Stood up to my bully, now kind of worried about retaliation
This guy was getting under my skin from day one. I don't know what exactly why it is, that some people have to get off on being completely overbearingly condescending to others, but this dude was taking it to new levels. I've been in my industry for eons now, and I'm a fairly intelligent person. I don't know everything about my job yet because I'm brand new, but I can get stuff down pretty easily once I'm shown how.
For context, this a sit down restaurant, not super high class or anything, but relatively upscale. I come from a different branch of F&B (banquet serving) which is similar in many ways, but also quite different. My bully somehow decided that I'm not cutting the mustard and also that I must be an idiot (I'm not, lol). He knows nothing of my former pursuits, I imagine. But since the first day, he's treated me not only like a child, but like an absolute dimwit. When those kinds of people get these ideas in their heads, and they've seemingly found someone to abuse, they're relentless.
He is constantly on my ass about the little, stupidest nitpicky things that either don't actually matter, or is something I'm in the process of fixing. The bully acts like my boss when he has zero power. He will call my name repeatedly while scolding me like a literal child, making me so uneasy and just flat out self-conscious. He won't allow himself to see me for what I am, so thusly thinks he can treat me this way and get away with it.
Of course it's absolutely asinine and I was over it the first few times. He's not doing this to be helpful BTW. And it's not because I'm legit fucking up. I dropped a to-go box on the floor and then set it on the counter to grab in a moment to bring it to the trash it would fit in, and because I was convening with some guests at the same time. There was a method to my madness but he wasn't going to have that. Bully pulls the whole, saying my name until I acknowledged him, then chiding me about the box.
So I unleashed the kraken and went off on him. Can't remember my exact words, but it was something like, "you have seemed to want to be mean to me since I started this place."
Apropos of nothing he goes, "just do your job" or something straight up nasty like that. I told him he was always riding my ass for stupid shit and it makes me nervous. So I yelled for him to leave me alone. Then I told him I didn't like him.
He backed off and said absolutely nothing more, and after I regained my composure I readied myself to be dragged into the managers' office for a freakin' talking to. But I wasn't, nobody said boo for the rest of my shift, and I just avoided him till it was time to go.
I'm afraid of him running his mouth to someone and me taking the fall. Sure, I could've not said those things, but maybe he shouldn't have, either. Why did he push me to a breaking point? Do I even want to bring this up to mgmt and take the risk, being still very new?
Would you? Cuz I'm so unsure of things like if there are cliques and people playing favorites and what kind of trouble I could be in. But I wasn't gonna take any more humiliation, that's for sure. I don't want to be a problem employee, but I'm not gonna let people steamroll me unfounded.
Bleh. Thanks for reading my lengthy monologue, TL;DR I went off on the bully and it might've been a wrong move. Retaliation at workplaces shouldn't be a thing, but we know damn well skippy that it is.