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‘Please can you not say anything, it will only make things harder for me’

-my Boyfriend when I told him about his bosses abuse

I don’t know how far this will get. But stories are heard.

My boss sat at a table waiting for me to walk into work and then sat me down and told me if the man I was seeing ‘became a problem’ I would be fired.’

-the man was also my boss

-all three of my bosses were sat there

-all men

I asked for a 50p pay raise because I was doing everything a manager would do. To which the response was a laugh. When I applied for another job and he gave me the raise. And a manager position, which i was never actually given, just added to a group chat.

I was called to come in early to have a talk, and i could tell by the tone on the phone it was bad and it was just come, the conversation began with i dont want to hear you defend yourself, you just need to sit and listen, i sat for half an hour listening to everything bad about yourself.

Half an hour of just being told i was an awful person. And being told beforehand i just needed to listen to it.

I later found out i was off sick that day. Despite having multiple cctv cameras. They never actually checked. And was also told by a member of staff, i wasnt apologised too.

During the pandemic i worked with a takeaway restaurant where i was the front of house and they all stood outside in the back.

I wanted to kill myself.

All middle aged men. And new years day i woke up to essentially being fired because he did not like ‘my tone of voice’ when i answered the phone.

I wanted to kill myself. They spent their days making fun of me. I will never understand why they didnt take my life seriously and how they were so willing to take my job away from me.

I always think to myself how much my dad looked after me. And how they didnt think i had a father at home. I think sometimes i should have brought my dad, just because he’s a real man, just because he is what they will never be.