Had to have a intervention because of this place
I know that the flair says workplace but its not and I have to put this out there in the hopes someone else sees it and can feel some level of solidarity. A few days ago I had an intervention with some close friends and family about my depression and how michaels has been the main factor in my downward spiral. For the past couple of years now mental health has been on the decline due to work and for the longest time I kept burying my emotions because if I crashed out or snapped at one of the managers, DM, or a customer id be fired and or in jail. Ill come right out and say something we all know This company sucks to work for and the way they treat us is abusive. This isn't some revelation the majority of us here hate it, but the only reason we come back is because we have bills to pay. Through my time working for this company ,11 years, I went from a happy, friend, outgoing individual to one that has been bitter, tired, and shut in. This place has no work life balance and I know some of you know the pain of closing the stor only then to have hardly enough time to come home eat, shower and sleep before needing to be back at the store to be verbally abused by customers, be told you dont contribute enough for a reasonable wage, and various other bullshit that if we complain about, our higher ups either do everything to gas light you into thinking the problem is your own fault, or they give runaround answers that never lead to a solution in hopes you become so broken you just stop asking. Something my friends pointed out how I dont smile anymore and that the light and pride i had in working is dead. They said they could see the shif in my demeanor as I became more withdrawn as if the only thing I had to do in my life is throw my life away for this company that doesn't bother to give a single fuck about me in return. No thank foe covering a 12 hour shift, no praise for doing the job of 4 people, and certainly no respect for being cussed smooth out by customer then being told I was wrong for doing the exact thing I was trained to do. All that to say please everyone dont let this job break you, I was spiraling and heading to a dark place i knew I wouldn't have come back from and I dont want to see or hear about it happening to anyone else. We're better than this place.