I'm one of two employees working for a small business owner. There needs to be more of us, but it's almost like he doesn't WANT to hire anyone else.
So I work in a small, local gun shop and have been since about halfway through last september. I've had hiccups with some of my coworkers but overall it hasn't been them who's the problem, it's my boss.
If you know anything about the gun market right now, it's pretty bad. A lot of businesses have started suffering because of it, the one I work for included. I'm not sure if my boss has always been this way but he's really started to show his true colors. After at least half of the sales he makes he says something along the lines of "thank you for helping keep the lights on." Desperate little quips like that that make him seem like a kicked down puppy. Then he berates the one coworker I have left, who I actually like working with, and sometimes myself too. Both him and I have taken kicks in our paychecks' nuts to "help him stay in business." My coworker has been there for about 4 years and has constantly been shafted. Ever since this most recent assistant manager was let go due to "not having enough business in the store," it feels like he's gone off the deep end. Before said assistant manager was let go I started noticing some GLARING signs of immaturity for a 60 year old man. He once threw a pen into a corner in front of a customer quietly shouting "we're gonna go out of BUSINESS." He doesn't communicate at ALL, every little thing he just lets bottle up until it comes out angry. He tells people that "honesty is the best policy" and that he's honest too, and then proceeds to lie to their faces. He recently told a customer that we lost money on a gun we ordered for them, even though he's the one who gave them the price and I even double checked, we made about $80 on a $375 gun. He threw a double action otf knife worth about $140 at a metal shelf recently when it wasn't working as intended. I've noticed that he sniffles a LOT, like way more than people with allergies (I would know, my allergies are terrible). In the past few days he's been up and down and up and down, nonstop. Yesterday in particular scared me. One minute he would be all happy and smiles, next thing he would be so passive aggressive that I'm surprised he didn't explode. Ever since it went down to just the three of us he's been working six days a week, and on the seventh he's still doing things related to work at home, and it's clearly taking a toll on him. I'm scared to go to work because of him, I'm having nightmares about work and they're all about him. I'm looking for a different job and have been for months, but the market where I live is pretty terrible. Please, for the love of all that's good in this world, what do I do?