So my old job had very bad management. It was restaurant and was kind of forced to be a dishwasher, because my boss only let women and gay man (no hate fyi just confused) be waiters for some reason. In the first few months I worked there. I was forced to do the whole restaurants dishes including kitchen prep dishes, by hand in a big 3 part sink. He would constantly come back there and tell me I wasn’t going fast enough and that he was going to fire me even though they would all just dump everything in one sink so the sink would get super fucking dirty, nothing would get clean. He would constantly threaten my employment in really passive aggressive ways like “if you can’t go fast, you won’t be able to work here anymore” or “do you even want to work here anymore”.
He would say these things at least once a week. One day he got mad at me out of NOWHERE because I offered to run someone’s food while they were talking to a customer (I was food runner that day too) and told me I should just go home. They called me a few days later and told me I wouldn’t be on the schedule for a while. They didn’t contact me for 4 months. And then out of the blue the contacted me again to work there like nothing happened. I worked there for about 2 weeks and my boss kept threatening to fire me for essentially no reason so I quit. Is it illegal for him to constantly threaten me? I feel like I was being bullied.
Edit: I want to add that I was NEVER formally written up for any of these things. Even when I was “soft fired”