It was a late April morning and all I wanted to do was just make the best of an unpleasant morning with the deli manager present. Every time we were scheduled to work together, it turned out to be a shitshow most of the time. This day would be no different. If I just called in sick, I would've affected the entire outcome…
This is what went down. I punched in, and began to make sandwiches as part of my routine. The deli manager comes by and complains I use too much cheese and put his hands on the sandwiches removing the cheese and then walks away. Ok, I kind of figured he'll leave me alone. I was wrong when he appeared out of the walk-in cooler with an unopened bag of salami, which he flat out accused me of putting it out for the customers. I told him it wasn't my doing and that someone was playing a joke on me and he said “no joke” and it just pissed me off.
After becoming very enraged by the idiot of a deli manager, who just goes around causing problems for me I ended up telling a supervisor I was going outside. The deli manager heard this and was like “Really?” and tells me to go home, and I refused. After 10 minutes downstairs, I came back up and he told me to go home again and I told him I couldn't do that. He then raises his voice and says “YOU'RE NO LONGER EMPLOYED HERE” and then sarcastically said it was nice working with me, in which I got in his face and called him a bully. I should've punched him right in this face, but thankfully I just walked away. I was really angry while gathering my belongings. I also regret not having an exchange of words and telling him how much of a troublemaker he is and how he had absolutely nothing in his life, except bullying others and being a sad excuse of a human being.
I filed a labour board complaint because I was wrongfully terminated and was entitled to a week's pay. However, the deli manager tried to get the supervisor who witnessed the whole scene to sign a false statement, which would back him up and not accept any responsibility for being a jerk to me that morning. Upon being told this, I flew into a rage and it took a lot for me to calm down. Luckily I had found another job less than a week after my unceremonious and wrongful termination. Two of my coworkers out of the blue messaged on Instagram and told me that they didn't want to talk to me anyone and I figured the deli manager had something to do with it, but before I could tell them both how much of a horrible person that deli manager was and that he will be out of a job really soon they both blocked me. I had no choice, but to try to move on with my new job.
The supervisor herself called me, and we haven't spoken in nearly a year. She told me she was fired by the same deli manager after she had enough and called him for his bullshit and even told him that he treated me wrong and should've respected me as a person and an employee. She also started a new job, but took two months off of work to recover from the accumulated stress at work because of the bullying deli manager.
I did give them a one star review, only to be attacked and said they disagree with my one star review and told me to move on with my business. Again, the deli manager was behind that because I'm 100% sure because he does have access to the social media pages and chews out anyone who leaves bad reviews.
My goal is to have this sad excuse of a deli manager removed, but the owner praises him as a key employee, but I know the real deal and he needs to be held accountable for his smooth-talking, manipulating, and bullying behaviour.
The whole incident has altered my mental health and I haven't received closure. I'm definitely not alone in experiencing workplace hardships and how it affects me afterwards. It's really hard to respect someone who goes out of their way to bully you at work, coerce others into ceasing communication with me, and makes up false statements to protect his position as an unfit deli manager, who causes problems for others rather than being a team leader and setting the right examples.
The day where he is no longer with the company, I will count that as closure.