u/PretendPercentage178

officially quit on the spot right before my shift today because I am completely done dealing with this pathetic, brain dead excuse for a company. I already start a way better job this weekend.

If you are thinking about applying to Burlington, absolutely DO NOT WORK HERE. This place is a toxic trap designed to exploit you and stress you out. They will hire you under false pretenses, manipulate you, and then completely starve you out on the schedule, expecting you to somehow survive on a single 4-hour shift a week while they treat you trash. The management has zero respect for your time, your bills, or your sanity, and they actively use scheduling as a passive-aggressive weapon to punish people instead of communicating like adults. Do not waste a single second of your life letting these power-tripping managers walk all over you if they start messing with your hours, screw them over, leave them short-staffed, and walk the hell out.

I’m 19F and I genuinely don’t know what to do anymore. I’m posting because I feel stuck and need advice from people outside of this situation. I’ve been staying at my boyfriend’s house for over a month now. I never planned on being gone this long, but after everything that happened, I haven’t felt comfortable going back home. The thing is, I don’t want to stay away forever. i miss my space and I want to go home.

For context, my parents are divorced and live separately. I live with my dad most of the time, and my mom and stepdad have their own home. A lot of the conflict comes from the fact that they both strongly dislike my boyfriend. Whenever I stay with him or spend time with him, it turns into a huge issue and I just I get insulted, blamed, or belittled by them.

The biggest reason I haven’t gone home is because of a recent situation with my dad. for backround my dad has always been extremely verbally aggressive with me when he’s angry. He yells, cusses, insults me, and makes it his mission to make me feel like shit.

The situation that pushed me to stay away was over a dentist appointment fee. He scheduled the appointment and told me he would cancel it, but when it wasn’t canceled and there was a fee, he blamed me completely. Instead of having a normal conversation, he became extremely aggressive, said hurtful things, called me names, and talked to me in a way I don’t think any parent should talk to their daughter. I told him he was a grown man and shouldn’t speak to me that way or call me names. After that, I stayed at my boyfriend’s because I honestly didn’t feel comfortable going home.

My mom also played a part in why I’ve been hesitant to come back. Before this, there was another time I was staying with my boyfriend and got strep throat. I had a doctor’s note and had to call out of work, but my mom didn’t believe me and thought I was just trying to stay with him. She ended up calling my workplace to check if I was actually sick and basically told them I was lying, which was extremely embarrassing and felt like a huge boundary being crossed. When I confronted her, she told me she didn’t feel bad about it and that I needed to “learn a lesson.”

Now it’s been over a month, and the hardest part is that both of my parents have basically stopped talking to me. My mom hasn’t said anything to me in weeks, and my dad hasn’t reached out either. I even texted my dad on Father’s Day saying I wanted to come home soon but was nervous there would be problems, and he ignored me. It hurts because it feels like I’m expected to fix everything while they can just stop communicating with me. I know I’m an adult, but I’m still their daughter.

The only person who has continued replying to me is my stepdad (my mom’s husband). I’ve thought about talking to him because he’s the only person I kind of feel comfortable going to right now, but I’m scared it’ll turn into criticism about my boyfriend or a lecture about what I did wrong instead of actual advice.

I’m not saying I’m perfect. I know I could have handled things differently too. But I feel hurt, anxious, and stuck. I really want to go home and have my own space back, I just don’t know the best way to do it after being gone this long.

Would you talk to my stepdad first? Would you text my dad and tell him I’m coming home? Would you just show up? Would you wait longer?

I’m not looking for people to just hate on my parents. I genuinely need advice because I want to move forward, but I’m scared of walking back into the same situation.

I would honestly tell anyone thinking about working here to seriously reconsider. this job is not worth the stress, the crap pay, or the constant frustration that comes with it. i’ve been working here for about 3 months, and my hours have been cut down to basically nothing. I’m usually getting around 4 hours to nothing a week, and if I’m lucky maybe 9. it’s extremely frustrating putting in effort for a job that barely even gives you the chance to actually work.

management also does a terrible job communicating and actually caring about their employees. you’re expected to be reliable, flexible, and put in allll ur effort, but they don’t everrr give that same energy back. they’ll cut your hours, barely schedule you, and then act all surprised when employees don’t want to stay. and if you make a mistake or piss off your manager in any form, expect your schedule and treatment to reflect that . 🤦🏻‍♀️ made some normal new employee mistakes and my manager has held a grudge against me every since.

not to mention the customers bruh. genuinely some of the most rude, entitled, and disrespectful people I’ve ever encountered working retail. you’re genuinely expected to get treated like garbage from customers and management then go home with a crap paycheck that’s barely worth the gas it took to get there.

I’ve already had multiple interviews this past week because I’m completely done. the way this place treats employees is ridiculous. the pay is not worth the stress, the hours are nonexistent, and the management makes an already exhausting retail job even worse. If you’re thinking about applying here, seriously reconsider. Don’t waste your time somewhere that clearly doesn’t value the people keeping the place running. The amount of frustration and disrespect you deal with here is nowhere close to worth it.

I was 4 years old when skyrim came out and now i’m about to be 20.. is ES6 ever going to come out? and why has Bethesda pushed this off sooo much with how successful this series is? Oblivion remastered was sick- but I genuinely think we are overdue for ES6 or at least some sort of actual update or confirmation from Bethesda

Hi everyone i’m currently a part time cashier at Burlington. Last week i was scheduled for 3 days (18 ish hours) and i had to call out on all of them because I had the flu and was extremely sick and could barely function. I took the proper steps to call out and let my manager know I was going to the doctors and stuff but then I look at the new schedule posted only to see she did not schedule me at all for next week and half of this week and would literally be off for almost 10 days straight. I am frustrated as hell about it because I truly was sick, what do I do??

my sister is freshly 18 years old and is currently dating a 27 year old man. the part that makes me uncomfortable is that he actually met her when she was still 17. from what I know, they talked consistently for almost three months before officially dating a literal week after she turned 18. i don’t know exactly what their conversations were like before then, but considering how quickly they got together afterward, I assume there was definitely already some level of romantic or flirtatious interest. they’ve only officially been together for about 4 months, but he’s already talking about marriage and a serious future together very intensely and very quickly. even outside of legality, the age gap itself feels strange to me. she’s basically a fresh high school graduate just entering adulthood, while he’s almost 30 and at a completely different stage of life. i’m not automatically accusing him of being abusive or dangerous, but I really can’t stop questioning his intentions and whether this dynamic is healthy or safe at all.

i know she’s legally an adult now, so I understand there’s technically nothing illegal about it, but morally it still feels really off to me that a 27 year old was building a connection with a 17 year old and then immediately started dating her once she turned 18.

i’m trying not to come across as controlling because I know she can make her own choices, but I genuinely care about her safety and wellbeing. would you consider my concerns reasonable, or am I overthinking this situation?