I’m glad you’re giving it another go, you wrote the job itself is okay, maybe a little boring, and physical but okay. It seems like you’re stressed more from the personal interactions with supervisors?

I think establishing yourself in a new workplace is always stressful and with your very unfortunate sickness that sounds like it’s made it more so.

I’m not defending rude behaviour (because it sounds like this supervisor’s manner was rude) but she may have snapped because of pressure of having to cover shifts. I know where I work there is a big problem covering shifts. So it may not have been personal, rather her snapping under pressure. She will no doubt have experienced many staff who aren’t reliable and possibly she’s alert to that with any new members of staff until they prove themselves trustworthy and reliable.

What I’ve found myself is that in time when I became part of an established team and people knew me that interactions became a lot easier. People know for sure what kind of person you are by then and hopefully should therefore mean they are more accommodating around unavoidable absence (like for example I gave some flexibility and worked extra shifts so they let me leave work early for a funeral that kind of thing, tit for tat). So in my experience it definitely does get easier - and the paycheque is always something to look forward to!

Good luck and hoping your next week will be better and you’ll feel better too.