Keep in mind, I (19f) am his only able bodied employee. He has past injuries, my grandpa should be retired, and my mom and sister do office work only.
I'll start with last week since that's the most recent time this has happened.
I get to work on Monday, tired as usual, and set up to get to work in this person's house. I get about half of the job done before severe vertigo sets in. I take a break in the trailer, throw up, almost black out, and get sent home around noon. I go home and take a hard nap to wake up to the same vertigo and muscle pain, like a migraine. It lasts for the rest of that night.
I take Tuesday off because the vertigo doesn't stop and the walk in clinic closed before my boyfriend got home.
Wednesday morning I wake up (late) to a call from dad, it's 8:00 and we start at 8:30 but I haven't responded to his “how are you feeling this morning” text. The first thing I hear is “you aren't communicating, if you don't communicate I can't trust you”. I explained to him that I missed alarms and such and still am unable to work.
Hooo boy did he not like that. He said a lot of very horrid things to me, summed up as “I don't trust you. You aren't trying hard enough. You aren't worth what I pay you. I don't trust you.”; but my favorite is “you don't know how many people would've fired you by now”.
I doubled his profits last year. I run his new construction. I make sure his contractors are happy and I make sure everything gets done before the sheetrock is in. AND I'm at every single job he does in existing houses. Everyday.
At that point I was done so I said I couldn't make it and hung up. I assume he called my mom because she called me two minutes later trying to apologize for his actions, I did not accept it. Then he texted me an apology, I did not accept it.
Wednesday afternoon my boyfriend took me to the walk in, I got a script to deal with the symptoms, and we went to my parents house to pick up some stuff. My dad wants to talk. He apologizes, I did not accept it.
This is a reccuring behavior. It pushed my sister away, she's quitting soon. It's pushing me away, I'm quitting the next time it happens. I'm setting boundaries soon, I just have to think about how far to take it and what to do if they are broken.