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Bit of a life update here,
I've been struggling with trying to find time to write. In the last almost year, I've been working a job that I originally really loved. I was genuinely happy with this job. But in the last two months, shit hit the fan. My floor manager quit, the other girl that was the keyholder quit within the next week, so I got "Promoted" to Keyholder. It was basically a management position without the title. I was working constantly open to close, whenever I was needed. Any time I wanted to take a day off, it was an argument just waiting to happen. He made me feel like I had no choice, and that I was the only relaible person he had. But that just wasn't true, we had an AMAZING team of women that were more than capable, and dependable. I learned so much about the man I was working for and thought was this great guy. From past and present female employees. I learned that he liked to use his status as a veteran to verbally abuse the women (Including me at the very end) that worked for him, made them feel like they were unworthy, whenever they would get sick and call in, he often told me that they were likely on drugs and too strung out to come to work, which I knew wasn't true but I needed the job so I never spoke out. Some of the girls reported to me that he was sexually innapropriate with them and that is when I started drawing the line. I wasn't going to let his behavior continue.
A couple weeks ago, I came to the realization that the key holder job just wasn't for me. It was putting strain on my mental health so I told my boss I would be stepping down. He sent me a text that he meant to send to someone else, pretty much laughing about my mental health and how he knew I couldn't handle it and that I would probably just quit. I went in friday and confronted him, Speaking up for myself and my other coworkers and I was fired.
Long story short, It looks like I'll have some time to work on some stuff while job hunting. (Continued in another post)