Wanted to wait till after Christmas, but I might just quit now.

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Well, I haven't started my new job yet, that starts on Monday, yay!! But things at my old job are just getting worse and worse. First, was my weekend. They've decided to cut down on their labor, so they have fewer people working now. On Saturdays they have 2 people on until 8, then 1 leaves leaving the other to close by themselves. On Sunday, they only have a second person on until 5:30, then the closer is alone. So on Saturday we got slammed. We had a line to the door for 3 hours straight. The girl who was supposed to leave at 8 thankfully stayed until 9:30 allowing me (the closer) to get out on time. She had called our manager during our rush and told her we needed help. The manager told us to call around.. well how are we supposed to call around when we have a line to the door? We called one girl but she couldn't make it in, so we ended up having to deal with it ourselves. Sunday was even worse. First, the girl they put on until 5:30 did absolutely nothing. I walked in at 4pm and there were dirty dishes everywhere, nothing had been stocked, there was bread still to be made. The first thing she does when I show up is go outside to smoke. So I run around crazy trying to get all this done, meanwhile she's eating! She ate a cup of soup, and 2 cups of tomatoes. I ended up yelling at her because I only had 1 bin of tomatoes to get through my night, and if she kept eating them I would have had to make more. She didn't seem to care. So at 5pm I got a little fed up with her not doing anything, and told her she could go home early. She said she had to wait for her ride anyway, so she spent the next half hour staring out the front door waiting for her ride. I asked her if she had punched out yet and she said no. She was getting paid to just stare out the front door while I ran my butt off trying to get myself caught up for the night. I got slammed again that night. 3 hours straight of a line to the door, again, and I was by myself. I ended up staying an extra hour after close trying to get myself caught up. All I could think about all weekend long was how this just wasn't worth it. I'm not getting paid enough to put up with this sort of headache. I make just barely over minimum wage, but I swear I've never had such a physical and demanding job. Not only do I need to be capable of running around like a crazy person trying to get all of our tasks done, I also have to be as nice and polite as possible to every customer that walks through that door, even the ones who are complete jerks. And to put all this on one person's shoulders because they're too cheap to put enough people on to cover a shift. Sunday night after my shift was over I left a note for the manager saying I won't work Sundays anymore. Ever since I told her I would do Sundays, I've closed every single week by myself. I haven't had a Sunday off since before school started. Well, Sunday used to be our family day, but since I have to be to work at 4, we can't do anything. We haven't gone apple picking yet, or to a pumpkin patch, or anything. So I need my Sundays back. To make up for losing my Sundays, I told the manager I could close on Wednesdays, and I'm still available Saturdays, but I've requested the next 2 Saturdays off for Halloween activities. So yesterday I was at work, and the district manager came in to do the schedule for next week. I saw that she put me on for next Saturday even though I requested it off. I spoke up and told her I couldn't work that day, so she crossed it off.. but that left me with no shifts at all next week because they don't have me on for Wednesday. Not to mention how bad they messed up this week's schedule. My availability is open until 3pm on weekdays. So yesterday and today I was scheduled normal hours, but for Thursday I'm scheduled 3-7 and on Friday 11:30 till 5. I told them I can't work these shifts, my son has soccer games and I need to be home to get my younger kids off the bus. They told me they'd straighten it out, which they did, they gave those shifts to someone else.. but that left me with just 2 shifts this week because our week starts today. I have today's shift, and my Sunday closing shift.. which should be my last Sunday. They haven't replaced those lost hours at all. Since my new job hasn't started yet, I've been relying on getting a lot of hours at Subway to pay for daycare for my little one.. so I don't know how I'm going to pay that bill next week with only 2 shifts this week. So I'm really frustrated right now. Although I'm starting a new job, I really wanted to keep working at Subway a few days a week, 1. for extra money especially with Christmas coming up, and 2. just in case things didn't work out at BoA and I need something to fall back on. But with everything they're putting me through right now, I can't help but wonder, what's the point? Maybe I should just put in my 2 week notice right now and be done with it. BoA will pay more than enough to cover my daycare costs and leave me a little extra cash.. it's just going to be tough the next couple of weeks until I get my first BoA paycheck. But obviously Subway will be no help over the next couple of weeks since they don't want to give me any hours. (BTW- my manager told me she received a customer compliment about me. A customer that had come in on Sunday night wrote to the manager to tell her what a great job I had done dealing with the huge crowd all by myself. So obviously I'm a good worker and the customers like me. Don't you think they'd bend over backwards to try to give me as many hours as they can with what I'm available?). What do you think I should do? Deal with it for as long as I can, to make sure I have a couple extra bucks for Christmas and a job to fall back on if the new one doesn't work out? Or should I not stress myself out by trying to deal with it and just quit now? Keep in mind, BoA is only 20 hours a week, but pays much better, and I still have school to worry about as well.