Melanie Martinez herself said that this song was about when she got fired from a bakery she worked at when she was in high school. In the first verse she implies that she did enjoy working there in the beginning and the sweets that were there since it was a bakery. In the second and third verse she then it becomes much more clear the hate overlapped the love she had for it because of her boss. Her boss was the reason that she that she hated it so much. She lost the amount of fun and enthusiasm she had for her job because of her strict, nit-picking a**hole of a boss.