Work troubles

I work at Chick-fil-A, and I had to close twice this week at work as the closing manager because one of the other closing managers was on vacation. I closed on Tuesday night, which is my regular night of closing, and I had to send two people home because they just wouldn't listen. I had warned one of them, and gotten on to them for a few things, and they didn't get it! So I didn't want them there and sent them home. So that was Tuesday night, and I also had to close Thursday night, which is spirit night for a certain school, and we were pretty busy. Thursday night was special because we had to do some extra cleaning due to the fact that corporate was coming the next morning to look at our store. The store needed to be spotless, basically, and most of us stayed there until almost 1:00 a.m. when we usually get out at about 11 p.m. Well, we worked our little tails off, and yes forgot to cut and squeeze lemons, but we still did a lot considering how many people we had closing; obviously, the manager doing the schedule needs to relearn how to make schedules.

I felt a little guilty for not doing lemons and getting out at 1 in the morning, but my crew and I worked hard. Naturally, though, we, excuse me, I got criticized for leaving so late, and not praised for doing extra cleaning, which needed to be done for a while. As soon as I walked in to get my check today, all I heard was we got out too late, we shouldn't have payed attention to so much detail, and my boss asked who made the list of extra "chores" for us to do, and one of the other managers just said that I wanted the list made, so of course it was all my fault, and I just kept my mouth shut and left. So I realized I just don't get paid enough to deal with all this mess! Things such as babysitting a bunch of kids, it feels like, trying to get the store cleaned, and dealing with all the money and of course the rude customers who have nothing to do but complain. People just don't appreciate things anymore! And I think to myself now, I am so looking forward to finishing college and getting a "real" job, and how much my job now is just a little fraction of my life because there are more important things in life than this cruddy job, and that I won't have to stay there forever. Thank God!