I’m sorry this post is going to be really long, I just need to rant and honestly need some vindication as well. Here’s some background info: my boyfriend works two jobs, one as a retail sales associate and another as a coach for a sport at a small local club specifically oriented around that sport.
Last night he informed his boss at his coaching job that he wouldn’t be able to make it the next day because he had a shift at his other job, and his boss lost it. He immediately replied something to the effects of:
Boss: Great! We don’t need you anymore. Thanks! We’ve only been losing kids since you started coming in.
Keep in mind this guy is disorganized to a straight up disrespectful degree. He doesn’t post official schedules for his 3 coaches at the beginning of the week, just asks them the day before to come in. He shows up late for coaching sessions, leaving the coaches and the kids waiting outside the courts for up to 15 minutes (since only he has the key for the door), which cuts into training time. On at least four separate occasions my bf has gone in for a shift only for his boss to CANCEL the coaching session and replace the time slot with drop in sessions RIGHT THEN AND THERE with no warning beforehand. All the kids are there already too when he makes this announcement so not only is he disrespecting his employees but he’s straight up denying his CUSTOMERS services that they paid for. Then he claims that he does it “for the business” because he won’t break even otherwise. I literally couldn’t believe he had the nerve to try and blame his dwindling customers on my boyfriend, who has been nothing but a model employee putting up with all this for months.
My boyfriend replied with “Sorry to hear that, I wish you the best in the future”, and the ex-boss replies with:
Boss: Good to know! In fact [Other coach] has 7 kids booked for the time slot after yours tomorrow. We won’t be hiring any more coaches like you in the future
I guess he was trying to make my bf feel bad because we both knew it was a total lie since the other coach has been on leave for the past week visiting his family. My boyfriend responded with a thumbs up emoji because at that point what can you even say, and then I made him block him before the guy could spew any more abuse at him.
I’ve been urging him to quit for the past month because his ex-boss clearly doesn’t respect his time (and he’s had a really bad track history with past employees) but my bf is still upset because he’d bonded a lot with a lot of his students and he genuinely likes teaching. When we’re not in our university town he coaches at a relatively well known training center for a much more well organized team and he’s been doing it for the past 6 years, so it’s not even like he’s inexperienced or bad at his job. I’m shaken up that he was treated this way and can’t stop thinking about how quick the ex-boss was to jump to insults and blame his business going down the drain on my bf. I know the best way to go about this is just to forget everything and move on, but I couldn’t sleep thinking about it and just had to vent bc my bf didn’t deserve any of what happened.