I have been severely neglecting this blog - and I’m sorry for those of you who were reading it regularly. I would sit down to come up with something but honestly - I am just entirely burnt out and I have a few submissions to post and I’ll continue to post those - but my job right now is… pretty close to soul-sucking. It’s to the point where I wake up on days I have to work and have to talk myself out of calling up my boss and just saying I’m done, and I’m not coming in.

As I’ve said before, I work for a locally owned place and the staff kind of built it from the ground up - we made the policies ect, ect. Unfortunately, there is no sort of management system. At all. This job has turned into a joke for so many people who work here, and for those of use who care - we’re doing ten times the work. This has been brought up to the owner numerous times, but he isn’t “inclined” to set up any sort of discipline system and people take advantage of that.

It’s unfortunate, because I truly care about the business - I want it to go well. But, people here take this as a job that they don’t have to do anything. because if theres a mess - and it’s not cleaned up, it doesn’t matter. Nothing happens. So, me, and one other employee here are constantly cleaning up after everyone, dreading the messes that are going to be made and getting paid the same as everyone else. And, the owner thinks it’s funny.

Also - if I’m honest about everything the business isn’t doing well. At all. Our biggest day has been 450.00, and that isn’t… something to be proud of. We don’t have a blender, we have limited syrup flavors, and we’re getting our small bit of business from college students - and it’s almost summer. Right now, it’s Spring Break and we’re doing horrible. Again - the owner doesn’t seem to care.

So, I’m entirely burnt out and desperately applying to other places because I want to be at least okay with going to work, instead of getting here in the morning and wanting to scream. It isn’t really a good feeling.

But - on that note, I’m going ——

I would just like to say I was interrupted while typing by a customer hitting on me and asking for my number. Wow.

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Anyway - I’m going to start queueing up submissions again and please keep submitting to keep me sane.

  1. baristababble posted this