I've worked in this deli for almost 5 years now. Started as a dishwasher and made my way to manager. I've loved it for a long time, just an independently run shop in a small town but the owner paid decently and treated the staff well. He took care of us during covid as best he could.
Recently I was replaced as manager. I understood why, I've never been a manager before and was really struggling to keep everything together. My wage did not change and I was meant to be included in any decisions the new boss might make.
For a tiny bit of context, this is a small very conservative town in far north Idaho. However, the deli was an oasis for me, I'm a young trans guy and several of my crew are trans or nonbinary. A few of them use they/them pronouns and everyone respects that. No one in my crew is older then 25 and we get along so well.
The new manger is a 50ish year old women. She very clearly doesn't like the fact she was asked to respect the crews pronouns and has been targeting me in particular. I tried to follow her new plan for the deli but everything I did was picked apart by her and intensely criticized.
She has informed me we will be having a meeting tomorrow and I will not be on the schedule until we have it.
I've never been one to stand up for myself. Severe social anxiety has turned me into a doormat but I'm not taking it any longer. I fully expect to lose my job tomorrow but I will not be treated like this.
I don't really know why I'm posting this. I'm extremely anxious about the whole thing. If anyone has gone though anything similar and has any advice I'd love to hear it.
Sorry for the long post but I needed to get this off my chest.