I work at a grocery store. I’m usually in one department but I only get 4 days/week there, so I do 1 day/week in the helper clerk department, pushing carts, putting returned items back, sweeping, that sort of thing. Due to my position in my main department, I never really see the assistant store manager or speak to her unless I’m doing a helper shift, so I never fully understood until now why the other helper clerks complained about her so much.
This lady is on the weirdest power trip I’ve ever witnessed! Yesterday she stops me in the middle of putting items away to come help her clean up some spilled soda and move some broken pallets. It’s chill. She then proceeds to just stand over me like a foot away and watch me silently as I wipe up the soda on the ground by myself. I’m using shitty paper towels cause that’s all I had on hand so it takes a minute and she just watches me the whole time! She even says some “you missed a spot” bullshit I almost sucker punched her in her gut.
Apparently she does this a lot because the other helpers complain about having to clean up every little mess she makes while she stands and watches. She doesn’t need the help as much as she just wants to make someone else do it because she can.
The only way I kept from exploding was to pretend she was my Mommy Mistress and I was her slave or something because that was the exact energy of it. She had other shit to do but she stood there over me until I was gone before getting back to it.
Man I’m so lucky cause this sort of shit is just funny to me. How miserable do you have to be to treat people like that every day? It’s just bizarre.