I work for my local government, I hate my job because I am doing labor that requires a lot of skill and training (plumbing, carpentry, electrical, and HVAC) and making less than one of my buddies that works at McDonald's, no hate to him or anyone that works there cause the flack they get for wage is undeserved.
So….first thing I get when I walk in is bitched at by a coworker. He threw a hissy fit right when I came in cause of yesterday when I stayed home for mental health reasons another coworker checked up on me. I didn't want to worry him so I just said it is that I'm staying home for my mental issues, I tend to minimalize my issues when talking to anyone other than my fiancée or my therapist cause I'm tired of explaining shit to people. He decided bitch me out cause “I'm 65 and have dealt with little shits like you for fourty years, I don't sleep, I barely eat, your 26, pick up your balls and deal with it.” (Directly what he damn near shouted in my face)
This dickhead used to be a therapist, sure gives me warm fuzzy feelings about the people he treated before he retired from that. I am also the only transgender woman in the department and he regularly tells me to “man up” or to “put my big boy pants on and suck it up”. I have worked at this place for two years and been sexually assaulted and harassed at work for my gender identity, mocked incessantly for my mental health issues, and berated for using my PTO and FMLA to make sure I don't hurt myself or my loved ones. Every time I tried HR, it would go no where and usually make things worse.
If I didn't need to penny pinch and scrounge to survive I would have quit this crap last year when I was assaulted.