I have been working at a struggling bakery for about a year. For almost 3 months, I was the only employee working front of house. Last week, the owner was in one of his fucking moods so he dragged me outside to fire me over a misunderstanding on an order ticket for a specialty cake (which he had not even made yet, but that’s really neither here nor there).
He was yelling about how I was hurting his business () and that he was fed up with me (). I cut him off and said “I’m fed up with you. You need to find someone to replace me on the double.” He looked shocked because I’m usually quite understated and rather meek at work. He said “if that’s how you feel then just go now. Go now and don’t come back.” I thought about taking him up on it and leaving. But at this point there I only have one coworker in the front, who I consider to be one of my closest friends. I had no intention of signing her up to hold down the counter alone like I had to.
I said “no.” He looked shocked so I repeated myself. He started some other bullshit sentence that I didn’t have time for so I said “whatever, I’ve got work to do” and walked back inside.
Everyone in the kitchen knew what he took me outside for and we were talking quite loudly on the other side of a thin metal door so when I walked back in and went back to work everyone looked pretty shocked.
He now avoids making eye contact with me and I talk shit about him pretty openly in a business housed in a 450 square foot building. Every task I complete at the place without his permission raises my self esteem a little bit.