My son has recently got a new job, with which he brings a little experience from his previous job.
He got this job through old work colleagues who had moved to this new setting about 6 months previous to him. He has taken on alot of shifts at this place - 4 evenings a week.
He is 17, turning 18 at the end of this year.
Work has been a steep learning curve for him, because he has been rather sheltered in terms of the wider world due to having ASD and attending specialist schools from Year 7.
He has done well going to mainstream college, and his first job, and now this one.
He also works another job within walking distance twice a week alongside.
He's been independently mobile after passing his CBT but his motorbike broke and he's still saving to fix it. So I'm having to take him to work as it's nearly 9 miles away.
I went to pick him up just now and got a text on my way from him sating that his Manager had been a bit of a prick and could I come earlier, so I text back saying I was already on my way.
I then got another text 10 mins later from him, telling me he'd left work and was walking.
His work is situated on a crossroads with a poor signal and I'd no idea which direction he'd gone in.
10 mins later another text got through, I found him and all was fine but he was super stressed out.
The Manager had lost his shit with him, basically, and shouted at him to "fuck off and go home" knowing full well he's without transportation of his own and would be waiting for me, but being shouted at made him feel very unwelcome and of course angry so he felt like he had to leave the premises right away.
I asked my son about it and he said that a couple of staff members had an issue with the way he cleans the floor in the kitchen, but everyone keeps showing him differently so he just does his best.
Tonight they'd had 60 tables in for food so it was obviously stressful and tiring for everyone at work.
From what else he's said, the Manager is a bit hot-headed and arsey - nice one minute and shouty/sweary the next which I think my son finds confusing with the extreme inconsistency and lack of professional approach.
His first employer he told about his ASD to help himself be understood but felt when he applied for this job, that it wasn't necessary whuch is of course his choice.
I personally feel so angry that some 45 year old man felt justified in shouting at my kid to fuck off home. I'm angry that he made my kid feel so unsure in that situation that he walked into the night along dangerous country roads.
I feel like paying the Manager a visit and calling him out for his actions. I know that I have to let my son find his own way with this stuff, but it's so frustrating to see him trying and mugs like that being angry little shits.
I guess I'm just feeling protective but AIBU to want to do that?