The managers at my club are usually pretty easy to deal with...
and then, BAM! One of them will just blow up in your face and scream on the slightest provocation.
example:
Last night, our GM seemed like he was doing great. He was smiling and chatty and friendly with everyone.
At the end of the night, I got fined for not making the end of the night "showtime" and I went into the office to see if I could have it removed.
...I was in the champagne room where there is no clock and it is standard for a bouncer to come and get you when your time is up. Our time ended at 2:00 sharp --closing time-- I heard them announce showtime, but since sometimes they do it at 1:45 bar time or 2:05 bar time or any point in time in between, usually, I stayed with the customer because no one came and got us...
I told him I didn't know when it was two o'clock and he said, "bar time is always the same"...at which point i tried to explain that because showtime is variable, I couldn't actually know when 2:00 bar time hit
but he blew up in face and screamed at me. screamed. yelled "I HAVE A BUSINESS TO RUN!!! GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY OFFICE!!!!"
...and he'd been so outgoing and energetic and friendly not an hour and a half before...his new underling, "J" assistant manager or whatever, is the same way. barks and screams and yells when he feels like it. i think they might be on coke or something because "J" came in on an off night with a friend of his, who got dances from me in VIP and offered me like, an 8 ball of cocaine. he told me he didn't blow coke anymore and he just kind of wound up with and 8 ball and he figured he'd give it to someone who would enjoy it...yeah. right. I declined. I haven't told anyone about it.
so these guys don't really look or act seem like they'd be the kind of guys who blow coke all night behind locked office doors...I have no idea. that's beside the point.
The point is that this is killing me. I'm on edge. I never know when I'm going to royally piss someone off and really get it. I'm always scared. I don't know how to act. I try to show respect so they won't do it, but it doesn't seem to matter. One little slip up and I'm toast.
I feel disrespected, and I don't know what I'm supposed to do when they wanna charge me money but scream at me before I can say anything about it.
I've been crying. I put a new spiderweb in my windshield. I feel like shit. I hate this. They are so unpredictable. I hate this. It tortures me. Even though it's only once every few weeks, or even months and months between between incidents...I hate it.
I don't think I have any recourse. What can I do? This guy is the general manager, and the other one is a very close friend of his, he even took him on vacation with his wife!
I like this club, I really want to stay because when people aren't yelling at me all the time, it's where I'm comfortable and can make decent money without fines all the other b.s. I can't handle.
I'm an independant contractor, not an employee, so I don't know if I have any protection at all. I mean, is there any sort of protection for contractors like this? This is a hostile work environment, so since I work with him, is he responsible for keeping it un-hostile whether I'm his employee or not?
I can't take this shit. It really hurts. I should be tougher, I know, but this is abusive and humans aren't built for that. It's too much. My chest is tight, I'm anxious, all my muscles are tense, I keep clenching my jaw...and I was so happy to go to work last night! It really kills morale. I'm gonna go in and give it my best shot tonight and put that behind me and get psyched about tonight...
but really, it's eating me inside and i'm not sure if i can handle it.
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Okay, that was really long, but the bottom line is, how can I make this stop?



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