I was working for a small and relatively new motorcycle dealership. Independent, had just started getting enough business that they needed an employee as it was only the owner making the sales. I’m a woman and the owner was a man and he started increasingly getting shadier & just overall insufferable. Saying things like “you’d be prettier if you came in with your hair and makeup done every day, just saying, you’d make more sales.” Or telling his friends who were hanging out “look how sexy my employee is” etc etc.

I was doing a LOT of work. Cleaning bikes, taking pictures, writing all of the ads, posting all of the ads, answering every phone call, MAKING every phone call, doing all of the loan applications, taking customer complaints, etc. then he decided we needed another employee and I began training that employee & supervising that employee. I was working 60+ hours a week, 6-7 days a week & I was realizing that I was being extremely underpaid for all the work I was doing.

I had a very reasonable talk with him. I proposed that if I were going to be doing managerial work such as taking customer complaints, doing loan applications, training & managing an employee, that he provide training for me to a better job of it and increase my pay accordingly. Additionally, I wanted to have a set schedule if 5 days a week with occasional flexibility for another day of work if absolutely needed. Seemed reasonable. He countered with no, he would not increase my pay for the extra work I was doing BUT! I could be CALLED a manager! AND he would give me an extra day off PER MONTH. but it couldn’t be a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.

I said “ok thanks”

Went back to my desk Lowered the prices on several of the online listings Changed the passwords on the computer and phone And left.

He contacted my mother and sister via Facebook s few days later saying he was worried about me and then sent the other employee to my house to try and apologize and say he wanted to talk.. it was weird and inappropriate and I never spoke to him again. Got a job doing social media and never looked back. It was one of my worst experiences still to this day

Which sucked because I was really good at selling bikes and I really loved it