'Quitting and not regretting it': Coffee shop manager takes employee off schedule after claiming they're not “excited to work”, employee resigns immediately

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Jul 25, 2026 12:00 PM EDT

What's the point of having a job if the boss doesn't actually let you work?

We can say we don't want to work as much as we want, but the reality is that we all need the money, and having a job that gives you nothing to do eventually becomes really boring. Yes, we need a job because we need to earn enough money to afford existing; there is no way around it. But even if you find a job that pays well, if you don't actually do anything all day, you will find yourself looking for tasks to do just to pass the time.

The barista who shared their work problems below had neither, which basically means they didn't really have a job to begin with. It makes sense that the only solution they had was resigning altogether.

It started when they took a job in a local coffee shop 7 months ago, and for the first 6 months, everything went well. They had shifts, they did the job, and they earned money. A solid job. Then, a new manager rolled in who, for some reason, started picking favorites among the staff. This led him to stop scheduling this one employee altogether, which meant that they were forced to go through a whole week without working. The only way they could go around the manager's decision was if they picked up someone else's shift, but that is no way to hold a job or earn a livable wage.

The employee then discovered that the manager only schedules people he deems "excited to work", which is a really horrible excuse to use when you're stopping people from making a living. And since the employee is currently making no money at all in this job, they realized it makes no sense to keep it. 

There is much more to this story even after they decided to quit, so make sure you read it all.

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    Barista working in a coffee shop.
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    Barista working in a coffee shop.

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    Taken off the schedule because I'm not "excited to work"

    Been working at a local coffee shop the past almost 7 months and a new assistant manager started maybe a month or month and a half ago. I could
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    immediately tell he was a brown noser and it really put me off, like there was one time the shop needed extra hands for a big event and he had said
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    something like "if you help out you'll be skinny and pretty all year." And recently he's stopped scheduling me so this past week I had to pick up a few shifts
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    from people who didn't want them because otherwise I had none and I wasn't on the schedule for the next two weeks.
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    Not to mention if I want to pick up shifts I have to wait for manager approval, and now that the new guy is officially the shop's GM I didn't see him
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    approving me...especially now that I know he didn't have me on the schedule because he bases hours on people who are "excited to work" and I just have
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    to try and laugh it off because otherwise I'll get ped off all over again. How the h I are you going to fk with someone's actual literal living because they
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    aren't drinking the company Kool-aid?? I wasn't a perfect. employee or whatever but I worked hard enough to sprain my thumb and still felt bad.
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    about asking for a single day off to rest it. Quitting and not regretting it, good riddance.
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    Two baristas making coffee in a shop.
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    Two baristas making coffee in a shop.

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    lefthandb1ack Constructive dismissal will get you unemployment in most places
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    gingerbreadboi OP Oh I intend to try for it. Unfortunate I didn't get the reasoning in writing because he literally avoided my messages any time I asked about it lol
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    ..xxWARXMACHINE T. is the "skinny and pretty" comment all about? | feel like him not scheduling you isn't about being excited to work. Sounds like a creep with an ulterior motive.
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    gingerbreadboi OP Now that you mention it, the promotions do seem to be going to the younger (<25) ladies rather than the baristas who have been working there for as long as I have. Wonder if that has anything to do with it
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    thenord321 Make sure to make some complaints to upper management about his "leadership style" and "targetted
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    harassment" then leading to hour cuts as punishment without documented cause. That could land them in potential legal
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    trouble, then quit and tell them you're contacting a lawyer, they better get the GM in line.
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    Even if you don't follow through, it will cause him and his brown nose image to be tarnished and possibly demote or retrained.
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    gingerbreadboi OP Will do, thanks! Anything to keep the class traitors out of management
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