Let me give you some more context
I’ve been with this employer for only two months.
Three weeks in I got Covid and was required to not return to work for 5 days. My supervisor told me “only bitches take time off for Covid, if you use the Covid pay the company provides you’re a bitch.” This was our first altercation.
Fast forward a few weeks, he notices I have a week off. He scolds me about taking time off being so new, I explained that this was a vacation I had planned and paid for prior to working here and it was already approved by my manager and upper management. Strike two.
Fast forward to today, my first day back from vacation. He aggressively takes me to the back room, scolds me about how it “hurts the business” by missing so many days, that I am lucky I’m still employed because they “accommodate my schedule” because 2 out of the 4 days I work a week I have to leave at 5:30AM instead of 6AM because that’s when my wife leaves for work and I have to be home to watch my two children, this was my availability when I was hired and I was hired with that availability.
He was screaming at me like a child. I was in the middle of speaking and he literally yells at me and says “IM FUCKING SPEAKING TO YOU SHUT UP.” After I explained that he has no right to hold any of this against me he told me I need to find a new position or get another job and that I need to go home.
I told him that’s alright, I’m not working for you any way. I’m not going to be bullied for 1. Getting Covid (went to the doctor to get tested since my at home test was not “valid”) 2. My availability which was accepted upon being hired. 3. Taking an approved vacation that I was not paid for.
This guy constantly bragged to me about how he’s “fired” so many people & to me it seems like he’s the one hurting the team more than anyone. I understand the frustration about me getting Covid but, it’s not like I meant to & it was proven by a doctor that in fact, I had Covid.
Am I in the wrong here? Or is the giga chad want to be drill sergeant of stocking groceries in the right?
I am going to be open minded to all comments, I need some advice.