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Not sure if I even have a labor case but I’m also nervous to leave, help?

So a qiuck run down: I started a new job (I’ve officially been here 7 weeks today but most of this is focused on my first 4 weeks) and my boss was basically an absolute asshole from the beginning. Any slight mistake I made was met with name calling (i.e. “you made us look like a bunch of idiots” when I was told to send an email reminder for a class without being told about how the filing system works on my literal FIRST day) or belittlement and cursing (“fck, okay you're fcking it up. From now on you need to take down what I say exactly and repeat it back to me verbatim so I know you won't f*ck it up again” in response to me sending out links to Zoom recordings for Days 1, 2, and 3 in a Day 4 event reminder email – mind you everyone…


So a qiuck run down:
I started a new job (I’ve officially been here 7 weeks today but most of this is focused on my first 4 weeks) and my boss was basically an absolute asshole from the beginning. Any slight mistake I made was met with name calling (i.e. “you made us look like a bunch of idiots” when I was told to send an email reminder for a class without being told about how the filing system works on my literal FIRST day) or belittlement and cursing (“fck, okay you're fcking it up. From now on you need to take down what I say exactly and repeat it back to me verbatim so I know you won't f*ck it up again” in response to me sending out links to Zoom recordings for Days 1, 2, and 3 in a Day 4 event reminder email – mind you everyone on the email list already had these links, I put them in one email because I was getting a lot of phone calls, they already them, and it wasn't the full week of recordings because Day 4 had not yet happened, but this was the absolute worst thing to him and he “(doesn’t) give a shit what (the customer) wants” so much so that he felt the need to curse at me several more times).

I spoke to HR about the situation because she called me into the office, it is important to note that this is a small family run business where the entire family is involved so he has a very close relationship with the HR person. After I told her everything – as there was more than is listed here – she was incredibly upset by it and even said “this could be a labor case” which I had not thought about but also do not want to do.

When I was called into a meeting with my boss he told me I “need to stand up for (myself) more” and that he “does not want yes men”, to which I said “I've been here a month, there's not much I have had to say yes to yet and so far I haven't” because I literally hadn’t – if I was allowed to have input I gave my input, I am not meek nor quiet even as an employee.

All of this happened within the first four weeks of my working here and it feels awful to already want to explore other options. But the fact that the HR person called me in because she “could tell (I was) unhappy and stressed out” when she didn't know the half of it.

What do I do next? Is right to leave? Am I even justified in leaving over these things?

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