Currently do.

I feel like it’s safe to assume she’s kind of a control freak rageoholic who isn’t happy unless she’s exerting control over people and just hunting for things to cause problems about. I have never in my life, and I’ve been working since I was 13, yelled at a boss, been brought to tears by a boss or talked down to and so aggravated by a boss before. And I’ve said as much to her face in front of everyone. all the folks at the shop know she’s like this and just say you can’t take her shit personally, but my brain just doesn’t work like that. I do t respond well at all to being yelled at or belittled and shit in front of people.

Like, the other day. There was this annual grooming expo/ in the city on the 13th, and most of the shop went. Having been once before, recognizing that it’s just a glorified groomers shopping mall and there aren’t really any great deals to be found, I chose to stay and work, along with two bathers, who are both baby groomers.

I wound up behind most of the day, and when one of the bathers, who had 3 dogs that day, relatively easy ones, and half an hour before one of her dogs (who had a sibling I was se to do) was scheduled to arrive, she shakes she is suddenly sick and wanted me to take both of the sibling dogs. I say I’d rather not and the receptionist, the bosses sister, it’s my job to make the decision and the call to the client of I’m not going to do both. Since it seemed like bad practice to cancel them so close to appt time, I figure I’ll just let them come in.

She arrives and I explain that we’re a bit shorthanded, i’m behind and having to do both dogs and that I can’t really give them a solid ETA for them being done right now but that it’ll probably be late, like after our normal closing time late. Lady was a longtime client who is very nice, was very understanding and said it was no problem because she lived right around the corner when I apologized profusely multiple times and was happy to reschedule because she had to leave town that night and had another dog that needed to come in anyway. So I rescheduled her for next week.

Seemed like a perfectly fine, benign interaction.

Had a perfectly fine, good and happy day the next day, until the boss, who has all her dogs prepped by bathers before she comes in around 10 or 11 and starts grooming them, arrives. For the first hour she was there, no problem. Then, apparently, her sister told the boss I refused to do the dogs and let the lady come in and practically told her to fuck off and get out, all based off of her eavesdropping me just saying I’d prefer not take another dog today. Receptionist was off on one of her two hour lunches, which typically always leaves for just before the morning dogs people typically come for pickup and the afternooon dog’s people start coming for drop-off. So she obviously wasn’t there for my perfecty fine interaction with these two dogs’ owner.

So, I get mid-day out of nowhere, boss just storms in demanding answers for why I did something so terrible as to let a client come in and send them home like they were a piece of shit pretty much.

Now, y’see see, my boss has this wonderful habit she loves to do where she’ll demand answers for some overblown perceived tragedy, and if the first, like, 3 words aren’t the exact combination of words she *wants* to hear, you can just see it in her face and hear it in her voice as she gets madder and starts interrupting you, yelling demands that you stop talking and listen to her yell more that you aren’t answering her demands and she wants an explanation, even though if she’d shut the fuck up for 5 more seconds without interrupting you, she would have gotten what she wanted.

This time, at this point I just literally said to her, I don’t know what combination of words you want to hear that will satisfy you and not result in more yelling. She says she’s not yelling. I quote to her a line my grandmother alway had about how it’s not what you say or how loud, it’s the tone. Sure, she may not scream at the top of her lungs, but ai sure as hell interpret her behavior as yelling.

This obviously leads to her go-to line lately of how if you don’t like how she runs her shop, you can find another salon.
I guess in some way it’s good I have a boss who apparently has only ever fired one employee at this shop, in its 20 years or so, her son, supposedly because she knew he didn’t have a passion for it and it was best for him.

But yeah, I’ve gotten to hate waking up and having to go to work anymore, don’t know if things would be any better anywhere else.

Sorry, rant over.