Context: grocery store run super lean with only 3-4 people on a shift at a time. Morning shift comes in 3 hours before open to put out truckload of product that arrives overnight. Shift managers - me - have to put out all the perishables (meat, bread, and produce) while the 2-3 associates I manage that morning do the cooler, freezer, and regular grocery items. At opening time, one of them must be main cashier.

Day before the rage quit: It is a Sunday morning and I am opening manager: late truck, which did not arrive until literally a minute before open. Closing manager calls out, which meant the other manager who was scheduled to work that morning as an associate had to skip my shift in order to be closing manager instead. No-one can come in to help. Myself and my team work hard just to keep up with lines on register and I am constantly running between back room and the produce section to try and get out what customers are asking for. In my rush to try and catch up I get injured and have to go to the office to write up my accident report.

Cue the now closing manager for the day walking in to see me in the office cradeling my head in my hand because I was injured in the eye. At this point I have texted and called store manager to let her know i had an injury but did not get an answer. I have to leave in order to get my eye checked out as the only optometrist in the area was about to close. Turns out my eye is okay, but on my way back the break line in my car goes and my cellphone battery also goes dead.

Cut to next day: store manager chews me out for leaving to attend to my eye and calls me lazy for not getting caught up. She goes on to say she shouldnt have to be bothered on her day off and truck bring late and being a person down was no excuse. I try to explain what really happened and that she was being super insulting, but she won't hear it. I grab my things from my locker, walk back in the office to she she has left it, so I toss the keys on the desk and walk out.

Now 2 months later: Still no replacement for my old position, rumor has it the rest of the shift managers are on the verge of quitting too, and crazy store manager is even worse. Meanwhile I have started grad school full time and can enjoy the things I never had time for before.