without Larissa or Soleil, it was pointless to stay. After working four days without them. I finally decided that enough was enough. So yeah, I'm basically never returning without telling my bosses anything at all.