I work at a restaurant and I have a pretty young General Manager (F25). She is very immature, unprofessional, and doesn’t do well under pressure.
We have a great roster when it comes to other employees from the foh to boh but everyone seems to have similar complaints about her. They’ve accused her of being petty, affecting people’s livelihood for personal reasons, and even racism sometimes.
I am usually easy going and very good at keeping it friendly even though she seems to get bothered by me not getting angry when she tries to “piss me off”. This could include asking only me to complete small annoying tasks and not asking anyone else, having a very noticeable attitude with me from the second I clock in, and refusing to schedule me how I ask. All I’m looking for is two days off back to back to get things done in my personal life. That’s my only request when it comes to my schedule.
The past few weeks she has been “mean girl” nice to me, which if you ever dealt with mean girls you’ll know what I mean. Being friendly when she needs something and otherwise her niceness seems very backhanded and rude. But I play it off because I’m having a hard time in life with my health, family, and financial situation so I really try not to put too much thought into her attacks.
I worked all last week nonstop because she kept begging me to stay to work shifts I hadn’t been scheduled for and had no time to prepare for so I asked for Monday off a few days prior to the shift. She ignored my request but I really needed to get something paid for my mom and my mom was on my ass about it too so I did it when office would be open next.
She was upset about it on Tuesday and gave me a write up, which I accepted with no pushback. She was aggressive at first but when she saw I was calm and just signed the paperwork she went back to “joking” with me.
Later on during the rush like a few hours later and completely out of nowhere she started slapping me really hard on my back as I walked past her. I was in between doing things for my tables and it’s not like a moment where we were speaking to each other or anything she was just standing there then started hitting me as I walked by.
I pulled away and nervously tried to laugh it off but while I was pulling away she kept hitting me really hard. My back started burning and I had a weird tightness in my chest. I wasn’t sure if it was because of how I contorted my body to distance myself from her slaps or if it was because she slapped the breath out of me but idk what to do now.
I am scared to go to HR because I have had to deal with them before at another job and basically made my life worse because they mostly focused on how to save their reputation instead of helping the lower level employees. So I don’t really want to go out of my way if nothing will come out of it. I think there could possibly be a camera there and I would really like to watch the footage because I want to see what prompted her to start hitting me since I genuinely was in the zone and just walking by.