I tried to make my original post about this as concise as possible, but it still looked way too long (my apologies); I'll keep this brief, and I can just go ahead and explain all of the details in the comments instead.
Basically what has been happening to me is, I started an underwriting assistant and title insurance policy writer job a little over a month ago that pays $12.93 an hour for a small business in which 90% of my coworkers (including boss/training-lady) are all seniors. It's $14 an hour before taxes and approx. $12.93 an hour after taxes.
Not only is the workplace extremely disorganized (several files going missing, checks all suddenly going missing, and just Monday the boss sent a wire to the wrong customer with the wrong account information), and my paycheck is one day late at least half of the time, but on top of all of this, I think I might also be in a hostile work environment specifically because of the lady who has been training me since day one, who is also married to my boss – it's a family business – the receptionist is their daughter and sometimes the training-lady's granddaughter even stops by to work here too.
Anyways, assuming IF a constructive discharge were to take place, I'm worried that only documenting e-mails between my boss and I won't suffice and that it won't be enough evidence; today he surprisingly accommodated me by letting me work away from training-lady, but she will not stop bothering me – don't get me wrong, I know it's because we're supposed to work with each other on a regular basis – but I can't even have a normal conversation with her now that I've become too drained to stop walking on eggshels around her (which I've done since day one), and I'm going to try to e-mail my boss about this tomorrow.
Other than that, I'm not really sure anymore how to go about this at this point; I live in Idaho.
I'm really distraught and lowkey heartbroken because I've wanted an admin/office-type job like this for several months – and yeah, the pay could be a little better, but I really like the job itself even if it's a huge learning curve (I have no previous experience in title & escrow whatsoever).
Considering my boss is married to training-lady, I'm not sure if he's willing to help me much more than he already has, because there's bound to be some nepotism. I can only hope to god he does.
Miscellaneous note: This workplace is so disorganized that the boss also makes me clock in and out by writing my hours on a piece of paper and giving the hours to him on payday – and if you lose this data somehow, whoops, there go your hours – now you have to rely solely on your memory. Not sure how normal this is either. I'm not at all sure if he does his with the rest of my coworkers, but probably.
Thank you for reading.