u/Bucketheadblondie

I’m working at a location that gets very little foot traffic, so our food court loses way too much money than it needs to. No full time employees.
I take pride in my work and I love my job, but all my coworkers are burnt out and we can’t keep new hires.
New manager doesn’t have a supervisor, and he is never around cause he is doing paperwork, and other manager stuff.
Manager is trying to make changes but all the older employees refuse to implement them, I’m starting to think I should just transfer out, but I really do love the food court. Any advice from anyone who stayed?

Hello! I (23F) have struggled with constant travel, homelessness, and mental health issues and have had dozens and dozens of jobs, 15+ different kinds, all surface level cause I never stick around long.

Later last year I got a job at Costco wholesale, and it’s the first time I’ve gotten a job that I’ve wanted to work up in. A business I (decently) respect and the work is reasonable. I genuinely thought Costco was going to be like heaven vs hell compared to other jobs.

Well I’ll coming up on my 10 months and I’ve worked the food court the whole time. Arguably the worst department but the easiest to move up in.
I’ve taken my job and effort very seriously to be the best employee in that department.

But without going too into it, I’ve learned that nobody else really cares about anything in my department. Not even my manager. Nobody wants to work together to make things go smoothly, or work together to communicate.
We hire people and they’re gone within 3 months, we can’t keep employees because our department sucks, training, workload, customers are all awful.
The effort I put in is disgusting, I’m in constant pain physically (endometriosis) and I still try my best to be the fastest most efficient person there. Picking up slack and always moving, cleaning, stocking, whatever.

I’m just burnt out, I just want to do the bare minimum like everyone else. But I just don’t know how to stop caring.
I cry in my car after work from how stressed and anxious it makes me and that feels ridiculous.
Am I taking a GROCHERY store job to seriously?
How do you all balance your work and life while also trying to be good at work?