Working this week feeling awful, sick but food safe... Wish I could justify calling out but I need the money and don't want to screw over my team. I misread my shift on Teamworks yesterday, thinking it started at 2 but I guess it was 12. At 12 I was on the phone with a doctor discussing whether it was safe (FOR ME) to work, when I got off the phone I saw the text asking if I was coming in. I felt awful and rushed over as soon as possible.

No matter how rough my life is going, I really try to never bring my sadness and pain to work with me because we really don't need that shit to make this job even harder. I clock in and comment to my shift, well at least it's not crazy in here. He goes off on me about don't I dare tell him about busy, had to give a late break, etc. It was the closest I've come to breaking down at work in a long time, but I was careful not to show it. It just seemed so unfair that I was putting myself through some real pain and happened to make a mistake, which no amount of scolding was going to fix anyway.

Look, partners. I get you. I get that it's hard. I would never ever want someone on my team to feel like they can't have an off day. If you need a day to just wash dishes and not talk, please just say something. And have a heart if someone does... Assuming the best applies to each other as well. You don't have to be a ray of sunshine, goodness knows I'm not, but Starbucks isn't our third place. It's our second. That matters.