How did you get your job as a restaurant manager?

How can you get through days at a job you hate without it making you miserable?

• I am stuck at a waitressing job right now. I have two college degrees, but my resume is a mess after being out of work for six months following being hit by a car and unable to walk and shortly after getting better from that, I had an illness that kept me of out of work for another six months(I'm better now, yay!). I have waitressed on and off between jobs since I was seventeen. I'm in my early thirties now. I really hate the place I'm working for, but the money is decent and the hours are better than a lot of places. However, my manager is awful to me and it really gets to me. Sometimes, I start to get physically sick from the stress at my job. He favors my coworkers who speak the languages that he does or come from the same country as him, etc. I work hard, but my boss is constantly humiliating me in front of other workers. I make very few mistakes, but when I do make one, he talks about it loudly in front of my coworkers and punishes me by taking tables out of my section, cutting my days on the schedule, etc. He tells the other waitresses not to talk to me. New hires are given better sections than me even though I make fewer mistakes and can handle my job. He gave everyone a locker and a lock to keep their things in and when he didn't give me one, I asked if I cold have one and he told me he didn't think it was necessary, so I have to leave my purse out in the basement when I'm working. I have been trying to find a career job, but haven't had luck lately and I have been keeping my eyes open for a new restaurant job that makes it worth leaving this one in the meantime, but haven't found anything that makes it worth leaving where I am yet. How can I not let this treatment get to me? I've confronted him and it only makes the treatment worse. Now I just have to find a way to not let it upset me. Can anyone give me some ideas as to techniques I can use or things I can tell myself so I can kind of let it roll off my back?

• Answer:

  Not worth it. Go and find a new JOB! Just getting out of there should make you feel MUCH better. You have to sacrifice a little. So go and get the other job and still look for the dream job. The stress and all the other crap will make you more sick! More $$$ won't make you happier when you work in a bad environment. Who know the other lower paying job may get you a career job by meeting new customers! Good Luck!