When I turned 16, I thought it would be a fun idea to get a job and earn some cash. Turns out it was not as fun and adventurous as I thought it would be. I disliked my very first job. I worked at a pizza establishment where I, unfortunately, met the worse people I had ever known in my life. They were rude, disrespectful, self centered and quite honestly disgusting. For some reason I worked at this job for two years and finally decided to quit after a situation of workplace bullying. Workplace bullying is “repeated unethical and unfavorable treatment of one or more persons by others in the workplace,” (McCornack, p.A-17). This situation was with one of my assistant managers at the time. She was upset and angry with my manager and decided to take her anger out on me. She exclaimed to me in front of customers and other employees that I was “worthless at my job and as a person.” That was the final straw. I knew that I did not need to be at a job that bullied their employees and made them feel unwanted on the job site. However, that was not the one instance of workplace bullying that I experienced at this job. I had been cussed at, talked down too, and given tasks that no one wanted to do because of how bad they were such as cleaning the cracks in between the tiles. My other assistant manager would every night would scream at me about something such as customers ordering or needing his assistance with an order. He would cuss me out over things out of my control. I am not sure what more I expected from a manager who would come in drunk and high every night at work. Why did I decide to stay at this job for two plus years? I honestly couldn’t answer that. I do know that after that time there, and finding a new job, I definitely know that any job is lucky to have me because I am a hard worker and do everything to the best of my ability.
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