young&overworked
New member
NYC
I was working at a small clinical office, my manager is my uncles wife, and her employees are her sister-in-law and her son. Originally getting the job everything was great. I learned a lot and I made the office over 5k in 6 months.
Now, my manager seemed to like me. She would always compliment me on my customer service and talk about how much profit I made etc.
Then she hired her son in place of a previous employee,(that she had yelled at publicly in front of patients, and chased out the building, while patients recorded.)
Her son clearly didn't like me, he consistently belittled me in the workplace by calling me stupid, and created entire ordeals over slight mistakes in food/drink orders that I offered to go get each time I went on break.
My other co-worker began distancing herself from me and was constantly nitpicking each job I executed, and they both talked about me amongst eachother each time I walked away from my desk. Not in a secretive way, in a highschool petty way.
Here's where it begins:
I was late on this day to work and my manager called me screaming at me and I was taken aback because I have really bad anxiety and it was overwhelming (especially because it was a day we had no patients) when I enter the workplace she tells me put my belongings down and to come into her office.
As I entered, she began screaming at me about being late. She kept getting in my face and I felt really overwhelmed (especially because this was someone I had come to trust, my mistake.) I asked her to stop and she didn't, she wouldn't let me speak at all. I'm a very passive person and I wasn't sure of what to do in that moment at all, so I get up and say "I can't take this". She says "good" and I gather my belongings while she's following me out, claiming she's recording me. I was very nervous and holding many things and I end up tripping over my coat and slipping down the stairs. She then proceeded to scream at me saying she's going to call the police.
I was so shocked and confused and I have never had this happen in a work environment.
She then proceeded to call my mother, and after becoming concerned and questioning her about what happened, she called my mom a derogatory slur and called me a liar. She has not answered any texts/calls since then.
I did email her a lengthy apology, because it was the right thing to do I assumed. I ended it asking if she was firing me.
She replied claiming that I am not fired and that I said "I quit" which, I did not. She also decided to bring up many personal secrets as well as false accusations that had no business being put on a work-related email thread.
I then replied saying I did not say "I quit", I said "I can't take this," but she continued to deny that in the thread and claimed the "whole office" heard me (referring to her son and sister-in-law.)
This whole situation has me lost and confused, now it's two weeks later and I still didn't receive my pay for that week I worked. It was the holidays, so I assumed it would come later, but I see nothing on my Paychex app. I emailed her in regards to this (to her work email, which she in constantly active on) and she never responded.
I'm not sure where I should go with this, I didn't want to file a claim because I was personally connected to all of my co-workers on a familial level but it doesn't feel fair.
Also, I left out many triggering details, but she really got personal and unprofessional in her emails.
If anyone can help with advice on what to do. I deserve my pay for that week, and i don't think I was rightfully terminated. I didn't quit, I never signed any papers stating I was quitting. I've never gotten written up or signed any papers stating I was being written up. I also have text transcripts to prove each time I was on time/early/late. (As well as each time they sent me to get coffee for them.)
-Young&overwhelmed*
I was working at a small clinical office, my manager is my uncles wife, and her employees are her sister-in-law and her son. Originally getting the job everything was great. I learned a lot and I made the office over 5k in 6 months.
Now, my manager seemed to like me. She would always compliment me on my customer service and talk about how much profit I made etc.
Then she hired her son in place of a previous employee,(that she had yelled at publicly in front of patients, and chased out the building, while patients recorded.)
Her son clearly didn't like me, he consistently belittled me in the workplace by calling me stupid, and created entire ordeals over slight mistakes in food/drink orders that I offered to go get each time I went on break.
My other co-worker began distancing herself from me and was constantly nitpicking each job I executed, and they both talked about me amongst eachother each time I walked away from my desk. Not in a secretive way, in a highschool petty way.
Here's where it begins:
I was late on this day to work and my manager called me screaming at me and I was taken aback because I have really bad anxiety and it was overwhelming (especially because it was a day we had no patients) when I enter the workplace she tells me put my belongings down and to come into her office.
As I entered, she began screaming at me about being late. She kept getting in my face and I felt really overwhelmed (especially because this was someone I had come to trust, my mistake.) I asked her to stop and she didn't, she wouldn't let me speak at all. I'm a very passive person and I wasn't sure of what to do in that moment at all, so I get up and say "I can't take this". She says "good" and I gather my belongings while she's following me out, claiming she's recording me. I was very nervous and holding many things and I end up tripping over my coat and slipping down the stairs. She then proceeded to scream at me saying she's going to call the police.
I was so shocked and confused and I have never had this happen in a work environment.
She then proceeded to call my mother, and after becoming concerned and questioning her about what happened, she called my mom a derogatory slur and called me a liar. She has not answered any texts/calls since then.
I did email her a lengthy apology, because it was the right thing to do I assumed. I ended it asking if she was firing me.
She replied claiming that I am not fired and that I said "I quit" which, I did not. She also decided to bring up many personal secrets as well as false accusations that had no business being put on a work-related email thread.
I then replied saying I did not say "I quit", I said "I can't take this," but she continued to deny that in the thread and claimed the "whole office" heard me (referring to her son and sister-in-law.)
This whole situation has me lost and confused, now it's two weeks later and I still didn't receive my pay for that week I worked. It was the holidays, so I assumed it would come later, but I see nothing on my Paychex app. I emailed her in regards to this (to her work email, which she in constantly active on) and she never responded.
I'm not sure where I should go with this, I didn't want to file a claim because I was personally connected to all of my co-workers on a familial level but it doesn't feel fair.
Also, I left out many triggering details, but she really got personal and unprofessional in her emails.
If anyone can help with advice on what to do. I deserve my pay for that week, and i don't think I was rightfully terminated. I didn't quit, I never signed any papers stating I was quitting. I've never gotten written up or signed any papers stating I was being written up. I also have text transcripts to prove each time I was on time/early/late. (As well as each time they sent me to get coffee for them.)
-Young&overwhelmed*