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I work at a recycling facility, and I've been really frustrated lately. The boss seems perpetually angry always yelling and hollering, yet claims that he isn't angry and thinks this is completely normal and acceptable. He often addresses everyone as a group, and gets shocked when I speak up and asks why I'm so defensive and take everything personally and says no one else gets offended but they are just used to it and barely say anything. He accuses everyone of not doing any work which is a blatant exaggeration. Most recently, he was angrily hollering about how everyone was just standing there doing nothing when we had JUST finished the work that was on the belt. It threw me off because I had just gotten done with the work in front in me and didn't have time to notice if there was any more work coming up. When there…


I work at a recycling facility, and I've been really frustrated lately. The boss seems perpetually angry always yelling and hollering, yet claims that he isn't angry and thinks this is completely normal and acceptable. He often addresses everyone as a group, and gets shocked when I speak up and asks why I'm so defensive and take everything personally and says no one else gets offended but they are just used to it and barely say anything. He accuses everyone of not doing any work which is a blatant exaggeration. Most recently, he was angrily hollering about how everyone was just standing there doing nothing when we had JUST finished the work that was on the belt. It threw me off because I had just gotten done with the work in front in me and didn't have time to notice if there was any more work coming up. When there is nothing on the belt, I will usually start emptying bins and picking up, and once that's done I'll go downstairs and look for something to do. I could see if we had been standing there for an extended period of time without looking for anything to do, but that wasn't even the case so it threw me off. I guess I stated in a low volume rather than speaking loudly, which I have before and he always is shocked that I'm even responding when he's addressing the entire group and I speak for myself. But because I said it low, he said I was mumbling under my breath “like a woman”. I said I was going to go home, and he asked why I have to go home whenever someone says something I don't like. This was in reference to a previous incident the day before when I had an issue with another coworker. This guy has snapped on me like four or five times, and the recent thing was he was addressing someone else and I wasn't sure who he was addressing or exactly what he was saying at first. He was standing right next to me and I simply said “what?” and then he bites my head off in a disparaging tone “I WASN'T TALKING TO YOU! WHY ARE YOU SO QUICK TO THINK EVERYONE IS TALKING TO YOU, WHY ARE YOU SO DEFENSIVE, ARE YOU PARANOID?!” I stated that all I said was what and I wasn't even angry until he went off and kept going on about it. It's his tone and how he does not stop or let me even get a word in. I wasn't planning on leaving, but I had acted out of anger slamming things in the break room because I was frustrated at being talked to like that again. I thought he had been pleasant lately and was hoping there'd be no more problems. It fucked up my mental state and I couldn't calm myself so I ended up leaving early. So this was what the boss was referring to the next day. I didn't leave again and stayed doing work downstairs but I'm just really sick of it. Should I just not be bothered? Am I wrong? This type of thing seems to be normalized, and I seem oversensitive for not just accepting it silently. It doesn't seem right to me.

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