Restaurant Workers Are Sharing Why They're Done With The Service Industry, And To Say I'm Fuming With Anger Is An Understatement

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'When everything shut down during COVID-19, I realized how much the place destroyed my mental health.'

because of the large unemployment checks I was receiving as a result of federal aid, but because as soon as I took a moment to myself, without thinking about or going to work, I realized I was drained and miserable.""I worked back-of-house for almost 10 years. I realized working 60+ hour weeks with no sick days, no benefits, zero breaks, and missing every single family holiday just wasn’t worth the measly check that restaurants provide.

"My shifts were all solo shifts, so I didn't have anyone to help if it got busy or if a customer got out of hand with me. I had regulars who would come in and treat me like a therapist, to the point where I would come home and weep because I was so emotionally overwhelmed. ""Honestly, I still work in a restaurant, but I'm chomping at the bit to get out.

"I told a manager, who thought it was fine to just make the server apologize and move on. It wasn’t, so I told another manager. An 'investigation' was launched which lasted about a week, during which I was forced to work with that server and put up with people whispering about what happened to me.

"They argued with me, told me that the city-mandated raise of minimum wage was a great raise and we were 'lucky to even have it,' and tried to convince me that all of my safety concerns were myfault because I hadn't brought them up before they announced reopening for dine-in. I was burned out from horrible customers, hadn't taken a full vacation day in my 18 months with the company, and put up with dubious safety conditions for the entire pandemic at that point.

 

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kevin419

RossYoder must agree that “people that work in restaurants are such train wrecks” since he included in this “article”. Glad he apparently cooks things because he has no business in a restaurant with this attitude.

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