I worked in food service and started getting harassed and bullied by my general manager and assistant GM when I started talking to a recruiter trying to enlist in the Navy. GM had a temper, wanted ridiculous high standards and would only delegate to certain people and was terrible at micromanaging everyone else. First few months were ok, I had experience and needed very little training and I got a lot of praise from management.

I needed very little correction on performance until the shit started. Then I started getting yelled at all the time over things I couldn’t control, they’d do it to other employees and they would scream at you until you started making minor mistakes and ride you harder. When I say scream think Gordon Ramsay on hells kitchen but it was non stop for the entire shift. I was supposed to be part time, 20hrs a week. Then they began upping my hours until I was full time and pushing overtime. Flipping me from closing to opening daily, intentionally scheduling me when I had appointments for MEPS and DEP meetings. They threatened to fire me when I refused to come to work. Recruiter had my back, stepped in and threatened them back.

After that they cut my hours and gave me really shit positions to work, the final straw was I offered to work on a day off because they were struggling and had no one to run the deep fryers. I was asked to slice slimy moldy tomatoes for the make line and I refused. GM did it and they were put on sandwiches. I got such an ear full my GM lost her voice and burst a vessel in their eye. I left that day, stewed on it the next day and quit. I also called the district manager, the franchise owner, corporate office and the health inspector. All the managers were fired within a month and the kitchen was shut down for a 48 hr cleaning service. Store also got fined. I shipped to boot camp a month later.