Set in UK
Tesco = supermarket chain
Assistant Manager works secondary to the general manager, AM spends most time in the “trenches” GM remains in office mostly all the time. (I had this job may 2020 – August 2020, COVID first hit the news majorly)
Idk if this has happened to anywhere else but the AM unironicaly ran the store like a branch of the army: referred to himself as the “commanding officer” and “first officer” multiple times, demanded we referred to him as “sir” or “captain” (not a single person ever used that one), he wanted us to kinda stand at attention when he passes us or walked into the room, he renamed the things we did as part of our job as “orders” or “commands” or “duties”, we had a briefing every shift change which left the entire store empty of staff meaning the store stood still for about 30 mins where he would throw his weight around (one briefing he called my shift “soldiers”) and tell us how he has received “orders” from “central command” ( the GM) before then giving us our “orders” being moved to different sections was labelled “redeployment” and called the backrooms where the office was “ground control”. He would spend what seemed like 50% of his time standing and berating us all for “disobeying a DIRECT order”.
Worst part was, a lot of staff went along with this – called him sir, did the stand to attention thing, didn't piss themselves laughing when he shouted at them.
I have a ton of stories from this job if you want them but this is just an introduction to this guy.