My wife is a hiring manager in a small business of 20 people in the service industry. Though she's right under the owner in seniority, she does the same work day in and day out as the newest workers do, with some administrative stuff mixed in.
They interviewed this girl and she was great. 22 years old, some related experience, seemed excited for the gig. They wanted to hire her right out the gate but they brought her back for a second interview. As expected, it goes great. She asks for a little more money, they say sure. They ask if she has any questions and she starts tearing up and says just one. So they're like okay sure, what?
This poor girl starts bawling and asks if anyone here is going to harass her, abuse her or gaslight her. She straight up has a breakdown in front of my wife and her boss, full on sobbing. Like she couldn't even speak for awhile until she collected herself.
My wife tells me this and all I can think is, how god-awful of a human being do you have to be to push someone to their breaking point like this? This doesn't even seem like someone who's finally had enough – this sounds like complex PTSD.
This girl is 5 foot nothing and 95lbs soaking wet, too, so it pisses me off that extra bit because you know some douchebag is going harder on her because he knows he won't get punched in the fucking face.
“Nobody wants to work anymore”.. yeah, nobody wants starvation wages to put up with stuff like this. Holy shit, man.