Me (20f) and my co workers used to get a long very well. In fact since there was nobody except 4 people running this whole store, we would often confide in each other about our lives during these 11 hour shifts. However, one of my co workers (40f) has always had anger issues. It started when me and my friend worked an entire two weeks straight open to close and covered almost a weeks worth of shifts for her.
She’s the assistant manager, however she doesn’t do any paperwork, refuses to, and she is extremely rude to customers. She makes way more than anyone else there (even the manager).
After covering so many shifts for her me and my friend were pissed off as to why she was calling out again. We needed this one day off, in fact had been planning it for months. She called out at 2am the night before, and her reason was very vague, made no sense and if we were to pull the same thing we’d be told, “yeah whatever see you at work.” We were forced to go in again open to close and do all her work for her.
So the next day we weren’t really talking to her, kinda just going about our day noticeably upset. But we weren’t saying anything because we know that she will lose her shit on us. After about one hour of this into our shift we hear he screaming on the phone, calling us bitches, saying she doesn’t care who we are she’ll “fuck any bitch up”. And it made me furious.
She had been so unprofessional about everything and I wasn’t about to be blatantly disrespected. I then clocked out and left and said fuck this i’m done. As I was waiting for my ride outside she came running after me. She said “you’re gonna get fired for doing that”. And I said “you’re gonna get fired if you keep this up” but she misheard me and thought I was trying to fire her (?) so she FREAKS OUT.
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It’s gonna get dark here. She then decided to scream in front of a busy street all of my personal business. I do not mind to share here since by saying what she said to me you’ll understand how disgusting it was. She said things about how ugly I was, how gross I was. She mentioned the fact that I was poor. She said I was a failure at life and that I deserved to be abused at home. (Something that I told her as a friend when I came into work crying after being hit again) She then said I was a useless druggie and that I probably “liked being raped” by my grandfather. She was in my face spitting on me threatening to hit me with her fist up. She said she was gonna smash my phone cause I was trying to record. Keep in my my manager witnessed all of this.
I was silent for most of it, didn’t say anything about her appearance or life other than that she was acting like a child. But I was having a full on breakdown. I couldn’t breathe.
When i’m back at work I refuse to see her and be scheduled with her, since they DIDN’T FIRE HER???
However after waiting for her to leave the store so I can start my shift I get a call from my district manager. She starts the call off with, “Get your ass in that store and work.” she then says that I deserved what she said to me because I was “stupid enough to talk about my life”. She says that “we can’t just go firing people now” when I asked why she was still there. She said that me and my friend caused her to act like that because we were giving her the cold shoulder. She told me that I was to not see my best friend outside of work or else she would fire both of us. She also said i’m not allowed to talk about the wages. This is the same manager who was all in my personal life and tried to get me to break up with my fiancé multiple times. Even during that conversation she said, “You’re obviously miserable and that man is going got hurt you and leave you anyways”
I don’t have anywhere else to go, I live in a small town and don’t have a lot of options for a job that will accommodate my needs. I don’t know what to do I think this is bullshit. I just want to make enough money to live, to feel safe at my job. I make $10 an hour to do the job that someone who makes $16 an hour refuses to do. I have to do something.
The full in detail story would take pages to write so let me know if you have any questions.