Back in 2012, I was working in a reasonably respectable line of work. I had a lot of responsibility but not an awful lot of money. Weekends were okay - about eleven to twelve pounds an hour.
My boss didn't take to me from the very start. She said right in front of a client - "don't worry the next girl actually has some experience." They advertised - "experience preferred but not essential."
She also had a problem with my more reserved personality. She seemed to gravitate towards the more brashy women.
She was a bit of a tyrant, and was always suspicious of me. At a meeting she was talking about a clients family members girlfriend and she stared right at me while she called her "ignorant" and "I don't trust her." Well, it was because sometimes I used to speak for the sake of speaking to try keep clients at easy as no one likes uncomfortable silences right? I felt pressurised to put on a front .
My personal life began to fall apart and the strain must have been showing. I lost a lot of weight. I made a massive mistake at work. Yet one client hinted I should try my hand at nursing. My boss knew I had good qualifications and found out about my spell in the psychiatric unit in my town.
When I handed in my notice to flit town, I attended the last meeting even though I didn't really have to as I didn't have much time left to work. She didn't notice me and steadied herself to dispel some juicy gossip. "oh Laura's not here...." And I moved forward and I can't remember what I said but she started stammering and her henchman got up with a start and bolted. She had obviously told her about me and the boss thought she could get one up on me by telling everyone.
One of the other workers put the knife in me in the meeting before that when the boss announced that we would have to go through occupational health to maintain working expecting everyone to do it as it was actually voluntary. And everyone was like "what is occupational health?" and one polish lady fixed her eyes on me and says "mental health."
I honestly thought nobody had cottoned on, I thought I kept it hidden, blagging my way through but I guess people do pick it up, without knowing.

[seesaw]

(((SapphireRed)))

That is a really terrible situation. It does sound like your boss was a jerk. I don't know why bosses are jerks for some reason. I'm a boss, and I'm sure my employee thinks I'm a jerk. It's something that comes with the territory, I guess.

I hope the next job goes better for you. You don't deserve to be treated like that.

Seesaw

She was really conniving one time. Obviously the green eyed monster had set in and I was a bit of a reckless driver. After passing my test I never drove for a while so my parking skills were rusty. She deliberately parked her car close as she could up behind me and I had to perform a ten point turn to get past. She was hoping I messed up, but my survival skills kicked In.
I think she then told the client I had been in the ward as that client had also been in. Which is a professional no no.
She was forever moving the goalposts. If we got half hour and she went in and did it in twenty minutes she would reduce the time to fifteen minutes just to push us. So I didn't last long at this job.
Everyone was more preoccupied with another woman in our team who was having a mini breakdown, they were really worried about her. So the spotlight was off me.
I had cut down my pills and it was my final working week. I phoned the boss to say I wouldn't make that week as I need some unexpected blood tests. Because the weight had been dropping off me, I think she thought I had cancer and when I told her her voice broke up, all croaky and she gulped, guilty conscience.
She was such an idiot, one of my clients thought she had bought a million pound house, I couldn't have cared less. It was more like 300,000.

Before that I stared off on a zero hour contract with a private firm.
The y couldn't have organised a piss up in a brewery.
One of the office workers took a shine to me, found me attractive. They were married yet openly flirted me. It was amusing watching her rush around the office on my behalf, no thought just woosh, on it.
I had her number. Texted her while I had a bath and a drink.
But I left swiftly because, I got a better offer, and they pressed me to say which company. I said I didn't want to say incase I jinxed it (why? so primary school) but they thought they were smart and said is it..... and I just nodded.

They then changed their tune, and said, would I like to be kept on bank, incase it didn't work out and their were people who actually worked for both companies in order to amass the hours. "something to fall back on " they said when underneath they did not think I would last at the better company. I am not sure what it was that made them doubt me.

One woman hinted i was aspergers and thinking she was helping me read out aloud about getting a pet in a news paper.
Just because i was a pretty young girl who had been single for a while after leaving her fiance didnt mean something was wrong with me. And because i was intelligent and only had a mediocre job. I was actually gay. And bi-polar.
Thanks tinned macca tacca. Wheres the hospital? Ta jezza. The penny dropped when you said that. Ket

[jamesb]

I feel some sympathy, been there too. had to accept it was at least part my problem, to move ahead. look at it from a bosses perspective can help sometimes, it's not easy dealing with people, and some are better than others. I found better bosses work in 'caring professions': hospitals, rather than financial motivation

Better bosses work in caring jobs??
I beg to differ. When in hospital I met some real power trippers, with self inflated ego's, far from sympathetic to people who relied on them.
In my social care job, my boss was an utter cow to me sorry to say. Horrible from the get go!! She was a wannabe, who muscled to her position. She vindictively sent a letter through my door, with information on what occupational health involves. She said on the phone, in a superior tone "is it a flat you live in" the biatch knew fine well where I lived. Kept telling everyone I was leaving to do nursing. I detested being a carer didn't suit me at all. I was going back to education but I knew that nurses were overworked and underpaid and I could never act the martyr.
I was beginning to unravel and I said to an employee I was going to be my own boss. I said to another that she sounded like my mother, and I barely ever let things slip.