My son has been doing his WFH job with a company that rhymes with BIGMA. It's a brutal, thankless job that solely exists as an echo chamber for angry Boomers who can't do ANYTHING on their own. For my son though, it doesn't upset him in the least, so he is GREAT at his job.
He has been harrassed by his male boss on a daily basis. Texts, messages, brutally cruel coachings. Constant, CONSTANT threats of, “I could fire you if I wanted to. I could fire you RIGHT NOW, and you wouldn't get unemployment, you would get NOTHING.” My son is incredibly intelligent, and very patient. He is autistic as well and he cannot understand why this man is telling him that he is “call dodging” and writing him up, and suspending him. He talks to him like an angry father. It's long, but I am going to post the last text message he was sent by this man. This was at 3am in response to my son being in the hospital with me per a medical emergency (I have Lupus and it can be scary at times)
Here is the text he received last night in response to asking to take PTO for the next day (for reference, my son works an evening shift, and he apparently should have predicted that I would start coughing blood during their coaching earlier that same evening) Here it is:
“All you needed to do was let me know. Because it wasn't in enough time they will mark you as Absent but thats better than NCNS. I am really truly sorry about what you are going through with you mom. I think I would lose my mind if I were in your shoes. But just because I feel for you doesn't mean I don't have to hold you to the same standards as every other agent. I honestly don't feel like you are going to last much longer. I have given you chance after chance and you disappoint me every time. Unless you completely turn your act around it won't be long before you and I jave our final conversation ever.”
Y'all what is going ON? My son is NO TROUBLE. Not at ALL. He is the Rule Follower/ Hall Monitor Angel Son while his twin sister is my Glorious and Beautiful Hellion. I listen to him all day on his calls and he is perfect. He wouldn't dodge a call or break procedure. It distresses hims OCD. Those crazy old people are so mean and he never skips a beat. He loves helping people, even if they are evil (his words, not mine, still hilarious) What can he do? He's obviously looking for another job. This has been about 8 weeks of this behavior now.
He has pages of similar texts. Screenshots from his work messages. Emails and stuff all in this similar vein from this boss. I never knew how to or had a choice in dealing with people like this when I was young. He knows he'll be toast at this job of course, and he has been applying to others for 6 weeks or so. It's been slow going. He wants to make sure he at least gets to keep his unemployment when he DOES get fired. It takes all of our incomes to keep us afloat. Please forgive the length. Context is important. Do y'all have any advice?