I resigned with two weeks notice via email because my boss had just returned from vacation and I am not there until Saturday. I have not heard anything at all and am wondering if I should even go in this weekend. I have had a lot of problems there with the staff and feeling mistreated and my boss knows and I have mentioned leaving before. I hate having work issues.
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A grocery opened a local store here and I went through hell with it. Before it opened we went to a training center and we had to learn codes to use at the grocery and did like relays and stuff. I would be looking at my schedule and the trainers would accuse me of cheating and looking at PLUs. One trainer came in and made gay jokes and talked about how he used to live where there was HIV all over the place and how gross it was. I felt pushed around in ways where associates grilled me about my qualifications and why I deserve to be there. These people were filthy nasty. I wrote the store manager that I wanted to leave and she tried to convince me otherwise and said that there were plenty of gay people in the company. There are only two left in my store. A couple. So I get to my store and managers are degrading to me. Before the store opened we were expected to be there and do work to get paid but sometimes there were no trucks coming in and so to stay I would start cleaning and mop bathrooms and breakrooms and people acted condescending, like I would ask to help on the floor again when pallets were delivered and managers would try to direct me off the floor or say go clean. If I made a mistake putting something into backstock, managers would yell. When other people stood around or took all these breaks and were doing 40 hours and overtime plus, managers just let them slide. It is still going on with the place open. My mom started having health problems so I asked to have hours cut back but I think some managers thought I had punished or something and I would go in and everyone is assigned to a section and I don't have one. I would scan food for write offs and a manager for example would come up and say scan this nonfood item and when I ask how to do that, since the MDE scanner had to have a code entered, they were like this is not food, see, non food? They would come on the floor and say well you have a responsibility to do scan items before they go to the back and I had never been told and my three coworkers from my section are in the back doing that very thing an hour later and no one says anything. People figured out that I had complained about being harassed and last Saturday, the district manager and store manager were not in the store for the first time (vacation and time off) and one manager yelled at me because I asked if I could go back to produce and she kept scanning some of her own write offs. She yelled out that she was done with the MDE and I had already walked away and she started screaming to come get it. Someone in my department was standing next to the manager so I said just to bring it. When I got on the floor, the manager came back again and said I was talking to you. I said I didn't hear a word about coming to get this scanner besides being screamed at. I was like I am not going to fight on the floor. I said I was done, and she starts yelling again "Done with what?" Then she gets the assistant manager, another woman and they call me in the back office and the manager walks in with an attitude like what is wrong with you today. They were like you are blowing things out of proportion. I said I was tired of the tension you can slice through and that this had been going on forever and I would not discuss anything without the district or store manager there. The assistant manager then starts yelling that it is her store without them there and she is just as capable and I asked what they were asking of me and they refused to say and weren't writing me up either so I got up and left to go back to the floor and the original manager is yelling are you walking off your job. They just wanted to escalate and punish me because the store manager was not there. I finished my shift and left. I said that it was a favor that I still showed up at all. I wrote the store manager Monday and said that I was putting in notice. Usually she responds but I have heard nothing. I am scheduled two more days and plan to call out for them because I do not even feel safe. I was extremely anxious and this has been a bad experience for me. I do have to work.
That's terrible, I'm sorry to hear that.
A lot of workplaces are abusive, and I would say it's never (or almost never) worth it to put up with it. I think you made the right decision to leave.
Is there a Whole Foods Market near you? They, and some independent markets seem to be pretty gay-friendly. I think they also pay more than most places.
A lot of workplaces are abusive, and I would say it's never (or almost never) worth it to put up with it. I think you made the right decision to leave.
Is there a Whole Foods Market near you? They, and some independent markets seem to be pretty gay-friendly. I think they also pay more than most places.
I feel like I have not gotten a response because they are taking it personally/ are angry or else are afraid. Either way I don't know how to go in this Saturday. This job was at Lidl. I thought it was open and the store owner is gay presumably but I feel like she didn't defend me or was testing me in some way and I don't understand it. I do not know what I did but I should have just left sooner.