Throughout my lifetime of multiple job positions, I have had a certain situation in which I was forced to quit because the managers were not treating me equally to other employees. I worked as an In-n-Out associate when I was 17 years old, and throughout my year of working there, I was not given the same treatment as others. The system at In-n-Out works as a level system, and as you achieve a higher level, you are given higher pay. After working there for nearly a year, employees that had only worked half the time as I did were achieving higher levels than me and receiving the training in order to do so. Each time I asked to get training and reach a new level, I was pushed off or told that it will come soon, but it never did. As this continued, I humbly stayed with the company since I was very young and didn’t quite understand how to stand up for myself because it was my first job. The last straw of this whole situation was when I talked to one of our managers about requesting days off to be at my grandparent’s 50th-anniversary cruise. She told me to leave a note about what days I needed off in her office, but when the dates became closer, I reminded her that I was going to be gone those days and she refused to give me them because it was too short of notice. At this point, I knew I was done with this company. They were taking advantage of my skills and attributes and using them for their own needs. As I had put in two weeks after my trip, the head manager came to me asking me to stay and what he can do to make that happen. He offered to train me so that I could achieve a higher level, but I refused because now those who were already ahead of me in half the time, were two levels ahead of me now. At a very young age, I learned a very valuable lesson in the world of the workforce, which was to always know your worth.
