Her Old Boss Was So Terrible She Quit Her Job, But Now Her Sister Is Dating Him
One summer ago, this 22-year-old girl worked as a waitress but ultimately quit because her 38-year-old boss was a nightmare.
Her boss was constantly in an awful mood and would be publicly nasty to her while putting her down.
While her boss was supposed to train her for her job, he would make her figure things out on her own, then jump in to quickly criticize her.
“He’d often keep me behind at the end of the shift to berate me further in private, giving me “warnings” over things like not volunteering to work extra hours, not wiping down something well enough, or for not telling him I was going to the toilet during my shifts,” she explained.
“I’d stay strong through this, then break down into tears in my car. If ever my smile slipped at work and I allowed myself to be openly irritated for a moment, he’d laugh and ask me if I was hungry.”
“Last but not least, he’d sit in the back room on his phone while I worked alone during the busiest parts of the day before telling me off afterward for not asking for help.”
She felt picked apart by her boss, and it was too much for her to deal with. One day, things were so bad at work that she had a full-on panic attack.
Her 23-year-old boyfriend witnessed it and was there to support her. When she recovered enough to tell him all the details of how bad her job was, he was shocked and upset.
He insisted she quit and report her boss, so she took his advice. Unfortunately, the company didn’t believe her side of the story and maintained her boss was too valuable to them and he had worked there for such a long time.
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So, nothing was done about her boss’s poor behavior, but she didn’t care because she was out of there and working to fix her mental health. She has since found a new job that’s much better, and her new boss is lovely.
Three weeks ago, her 27-year-old sister invited her and her boyfriend out for a drink so they could meet a new guy she’s been dating.
“She warned me he was “a little older” but that he was really sweet and to give him a chance,” she said.
Her boyfriend wasn’t available on the night they picked, so she went by herself. When she saw who her sister’s new boyfriend was, she was horrified: it’s her terrible old boss.
She couldn’t hide her surprise, and her old boss laughed at the face she made. It then dawned on her that her sister was aware of their connection.
Her sister met her old boss in a bar, and after a handful of dates, her sister showed her old boss a family photo.
Her old boss said something about her, and so her sister knew he was the guy who made her life miserable at her last job.
Her sister found this all out weeks before inviting them out for drinks, and that night was so bad it wasn’t even funny.
She was panicking while her sister fawned over her old boss and kept calling him a wonderful guy. Her sister had the audacity to tell her to look at her old boss in a new way now.
“My old boss just smirked and made backhanded comments about me (such as picking up a wine glass and saying, “See? This is how you’re meant to clean them!”),” she added.
“I know I should’ve stood up for myself, but just being in his presence again made me withdraw so much. What hurts most is I used to vent and confide in my sister about my old boss, and she’d agree that he sounded awful. I got home and called my boyfriend, and he was so shocked. My sister sent a text saying she thought it’d “gone well” and that my old boss said it was nice to see me.”
“We haven’t spoken much since. This whole thing makes me not want to be around my sister, for fear of seeing him and also because I feel hurt that she’d knowingly date someone who made my life so miserable. However, I obviously still love her – should I just try to deal with it for her sake? Am I being bitter and can’t see it? I think I just need some external opinions on this. How can I navigate this mess?”
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