u/Objective-Pizza8207

I think my boss is trying to get me to quit by sabotaging me

Throwaway account because I'm worried about causing more problems for myself than necessary but I don't know what else to do.

For context, within the last year, I transferred to a new store that was opening in a different state to help myself move up as well as create a better life for my spouse and I. Moving has caused me to leave all of my friends and family behind but I've met new people that I do enjoy being around and I did have two other coworkers who transferred with me thankfully.

During the store opening, we all noticed that there are certain people who are "in charge" constantly (me being one of them), which was weird since the actual store manager was in the building during these times, but they did not want to be bothered since we didn't have an assistant store manager yet. Trying to be helpful, I finally take over doing my department's schedules so when I hand in my first schedule, I ask "do we have an MOD calendar?" I'm told no, so I just schedule myself for about 3 closings to be safe.

Direct quote after I handed in my schedule: "Oh, honey, you don't do your schedule, I do it."

Which confused me since I transferred from another store and into the exact same role and department I was already in and I used to do my own schedule. I brush it off, thinking that we are a new store and it's busy, so maybe they just needed to be in control of our schedules to make sure there was always someone in charge at all times.

We are now past grand opening and the holiday season and into the new fiscal year and we are still not in control of our schedules. This is a corporate policy for us to do our own schedules, but our store manager is refusing to allow us to have control over them.

Besides that, once a week we have price changes happening and I have been scheduled to close for weeks at a time on that day. I did state before that it made it harder and was blown off. I have a therapy appointment that I go to once a week, same day, I'm now being scheduled during that time as well at work. The manager knows.

And now that I am fully staffed, I have no full way of training my people properly for price changes without constantly being interrupted because when you do a closing shift, you are automatically MOD.

I also did discover that this manager was not the one that approved our transfer. Normally both store managers need to agree, but it went through at a corporate level since they refused to do it, which makes it seem like they did not want us here at all for some reason.

Am I just reading too much into these actions? Or am I being treated badly so I quit? Should I look for a different job since this feels like a hostile work environment or step down maybe to remove the target from my back? I love my job and the company I work for, this manager is just absolutely awful and I don't know what to do anymore.

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u/Objective-Pizza8207 — 11 days ago