This is a long one, growing up nobody in my family had a BA degree, with the exception of a Grand-Uncle In-law. We were taught to revere this man. He ran a small insurance company, which I got to work on by accident. Why by accident? Glad you asked! My uncle was like the father in the TV Show Succession, in fact I’ve had to pause that show many times cause it remembers me too much of him.
OK, when he was 70 he told his oldest son he was retiring and wanted him to become President of the firm. The guy started to take steps for the transition and his dad DIDN’T like it! So my uncle decided to not retire and fired his son and all his team. We were still in high school but were brought in through Internship arrangements to help.
At some point my uncle installed cameras to monitor employees activity. He fired an employee because she did some extreme kissing in an office (a video he watched like 20 times). He would sit in front of the cameras at 5 pm and say “Look at them, the clock strikes 5 pm and they run like rats.” Bro its their hour to leave!
Years down the road he was harassing one of the female employees And I told him to stop doing it that he could be sued. He decided to call all our family and say he was worried I didn’t know how to be a man.
I left the company some days later with a nervous breakdown (which he used to his advantage) and an ear infection that pinched one of my facial nerves and made it impossible for me to move half of my face.
I promised that I would never tolerate such treatment before.