I was working a retail job for a few months and the only employees were the owners and another person who is my romantic partner. It was one of those classic crappy situations when the only ones working at any given time are the owners and one employee and they expected you to care about the job as much as they did. One owner and myself did not like each other from the very start and I went out of my way to be extra nice to her. First red flag of the job is that they would make me come in for job trainings on my days off for an undermined amount of time that sometimes lasted multiple hours. During the interview they said that these trainings were not mandatory but if you tried to skip them you got flack. I started to put my foot down and would not come in on my days off for a training about a shitty, minimum wage retail job so the owners started shit talking me to my partner when I was not there. At this point I was close to quitting and was just waiting for a solid reason and the owner I did not like stepped up to the plate. I was checking out a customer after helping them with a product and the owner comes behind me and says loudly “we all knew you weren’t the brightest so I thought even you could do this job”. I started seeing red but kept my cool and checked out the customer. I then proceeded to buy a bunch of stuff using my discount, didn’t do a lick of work the rest of the day or say a damn work to the owner for the remaining five hours of my shift. My romantic partner (their only other employee) happened to be taking a week off to visit family the next day and I was lined up to take all her shifts to help her out. I went in the next morning and talked to the other owner to explained what happened the day before (the other owners were married). I told him how upset I was, how I was quitting immediately, and if they ever want to keep employees he has to figure their shit out. He had the audacity to ask for me to at least help him out for the time my partner was gone which I declined. They had to cut the store hours in half as soon as I left. Funny enough they even tried to get my partner to stay when she got back by offering her a dollar more an hour. If you want to treat us employees like shit you better at least be paying us well or like just treat us like humans…….
Thanks for reading, I’ve been a long time lurker and first time poster in this sub