Psycho coworker had the mother of all crash outs today and the police were called.
Full disclosure, this all went down today which happened to be my day off, but my manager and assistant manager both called me to fill me in, so I think I have most of the details right.
I work at a crappy hardware store in a crappy, small midwestern town. I have, well had a coworker who suffers from serious anger issues in addition to being bipolar and having a massive chip on his shoulder. Every other day something sets him off which leads to him creating drama for everybody else there to suffer with. This week he had issues with another coworker who stood around and did nothing all day, which is funny because that’s exactly what he does when he’s not screaming about all the injustices in his life. He’s also pissed that he can’t get a dollar an hour raise that he’s continually asked for. And again, he’d probably get the raise if he actually did any work there to justify it. So two days ago it all came to a head which led to him walking off the job and saying he wasn’t coming back and moving out of state. The end of our never ending nightmare, right? Wrong!
Today, the other problem coworker who does nothing was fired. She then proceeded to message the psycho to tell him that my boss was talking shit about him, which he most definitely was not. My boss is nice to a fault. I’ve never heard him say a bad word about anyone. This set the psycho off. He called the assistant manager and made a bunch of vague threats about killing my boss and his family. So the cops were called and they eventually spoke to him. The rest is kind of murky. I know he’s been trespassed from the place. My boss put out a protective order against him. The psycho’s girlfriend also works at the store, and it sounds like he dumped her and he either kicked her out of their place or she left on her own out of her own safety.
He messaged me earlier today before everything went down and he seemed calm so everything must have all fallen apart in a matter of hours. I was one of the few people there who got along with him, but his constant bitching and ranting and mood swings were getting old and I was happy when he walked out two days ago. I just didn’t think things would escalate like this.