I had a boss that would constantly scream at me, belittle me, and just was pretty much harassing me when I was at work or home. I made some dumb mistakes, but nothing major that really deserved what she did. She would send me page long text messages along the lines of...

How DARE you deny a delivery to someone? Who the HELL do you think you are? I know the owner likes you but he hasn't made you a manager so I am just going to have to have a talk with him about your behavior! (I was like flabbergasted. The delivery guy was walking out the door and a delivery order called in that would have taken him about an extra hour and he had to go to work so I said pick up only.)

One of the employees was running about 5 minutes late or so, and her prior person needed to leave. So I called her asking how far away she was since the other girl kept asking me... (this girl was a b*ch but that's besides the point).... once again another text message...

I need to have a talk with you. You are NOT a manager. You had NO right calling her asking her where she was!

One day I accidentally gave away a retailer price instead of customer price and the place called pissed off. A simple mistake.....

What the hell is wrong with you? You know I had to just spend an HOUR smoothing things over with that company!

The owner had sort of made me "defacto" shift watcher. He wanted me to make sure people weren't on their phones when he or the woman wasn't there etc. He said that was the role of the front counter person etc. So I tried to do as he asked. She fought me every step of the way. I tried explaining to her that this is what he asked me to do, I do not want to be a restaurant manager. No dice. I even got chewed out because someone told her when I was calling in the tips the servers would forget to put on card transactions, I said I was *manager*. I had tried saying I was just a *counter person* but they wouldn't do it for anyone other than a manager. I had no malicious intentions in it.

The woman was a complete and raving lunatic. The owner ended up firing her, but due to her behavior he actually called a few of her old jobs (which I am surprised he didn't prior to hiring her but whatever lol) and found out she was fired for being verbally abusive to the staff. I was young and inexperienced at the time and prior to her becoming verbally abusive I had warned her that the owner was talking about firing her and putting me in her position(he was a pig and flirted with all the women). Being 20 and dumb, I thought I was doing the woman a favor telling her the guy was a slime ball. I told her I liked her and I didn't want to see that happened and did NOT wnat her job. I had no intention of being a manager, wanting to be a manager, or doing anything aside from my job. I was in college and working there for money.

Nope. She got so bad that I ended up quitting due to her harassment. The last straw for me was when I got angry when I had did something wrong, she began yelling at me in front of everyone in the restaurant and told me to leave or she was calling the police. The owner was away on vacation at the time, and I called him on the way home crying hysterically. She had "suspended" me until he came back. He ended up paying me for all the time she had suspended me plus for the upcoming holiday. He was a pig in some aspects, but he generally wasn't a bad guy. I talked to him a lot about things and he was really nice to me (whether it was sexual or not doesn't matter, he was still very nice) In the grand scheme of things a job at one of the busiest restaurants in the county wasn't the best place for me due to my anxiety, and the entire experience was absolutely miserable. I was attracted by the pay but in the end I accepted the fact that it just wasn't for me. I am happy at my desk job now with a boss that is only slightly mean when he is annoyed lol.

That was almost ten years ago, and I have worked many jobs since then. I've never dealt with anyone who behaved like that...ever again. I have even managed a few people myself. She really had no business being in a managerial role. There is a right way to talk to people, and a wrong way to talk to people. Someone who behaved like that has absolutely no business managing a freaking paper bag, let alone a restaurant.