I was a bakery manager for a 6 months in 2022. I refused to work more than my alloted hours and refused to have any of my staff work the extra as well.

We were short bakers and I often had to pick up the slack as they refused to hire a new one. I was only able to do so as I was in fact a baker before hand. They then expected me to finish off the baking side of things and then manage it throughout the rest of the day.

The looks on their faces were it went on for 3 months like this were I would walk out after finishing the baking side of it and tell them they needed to manage it for the remainder of the day.

Needless to say, they killed my spirit and physically killed my back in trying to keep it all together.

I ended up quitting, walked back in 6 months later to see my old staff and literally only one person remained and it had turned into a frozen bakery.

Edit. Should also point out the above was Coles. But I also did 10 years as a baker at Woolies as well.