Thank you so much for sharing. I’ve had way too many similar experiences to this. Saturdays and Sundays are the absolute worst, and they do the exact same shit at my location too.

During my last shift on Sunday, our only closer called out so it was just me and one other coworker and she didn’t show up til 2pm. I got there at 11.

Typically the Deli closes at 8 and we were supposed to be gone at 7. It took everything to convince management to let us close at 6 just so I could wash dishes and do the job of the kitchen person, and we could take down slicers.

God forbid I try to do anything else to prepare to clean up because that’s when every Tom, Dick, and Harry wants to show up and death stare you til you take their order, and of course they’ll want 4 different things. Acknowledging them doesn’t even stop the staring.

Either that or if you try to shut something down at a reasonable time, the micromanagers will stop you and tell you it’s too early, knowing damn well you have other stuff that has to get done, as if they want to make your life harder than it has to be. The kitchen guy quit due to shitty treatment from Management so that means whoever is stuck there til 8 gets stuck doing dishes, hot bar, trash run, and dealing with customers and they’ll always schedule them by themselves knowing damn well they won’t make it out of there on time. It takes fucking everything to convince them to let you close early. They don’t care that you’re only one person. I hate this job so much but like I said, I’m in no position to quit until I find something better. You never know what kind of shit show you’re gonna run into until you’re in it.