#FoodService #WorkEthics #ManagementIssues
Hey everyone! 🍔🍟 Just quit my food service job and feeling a mix of relief and guilt. Wondering if I made the right call by walking out. 🤔
Here’s the deal:
– Gave my resignation letter to my manager but felt bad leaving early
– Was planning to finish my last week and a half
– Constantly getting yelled at by a manager who’s 26 and seems to take her anger out on me
So, here’s the big question: Is it wrong for me to walk out of a food service job?
Personally, I think no one should have to endure mistreatment at work. Here’s a possible solution:
– Talk to HR or a higher-up about the situation before making a final decision
– Consider finding a new job where you’re appreciated and respected
What do you guys think? Share your thoughts and advice below! Let’s help each other out. 💬✨
Nope. Not wrong. Don’t be a punching bag for poor management.
People deserve respect, in any job they do. You did the right thing.
Dont feel guilty! You did the right thing. At your age, jobs should be fun.
Bottom line, if you can’t enjoy it, to some extent, it’s not worth doing. Shitty management is, in my opinion, the number one reason for people leaving jobs.
You gave doing the right thing a shot and still got mistreated. If you can, let that head manager know that the other manager is a huge issue.
Either way you’re free now. Go find something with a crew you can enjoy working with! Good luck OP!
This will get downvoted, but I’m generally against walking out mid shift unless there’s some kind of immediate threat. I’ve been fucked over too many times by people who thought they were sticking it to management but really just fucked over the regular people. One guy even invited me for a beer after I finished my shift, ya know after I dud all his work too.
Don’t feel guilty. I would’ve screamed at her at how shitty she was and made it so customers could hear me talking about her being abusive 👀 so you’re better than me haha.
No, and please don’t feel bad or guilty because of crappy management. I just left my new restaurant job for the same reason. I was not trained at all and yelled at by my GM for not knowing how to prep their ingredients. Managers sat in the office and did nothing to help while me and my coworkers struggled.
Jobs like that aren’t even worth a resignation letter, imo.
OP you didn’t just get up and leave you left because of management harassing you, that is a perfectly valid reason to leave. Managers like that don’t deserve a full two weeks, they deserve to be ghosted and deserve to be left high and dry. Good luck at your next job and hopefully they treat you better.
Food service jobs have constant turnover. My first job was at Taco Bell. I left after 2 months to take an office job.
I visited a year later. All my old coworkers were gone except for the manager and assistant manager. A 100% non-management staff turnover in a year is normal for fast food. The managers won’t blink if an employee quits after a few months.
Staff quitting in the middle of shifts. It’s not out of the norm.
You owe your employer nothing. This is a business arrangement only. If they can hurt you to increase their profits, they will. Treat them with the same consideration
I wouldn’t feel guilty at all. If anything you showed them up by drawing a boundary for yourself.
Nobody should ever yell at an employee. Period.
I’d call the owner and let them know you left before your 2 weeks because you weren’t going to put up with being yelled at anymore
The guilt you feel is the early stages of them indoctrinating you into be Leigh g you can never leave them.
Sounds like you got out just in time.
No
Nope. There are jobs and there are careers. Nobody in a professional field is going to care about your job in food service.
Don’t feel bad.
You owe them nothing and they treated you like nothing…so it evened out. I don’t care how old you are…that treatment is unacceptable. Good for you for not taking it. She’s an idiot if after giving notice, she thought you would stay and take that. Odds are she is now going to be in trouble for talking to you like that. Onward and upward!
Ew. You are not wrong at all. That lady must be miserable. It is not normal to be treated poorly. Glad you left!
Absolutely not. You were being abused. Report it to HR. You are in the right. Good for you for sticking up for yourself. How dare a 26 yo yell at a 17 yo. What a loser. Hope she gets what she deserves.
Hey boss, I’ve started working at Panera Bread 2 years ago at the age of 16, two managers stuck in the back of my head and almost made me quit because of how intense and strict they were. I tell you, before they came, I absolutely loved my co workers, they were funny, great & hard working. Regardless of that, managers like yours are those who do not give those opportunity of fun co-workers.
Now I’m 18 having 3 years of food services and I say this, you have the balls to quit unlike me who felt bad and thinking I will be praised for staying for the company and then realize I wasn’t being praised 2 years later. The only reward I recieve was a Thank You for being great paper award…. first 6 months of working…
Do what makes you happy and since you’re young, don’t work like I did where I work everyday after school, take breaks work like 10 hours. Week etc. Enjoy being a kid bc you got 1 year left.
Please do not feel guity. It sounds like a horrible environment. You are NO obligation to give notice to ANY job ever. If your employer wanted to fire you, do you think he’d give you two weeks notice? No. Nor would they feel guilty about firing you.
So don’t feel bad. Feel good because you did the right thing.
Nah it doesn’t get better unless you’re kissing ass, sleeping with somebody or you just leave. They can always find another punching bag to sling their overpriced meals. Find something to do besides this.
not in the slightest!! trust me, you may feel guilty now but a few weeks/months down the line you’ll have zero regrets. life’s too short to put up with such horrid treatment 🩷
Naw, did the same thing when I was 19. They knew I hated being assigned a certain role, and then kept assigning it to me. Walked in and heard it again and it was the last straw. Tore up my time card and threw it in the trash and left.
This is the best time in your life to go against the grain, fuck shit up. Because later in life when people depend on you, you can’t do this.
Little too late to ask AFTER you’ve already walked out isn’t it?
What are they going to do… fire you?
But seriously though, you didn’t do anything wrong. If anything you should feel proud of yourself for knowing your worth and not allowing yourself to be disrespected. 🙂
You’re good, I worked 20 years at my last job before retirement in ’22. The owner would have meetings every so often and tell us we were like family. Got a new supervisor who kissed his way up and had my manager in my area let go. The new guy would tell us if we didn’t want to work, we could always be replaced. So much for family.
What you should do is reach out to human resources and seek their assistance. This sounds like your supervisor lacks proper training. You should never be denied breaks or meal periods. Call HR tomorrow morning and they will give you your job back and deal with the woman giving you grief
Nah don’t feel guilty, that job don’t care about you
Nope. Good to walk out. Stay away from the food industry. It is the worst.
Do you think they’d feel guilty if they fired you? Of course not. Five minutes from now, they won’t even remember you. So don’t let guilt live rent free in your head. Let it go and find a better job someplace else.
Nope. Never, ever let a manager (or anyone else) treat you like that. Walking out with zero notice, especially at a really busy time, is the absolute best way to deal with a shitty manager.
I once was an experiment at a fast food place. The overall store location manager decided to try and see if he could drop the closing crew from 4 to 3 people including one manager. He stopped by in the evening to see how it was working out. At the time the movie theater across the parking lot was letting out and we got very busy. The manager stepped up to help put burgers on the grill while I made up the sandwiches. It was a Burger King. The head manager yells at the other manager for helping me keep up saying “he could get a monkey to do that “. I turned to him and said he should do that. I took off my brown polyester Burger King shirt and threw it at him and left. You did good.