I don’t know if it’s just me, but judging by some of the other posts on here, I don’t think it is. For the first year I worked here, I loved it! I loved the job, I loved my coworkers, I loved my regulars. But this past year has me questioning whether or not I want to stay with the company. Obviously, I need to right now as jobs in my area are low and I need to pay my rent, but the job just... doesn’t seem worth it.

When we came back from the Corona break, my store did a lot of what your stores have been doing - firing people over trivial things. So, most of my crew is gone (in fact, there are two closers including myself that have been there a year at this point) and the customers have just become unbearable. There’s hardly a shift that goes by that I don’t get called something derogatory by a customer that doesn’t want to wear their mask. (It’s made worse by the fact that one of our shift leads REFUSES to enforce the mask policy) I’m truly not that bothered by the comments, but it gets tiring when it’s EVERY DAY. Additionally, all I do now is task because all of our closers where hired only a few months ago and barely know how to function as it is. It’s selfish, but I just want one shift where I can just come in and bar and not have to worry about my green beans asking for help. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll always help them because they’re genuinely good kids and hard workers, but being the only one that knows what’s going on is exhausting. I just don’t have the connection to this new batch of green beans that I did with my old crew.

The regulars that are coming back have obviously no real interest in us; they only want to talk about the other regulars that haven’t come in yet. I know it’s stupid and selfish and immature, but would it kill them to just ask how we’re doing. On top of that they’re getting snippy with the green beans that don’t have their orders memorized... because they’ve never met them.

There’s nothing wrong with the job that I can pinpoint, but every time I think about going into work, I just want to cry and crawl back into bed.