My store is beyond toxic (VERY LONG POST/RANT)
I know at least someone from my store is going to see this and I genuinely don’t give a fuck because I already put my two weeks in and got a new WAYYY better paying job.
This job was genuinely fine last year aside from a few misunderstandings and drama with our old CTE which resolved fairly quickly and wasn’t a huge deal compared to what’s been going on since last October-November ish since our new store manager started working here…
I only work in the cafe, so let me just explain what has happened. It’s genuinely so much I have to do bullet points.
-Schedule went from having 3 people on the weekends and two people 9-5:30 and 12-8:30 on weekdays (this is fine we are a low volume store) to having the ABSOLUTE BARE MINIMUM schedule (usually 9-5 and 4-8:30 most days. Absolutely unacceptable even for a low volume store)
-Extreme hour cuts to the point where I can barely pay my rent each month (I am literally getting 9-13 hours some weeks)
-People just allow another bookfloor manager to straight up target and harass me for small minuscule things that NO OTHER MANAGER gets on me for when I close (she literally got on me for TINY crumbs that were genuinely MELDED into the ground and claimed the lobby was dirty, accused me of not sweeping and mopping WHEN I DID BOTH ANTICIPATING SHE WOULD SAY SOMETHING AND SHE STILL FOUND AN ISSUE)
-i confronted said manager on this and actually started arguing for once and going at it with her because mind you, I’ve spoken to numerous people in the store and they all agree she targets me… yet no one says anything even when they are directly witnessing it. I was getting into it with said manager the other day and another manager that was present just stood silently and witnessed it, like the spineless bastard they and almost everyone else is at my store, and got mad AT ME because it escalated to me calling her a schizo for imagining things LMAOOO. If anyone from my store is reading this they’re gonna know its me and again I don’t give a fuck, most of y’all deserve to be fired or demoted!! Yall are incompetent as hell and putting everything onto well meaning people who just want to go to work and go home.
-Sorry I have trouble condensing my thoughts but I already had to go to HR about her and another manager regarding an incident where I was sent home for not completing my job duties fast enough when I informed the managers when I came in I had slept literally 0 hours that night and was having severe period cramps.
-Said manager that I was talking about straight up had accused me of lying about my health problems when I literally have documentation of everything except for the condition causing my period cramps. She literally has such a privileged and entitled attitude and has said multiple times that she doesn’t feel bad for people with no/bad health insurance. Mind you I’ve explained to numerous managers including the store manager that the nature of endometriosis (which is what I probably have) is difficult to diagnose and with medicaid and no car I will not be able to get a diagnosis at this moment (i am literally extremely low income and have to pay rent to my mom just for us to survive). They still let said manager go around and openly call me a liar.
-i have accommodations for my other disabilities/mental health issues that I LITERALLY HAVE DIAGNOSED AND ON FILE (mainly PTSD which is what causes me terrible debilitating insomnia especially when unnecessary unjustified things are happening in my life like this..) so why the fuck would I be lying about period cramps?? I literally have my other stuff documented. When I called out a few months ago said manager went on and on to me about how I need a doctor’s note in the most rude and inflammatory way possible. I tried to explain my situation and she was extremely unsympathetic and
was boasting about how fast she got in to get her uterine issues diagnosed. Girl not everyone is as privileged as you!! Mind you this is a grown woman ONLY A YEAR OLDER THAN ME
-Obviously I reported her to HR for the first incident among other things with her disgusting unprofessional attitude towards me. Whenever I point it out she writes passive aggressive notes in the communications logs poking fun at how i feel “targeted” and “offended” all the time. Girl maybe its because you are targeting me and acting dense when I call you out on it, then you run away into the office and hide and refuse to sign off on all the closing tasks I CLEARLY DID if you weren’t having those schizo delusions. Mind you, I was raised around genuinely schizophrenic/bipolar/psychotic whatever you call it people… I promise I’m not being ableist.. SHE blatantly is and no one says anything. I did not call this lady a slur! And i could’ve. I could’ve said way worse (mind you we’re both lgbt white women… but she seems to CLEARLY be the more privileged one.)
-I’m going to try and condense my points about her more succinctly because just typing this out is infuriating me and the fact I still have to work with her up until my last day… but I reported her to HR a second time because she was talking shit to my coworker who I’m actually cool with about how i’m “lying about my health issues” so I have them as a witness. And it completely tracks considering when I called out that one time she said “I could be lying” TO ME ON THE PHONE
-She also misgenders my barista coworkers that go by they/them all the time. She doesn’t care… also her and that aforementioned spineless manager kicked out a black homeless guy for asking people for food and reprimanded me for offering to buy him some!! You people are genuinely racist as fuck. Mind you there is a singular POC bookseller and I feel soo bad for her. She ACTUALLY apologized to me in the past. No one else has. If she’s reading this girl I’m so sorry what the managers here especially our store manager has put you through!!
-our store manager has been reported a billion times to HR for retaliating against our senior barista (I FEEL LIKE HE MIGHT READ THIS HI KING I FW U SM!!) (we had no CTE for like 6 months) and making him do stuff out of his job description then reprimanding him on his performance review for it as well as putting him on a PIP unjustly (she tried to do this to me too but I got a new job and put my two weeks in so she literally hasnt made me sign off on shit. I’ve been threatened with a PIP twice yet i’ve never had to sign off on shit. She’s all bark no bite.)
-She has also been reported a billion times for being a racist and a bum who retaliates against the part timers if you say anything speaking out against how toxic and horrible this workplace is!!
-Her and other managers such as the one that harasses me constantly nitpick anything that goes on in the cafe and they are constantly telling us to do something different every week, not even kidding. The manager that harasses me got mad because one of my coworkers put two different scones on the same plate when our store manager literally told them to do that. Thats literally a standard at different stores
There is literally more I could get into but I’m about to make myself even angrier if I go more into detail😭😭 In short… FUCK this store, ifykyk and idgaf, FUCK you to the manager I’m talking about if she reads this she’ll know who she is and immediately throw a fit and gossip to all the other managers who.. mind you.. are in their late 20’s-30’s yet are too scared to tell this hoe that she’s targeting me yet THEY ALL SEE IT. YALL SUCK TOO!! Not every single one of yall, I fw the bookfloor manager that cussed our store manager clean out and never got fired. She is a queen and is ALWAYS kind and helpful.
I’d actually like to give another fuck you to her. I really hope she reads this and I know she’s going to cry and say its harassment and try to flip the narrative on me and say im #triggered, BITCH FUCK YOUUU none of this is a threat, its just shining light on your true character!! This job has caused me sleepless nights, made me physically sick with stress, all for less than $200 a week some weeks and horrible hours and performance reviews no matter how much my work is praised TO MY FACE by CUSTOMERS AND MANAGERS?? YALL ARE HYPOCRITES!! Yall are miserable. We got a new CTE and she’s actually wonderful but she’s barely been here for a month and is already fed up with the scheduling and higher management.
When I leave I know that place is gonna crash and burn and rightfully so… yall stay petty, conniving, hypocritical and dense and I hope me and all the other good workers leave too!!!
I’m posting this A) cuz i want people from my store to see it B) because I want anyone else possible to see it! After all the fucking mental strain they’ve put me through KNOWING I HAVE DIAGNOSED PTSD ON FILE??? LOLL yall can suckkkk it. Have fun covering the cafe 😂 I wish I was in a financial situation where I could up and walk out. I called out yesterday even when I can’t afford to because thats how PHYSICALLY SICK the job has been making me because NOBODY CARES TO STAND UP FOR SHIT!!
Ive come in to work on 0-3 hours of sleep and been forced to deal with so much there ALONE even for a low volume store its ridiculous and I’ve worked a high volume barista job alone before and it was awful, but something about this store is uniquely sinister.
To reiterate for anyone from my store who may be reading, SOME OF YALL BE RACIST AS FUCK, TRANSPHOBIC AND SPINELESS AS FUCK TO THESE ISSUES!! THERE IS NO REASON TO NOT SAY ANYTHING I AM ALSO WHITE AND SAYING SHIT LOL
and if the shoe doesn’t fit it aint about you.. there’s plenty of decent people and managers at my store but the toxicity of the store manager and the one conniving bitch I’m talking about outweighs it sadly.
Some of you guys should be in MAGA hats but disguise your ignorance with blue hair and piercings. I am a socialist and I never trust any sort of “woke” workplace. There is no such thing lol.
I really hope at least someone reads all of this. In all seriousness I do need the mental health support right now as all of this caused me to have a mental breakdown yesterday. I am so grateful to have been hired at a higher paying barista job that will actually pay me properly and give me proper hours for the almost two years of experience i have.
I know this is super long but this is literally the condensed version. Its so bad.