A very close friend of mine, and former roommate, started a business around this time last year and immediately he started doing extremely well for himself. I was asked to come aboard when expansion became necessary. Working with a friend should be the dream, right? Your “boss” is someone you hang out with regularly, it should be great.
Instead, he’s an absolute nightmare of a boss and it’s bleeding outside of just work. Some examples: harassing me for missing work due to Covid, harassing me when I got back from covid for being “too much of a pussy” to work through it, aggressively guilt-tripping me for missing work for my honeymoon (he was one of my groomsmen), and making comments about how he was gonna dock my pay for making HIM miss work to go to my wedding. We can’t even grab a beer after work without him pulling the “boss” bullshit on me. On top of that, I’m all but forced to work insane hours, and even though I make a decent salary it doesn’t come out to that much hourly if I break it down.
This capitalistic culture has ruined my oldest friendship and I am fucking miserable.