I've been working in a busy grocery store the past few months, it's been tough but my coworkers were some of the best I've had and it's unionized so I didn't mind the hard work.
After Christmas trucks starting getting delayed and omicron started making things difficult. I noticed my boss who I had been getting along with started getting more and more frustrated and started taking it out on his staff verbally.
He had made a few rude comments to me but I let most of them go as I understand he's stressed. Today I was doing a frozen order and with 4 hours left in my shift he said he wanted 5 skids done before I left. I was also doing this alone.
I calmly told him I didn't feel confident that I could finish in time, and that I hadn't taken any of my breaks yet. I wanted to take the situation and turn it into a coaching opportunity so that maybe I could get some advice on how to finish in time but he responded by passive aggressively telling me he wrote the schedule and knows how it works. We spoke a little more and then he finished by telling me that I was out here “dragging my ass.”
There's been so many nights where I've skipped breaks because I felt pressured to get things done, and so many nights I came home barely able to walk after doing 30 thousand steps or more and lifting for 8 hours.
I told him this was my last week and then went for my break. I was so upset, hurt, and uncomfortable after being spoken to that way, so I decided it wasn't worth working for him an extra week.
I cleaned my locker out, went downstairs and calmly told him I didn't appreciate being spoken to that way and that it isn't appropriate and that I won't be working for him any longer.
I don't understand why it's okay for him to speak to me like that in a unionized environment, and I'm upset because I feel confident that I worked hard the past few months.
But nobody deserves to be spoken to like that.