Anonymous Story Teller

If your to scared to put it out there, I’m here to help.

[spacylacey]

I had to interview someone to fill a position at a pet grooming shop, their resume didn’t mention any prior experience so I asked: Do you have any experience working with pets?

Answer: (very enthusiastically responds) oooo yeah tons! I was a chef for a year at blah blah restaurant.

Ummmmm what???? What does that have to do with pet grooming…. I don’t wanna know. I don’t think she understood what she was applying for.

And that night started my nightmares about eating dogs! Like wtf!

[spacylacey]

I once had my mother in law tell someone we only wanted her to move closer to be our nanny. Ummm we don’t have kids!

[spacylacey]

I dated a guy all through high school and a couple years after until I found him cheating on me at a dominos. Literally saw him on the floor of the office having sex and tried to tell me she was just cold. They were laying next to a open ended oven set to over 500 degrees. Mind you I believed he was in class, a medical school I was working three jobs to pay for. Fast word to a few years later and I decide to give him another chance, morning after that decision I see him yet again coming out of a dominos at 5am with the same girl. He kisses her and gets in his car. I Text him a picture of the situation and he says oooo I was just saying goodbye. My response was to take the diamond necklace he gave me and give it to my little brother for his new girl friend and told him to fuck off. A year later I had met my husband and moved across the country with him. A few days before our wedding he tried to tell my husband I was cheating on him with him in the beginning of our relationship. My husband didn’t believe him. He had no idea we live on opposite sides of the country…….Moral of the story cheaters gonna cheat no matter how good you are to them.

[spacylacey]

My family spent all month talking about where to take a vacation. I asked them to come visit me and I’m told, “ we can’t, your sisters to much of a mess” …… find out they left for northern CA.

[spacylacey]

I had a manager ask me to retype all the owners clients into a private bar drive she brought so that once she locked the owner out of her business she wanted to make sure she could steal all the clients so the owner wouldn’t have jack. She said she even already spoke to the property management about stealing the location.

[spacylacey]

I once was interviewing for a job and the manager told me she owned the business and I wouldn’t be hired unless I was republican and believed in Trump. She told me if I wasn’t she couldn’t hire me because it wouldn’t work.

[spacylacey]

I once had a manager tell me because I wasn’t on call 24/7 I wasn’t reliable enough for my job! Wanted me to do her personal finances, babysit her kids, fix her computers, grocery shop for her and clean her house. I was a pet groomer.

[spacylacey]

(Story was told to me, not mine, just told I can share)

I tortured myself by working at a place for years, that has an insanely toxic Manager, For less than minimum wage.

First the Manager tells me I need to break up with my boyfriend because he wont get me a dresser. We just bought our first house and barely had furniture. All of our money was going to moving and taking on a old house. Second she tells me three days before my wedding that my five year plan is stupid and I shouldn’t marry him because my Life will just end up depressing and be a disappointment. But I can gladly live with her family and nanny/be a maid for her rent free. ( her exact words )

Third while wedding planning she made me feel so ashamed for the choices we made, that her son wasn’t ring barrier, she wasn’t a brides maid, her boyfriend wasn’t my DJ, I wouldn’t use the decorations from her first marriage and the amount we spent was stupid for a wedding. She put down everything from venue choices, to family members, to even the way I looked on my wedding day. Told me I looked ugly and she wouldn’t have done her makeup that way. Than calls me at 1am on my honeymoon explaining how when I return I need to come back to working for them because they don’t have a receptionist anymore.

Fourth ( this was what made her quite, I just put it in the wrong order) when I had family members become very ill ( brother and father severely injured and dying) and I told her I needed to go be with them she told me she didn’t want to hear it unless their dead and I’m planning their funerals and that needed to give her my work schedule. While I was trying to book flights and get dog sitters ( already had left her messages and texted with her so she knew i was busy) she was repeatedly calling than sent a message saying, ”I’m trying to call you”

Fifth when I got covid and told the owner of the small business, the manager said I was a back stabbing manipulative liar who just wanted to stay at home with their husband because she already told me I couldn’t take time off. She was working sick so I had to too. She continued to work after giving covid to all employees and infected customers all week without telling anyone. We all tested positive so did our families.

Sixth when my husband didn’t quit the job he has ( because her boy friend quite) she started saying how idiotic we are, how his job sucks and is a horrible company, how we will never be financially stable. Our marriage was going to lead to divorce becuase of his job and our lack of what she called passion. Told me we should be arguing and throwing verbal jabs below the belt, that’s passion, our idea of sitting down and talking it out is completely unhealthy.

Seventh, Told me we needed to have a joint baby shower so I need to wait for her to get pregnant before I do. That no one she knows will spend the same amount of money on her. And that my expectations for my life are to high. I was going to be disappointed becuase I planned to have a baby within the next year or so And it just won’t happen For me. Now there are many other smaller situations like telling me I needed do my zoom therapy sessions in front of her, and so many employees that also quit because of this lady but these are the ones that effected me The most.

Point of the story is I was an Idiot to remain at that job regardless of the loyalty that I felt for coworkers and the owner. Needless to say I never returned after that! Do yourself a favor, if a boss/manager seems toxic and makes you regret work and life choices, puts you down and makes you feel horrible about yourself, you don’t need that in your life. Walk away! -anonymous