To try and get a sick note???

[pedrohedges]

I work in a small shop with 5 other people. Our boss is one of the most vicious people i have ever come across. She bullies everyone, especially me. It comes to the point where i am sobbing on a sunday night knowing she is going to make my week hell.

I have started to loose hair through the stress, i'm a bag of nerves constantly. I just don't know what to do!

I can't just leave, i have a family to support.

Would i bu to go on the sick and leave my work mates in the lurch?

I know there all on edge too. Please help me. x

What do your work colleagues do while she's assaulting you pedro?

I would expect anyone seeing that not to stand by and let it pass.

Go and see your GP. It sounds like you would easily get a sick note, not to 'go on the sick' and pull a fast one, but because you are genuinely ill to a point where your hair is falling out.

No one but no one should be made to feel that way at work. Longer term you need to move jobs, but obviously that isn't always so simple as walking out of one and into another, but there is no way you can go through this on a daily basis.

Agent they just put there heads down, we all need our jobs and don't want to loose them.
I wouldn't say she assaulted me, she just removed me from the place i stood.

Where do you work? A few of us will call round and wipe the floor with her

Get yourself on the sick for some respite, keep looking for another job and collect evidence for a tribunal.

I'm thinking about running a burger van. The thought of getting another job and ending up with the same type of boss fills me with fear.

She also said she hopes my DP (who was naughty 15 years ago) dies and she threatened to thump a customer the other day ffs.

I wouldn't be happy with anyone 'moving me out of the way', an 'excuse me' and I'd be OK to move myself.

You said she threw things at you too pedro, what kinds of things is she throwing?

Newspapers and magazines. The staff who had worked the previous day hadn't sorted them properly so she chucked them at me to sort. A huge pile! As i tried to move out of the way i slipped on a magazine and fell on my bum. I just burst out crying. She did apologise but i felt so stupid.

If the other staff member have done something wrong i get the blame. I was off on holiday the other week and the first day back i got a mouthful because other members of staff haven't worked very well.

I have to make all the drinks, i'm the skivvy basically and the one that runs around like a headless chicken.

She told me it's awful how i claim tax credits and not to have anymore children as it would hurt her business. WTF!

She sounds awful, get out quick!