As the title suggests I worked a high end retail job for 9 years and suffered physical and mental abuse that's left me unable to work after 5 years.
The owner of the store would take pleasure in tormenting employees, I suffered through things being thrown at me, being smacked upside the head daily ( and him laughing thinking it was a joke) centered out infront of other co workers and ridiculed, and being told to stop f*ing crying when any of the above happened.
I never put in a formal complaint to the police or government agency from fear. Living in this hell had me in fight or flight mode. Once I had an opportunity to escape to a better job I fell apart quickly and have been off ever since.
The flashbacks, nightmares and rumination daily are crippling. Im now heavily medicated and live my life in a daze of antidepressants and anti psychotics. Finding this community is giving me strength though, and I'm thankful for that.