Crazy Manager

Ha! I have a good story for you.

So the other day, it was coming near the end of my shift, and my particular closing job was to clean around the soda machine and the counters all around it. There were two gigantic drinks sitting on the machine, and I figured they belonged to a couple of the cooks. So since I didn't see anyone around, I moved them off of the machine and onto the counter so that they could pick them up, and so that I could clean the soda machine. I also saw some random lids sitting on the counter on the other side (it's shaped like an L, and they were on the other end of the L). I figured some server, in a rush, had left those soda lids on the counter. So I grabbed them and tossed them in the trashcan that was sitting right under the counter.

Seconds later, my manager comes by. "What did you DO!" she says. "W HY DIDN'T YOU JUST ASK! THOSE WERE MY DRINKS! I JUST WANTED TO GET A DRINK FOR ME AND (C) BECAUSE ITS BEEN A LONG DAY! WHERE DID THE LIDS GO!!! did you THROW THEM AWAY!!!! What's WRONG WITH YOU!!!" She kept going on and on.....to the point where I just couldn't hold it in anymore and I started to cry. "Couldn't you have just WAITED for a few minutes!!! WHY DIDN'T YOU ASK!!!!" (ok, all I did was move them onto the counter, and the lids were right on top of the trash....easily grabbed and rinsed off). Her daughter, another manager on that night, looked at me like "uh oh...." Her daughter bent over and took the lids out of the trashcan.

All the while, I am profusely apologizing and trying so hard not to cry. So I leave the scene while she is still yelling about it, because I wasn't sure what else I could do. I ran into the main eating room where it was packed with customers, and soon she was in my face again, yelling about how I shouldn't have done that. By this time I am crying, and its in front of everyone.

She says, "I'm sorry I made you upset, but you should have ASKED FIRST!" I am like, "It's ok, im sorry, i'm sorry.........!!"

I ran into the bar and started cleaning things up really fast, just to get my mind off of it..and IN SHE COMES AGAIN!!! She keeps going on and on! Servers come in and out in droves, and she is getting onto me in front of everyone...all my coworkers. Great....So here I am in full fledged tears and sobs and I'm doing that dumb breathing thing you do when you cry.....and I finally escape into a bathroom stall. She can't get me in there! It took me like 10 minutes to calm down.

Seriously??? Ridiculous. I have never had managers act like this before.....Now, I understand she may have been stressed out, and rightfully so, I mean, its a busy business and you have to please everyone. I'm not trying to dis her as a person by all means. But geesh.....