I work for a small company with just 2 employees. We work extremely hard over very long hours and will often go a month without a single day off- if we do get a day off it is only a Sunday. The job is arguably dangerous and in all honesty our pay doesn’t reflect these things.
We both put our all into the job and without sounding too arrogant (and still appreciating people do have days where they aren’t 100% efficient) we do a good job.
The issue is our boss speaks to us like we’re literal dogs. He barks one word orders at us even in front of clients and shows very little respect for us. He never tells us we’ve done a good job (which a lot of bosses in the same industry will take opportunities to do) or offers constructive criticism to help us learn but is very quick to tell us things we have done wrong. By wrong I mean silly little things that don’t actually matter… ironically he’s not bothered about things that actually do. It is usually over things we already know and know how to do but are yet to get to it/ are doing it a slightly different way to how he would but would still get the same result.
Earlier he was speaking to me like I was a bit of sh** on his shoe in front of about 20 people whilst I was presenting something to them.
people have picked up on this and the lack of appreciation he shows for us both.
I love my job- if I didn’t I wouldn’t be able to put the hours in I do but earlier I genuinely felt like shoving him the product and telling him to do it himself if I’m that useless. What makes it more confusing is that at times he can be a really good bloke
I am fed up of being spoken to in such a way and was wondering if anyone has any advice… if I grew a pair I would love to approach him and professionally explain that I’m not happy with how we’re spoken to and how we are treated like we are just invisible “help” but I just don’t know how?