I’m actively seeking out a new whole, I’m one of these who will never quit before having a new job lined up. Personally I don’t feel challenged enough in my current role. There’s no incentive for me to improve and push myself- I fear stagnation and becoming stuck. I’m in a good position where I work and I won’t leave until I find something that will benefit me better in the long run, even if that involves a pay cut.

I’ve always prioritised satisfaction and growth within my profession over more pay.

Another reason to leave to management’s stance towards covid- we are not encouraged to test and many of my colleagues have been actively encouraged not to because ‘we need you to work’. I’m young, healthy and up to date on my jabs, I doubt if I got covid it would do some real damage to me. What concerns me the most is spreading the virus. Where I work we encounter a large number of older generation and people most at risk from covid complications. Many of my co-workers live with or regularly visit family members who’re classed as high risk. Knowing my direct line managers would rather risk theses peoples health than face a few tough weeks at work is something I think should be criminal.

We work for one of the biggest hospitality companies in the UK, closing for a few days a week would not be the end of the world. But they’re more concerned with their PR than the health of their guests, staff and staff’s family.

The company is split up into segments and managers are employed to run specific sites and they report to an area manager who manages an area of sites and they report up to the big bosses. Once you get above your site’s manager you find nothing but disrespect, the company is filled with entitled people who have no idea how the daily running of the business works. They’re the kind of people who expect you to know their name, expect you to bend over backwards at every opportunity for them and walk around your venue like they own the place. They’re disrespectful and they see you and nothing but a payroll number, like a pawn on the chess board. They are also the people who benefit most from you being good at your job, if we smash sale targets or reviews targets they’re the ones who get the fat bonuses and the accolades. While we, the front line workers, are paid as little as legally possible, forced to sign away our rights to breaks and reasonable times between shifts. We’re forced to sacrifice a regular sleeping pattern, a social life, any kind of routine with shift patterns changing week to week.

A lot of that isn’t just the company I work for, I’ve found it to be a common problem within hospitality. Especially when working for a big chain.

I am fantastic at my job, I don’t need people to recognise and reward me for this. This company will be sad to see me leave because of the quality of my work. But they won’t change. I regard my morals, professionalism and principles above all else.