For Christmas I gave myself the gift of quitting after over 2 years with the company. I worked under 5 SM’s not including the other 4 that ran my store when my store manager took cat pay. After the 3rd official manager I transferred stores because I didn’t like what I was seeing - management style was questionable at best so I moved to a store about 20-25 minutes away to what I hoped was a store with a manager that would value us as human beings. I quickly found out that that was a unrealistic goal- I have truly never felt like less of a human and more of a machine. It got to a point where I would panic every time the store manager was near me because it usually meant I was about to get yelled at or scolded in some way. Like I said I was a 2 year partner and I’m not saying there wasn’t room for improvement but I knew how to do my job and do it well. I was getting to work early (4 am) on RP days voluntarily to help put away the order among other things and I was constantly being called out for the smallest of details and I finally had enough. After i put in my two weeks she shortened it to a week and a half because I put my two weeks in on a Wednesday because that makes sense. She also took my green apron card folder off the board the day I put in my two weeks which defiantly wasn’t petty at all. I’m working at a specialty coffee shop now and actually learning the science behind everything! I’m actually able to invest in customers and coworkers because I’m not running around like a chicken with its head cut off to get window times under 38 seconds so I’m honestly thriving😂